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Monster Hunter World: Iceborne Game Ships 2.5 Million Copies, Reveals New Horizon Collaboration
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
CAPCOM began streaming a new video on Saturday to reveal that the Monster Hunter Word: Iceborne expansion game will have a new collaboration with the Horizon Zero Dawn game. The collaboration event will start in November. Monster Hunter World has previously collaborated with the Horizon Zero Dawn game in the past. The new collaboration will feature new quests in both November and December.
The game's free updates for this year also include the new monster Rajang in October, and a new monster in December.
CAPCOM also announced on Friday that the Monster Hunter World: Iceborne expansion has a combined shipments and digital sales number of 2.5 million. The expansion launched for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on September 6, and will release for PC via Steam in January 2020. The expansion features a new story that begins after the events of the main game, as well as new quest ranks, locales, monsters, moves, and equipment.
Monster Hunter World launched worldwide on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in January 2018. The game has shipped 13.1 million copies as of June 30. The overall Monster Hunter franchise has more than 58 million copies in sales as of Friday.
Sources: Monster Hunter franchise's YouTube channel and Twitter account, Capcom