Monster Hunter Wilds Ascendance - New Master Rank Release Date & World VS Wilds - Capcom Report! — Transcript

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1. 0:00The big question. The big question
2. 0:03that's so big it makes Lao Shan Long
3. 0:07look cute.
4. 0:08>> But I
5. 0:09But I But I am cute.
6. 0:11>> O- [snorts] O- Okay, sure. I I guess a
7. 0:13little bit. It was just It was just an
8. 0:14expression. It It's not Anyway, hello
9. 0:16then, my fellow hunters.
10. 0:20And I know what you're thinking. It's
11. 0:23probably along the lines of, "Okay, what
12. 0:26is the big question then? Oh my god."
13. 0:28Okay, sorry. I'm I'm literally about to
14. 0:31tell you. When is Monster Hunter World's
15. 0:34Ascendants going to release?
16. 0:39And that is the question because number
17. 0:42one, it gives us a date by which WE HAVE
18. 0:45TO SURVIVE UNTIL. BUT TWO, it's a very
19. 0:50curious one because until recently, I
20. 0:53was very much in the same camp that I
21. 0:56think most of us were, which is it makes
22. 0:59a lot of sense for it by the end of this
23. 1:02financial year, i.e. by April next year.
24. 1:06That's kind of historically the way that
25. 1:08they've gone and I would kind of
26. 1:11expected like a release date at The Game
27. 1:14Awards, the big main trailer with all
28. 1:17the eyeballs on it and it's going to say
29. 1:19like end of February, end of March and
30. 1:22we're all going to go, "Huh, yep, that
31. 1:24makes sense. All right, cool." But
32. 1:26recent events have kind of put that in
33. 1:29question and I've been asked a lot to
34. 1:32talk about this. And what are those
35. 1:34recent events? Well, twofold.
36. 1:38The first is that Capcom have as of last
37. 1:42week or so released their latest report,
38. 1:45i.e. how their games are performing,
39. 1:48their sales, their planned releases, you
40. 1:50know, the thing that projects to the
41. 1:52world, "We doing well, you should care
42. 1:55about Capcom." And you know, to their
43. 1:56credit, they are doing very well. In
44. 1:59fact, they're doing so well that it kind
45. 2:02of brings us to the topic of today. But,
46. 2:04let's not get ahead of ourselves, right?
47. 2:06First and foremost, this fiscal year for
48. 2:08Capcom is a record one. They are
49. 2:13experiencing record sales. Between
50. 2:16Onimusha, between Resident Evil, between
51. 2:20Pragmata's new releases, on top of uh
52. 2:23more legacy titles continuing to chug
53. 2:25along sales-wise, they are having an
54. 2:28absolute whale of a time. And you might
55. 2:31be thinking, "Okay, good for them, I
56. 2:33suppose. How does this really affect me
57. 2:35or Ascendant?" Well, whether we like it
58. 2:37or not, one of the major goals for any
59. 2:39company, especially a publicly traded
60. 2:41one, is to have year-on-year increases
61. 2:44to their profit. That shows growth,
62. 2:46which make everyone happy. So, if this
63. 2:50year, this financial year, has already
64. 2:53beaten last year, then releasing what
65. 2:57will be a
66. 2:58major successful title in Ascendant.
67. 3:03Remember that uh Wilds sold nearly 8
68. 3:07million units in its opening weekend.
69. 3:11And while that is only {air quotes}
70. 3:12grown to 11.5, which does show the kind
71. 3:15of rough uh period it went through with
72. 3:18performance and issues like that. But,
73. 3:21it also means that now in Ascendant,
74. 3:24where everything is looking very much
75. 3:26addressed and fixed as it got over the
76. 3:28title updates, you're going to have a
77. 3:30hell of a lot of people coming back who,
78. 3:33you know, loved the game but had to step
79. 3:35away because of those issues. So, you
80. 3:37can reasonably expect that Ascendant is
81. 3:40going to represent one hell of an
82. 3:42injection of sales. And if you've
83. 3:44already exceeded targets for a year,
84. 3:47pushing that back or holding off on it
85. 3:50until the next one to secure such a big
86. 3:53oomph to already kick-start the next one
87. 3:57is again, as much as it kind of doesn't
88. 4:00really matter to us who just want to
89. 4:02play the next Monster Hunter, not a bad
90. 4:04idea. So, the very fact that Capcom is
91. 4:07having a historic year is a sign that it
92. 4:10might be tactically preferable for them
93. 4:13to release Ascendance post April in the
94. 4:16May, June, July for a summer release,
95. 4:20which is also, you know, a nice popular
96. 4:21time for people to get into a new game.
97. 4:24People have a bit more time, etc.,
98. 4:26holidays, and so on. And while we're
99. 4:28talking Monster Hunter and success,
100. 4:31Monster Hunter World has recently just
101. 4:34reached over 30
102. 4:37million copies sold, cementing it very
103. 4:40firmly as the most successful Capcom
104. 4:42game of all time, and just generally
105. 4:44really cool to see. I think we could all
106. 4:46agree that World holds a very special
107. 4:48place for us. But, 1.3 million of those
108. 4:52sales happened this year,
109. 4:55this far out after World's release. Is
110. 4:59that not absolutely ridiculous? The
111. 5:02Resident Evil series is still clearing
112. 5:05as Capcom's most popular series
113. 5:07combined, but Monster Hunter is really
114. 5:10gunning for it, and with this kind of
115. 5:13longevity, you can see why. It really is
116. 5:17good for us because it means that
117. 5:19Monster Hunter is always going to be a
118. 5:21firm priority, and we're going to see a
119. 5:24lot of it in many forms as the years
120. 5:27roll around, which is always a good
121. 5:29thing. And indeed, looking at the Steam
122. 5:31charts again, Monster Hunter World is
123. 5:34still kind of peaking at 20 to 30K
124. 5:38players a day, which is again ludicrous
125. 5:41for such an old game. Wilds is actually
126. 5:44doing a really nice healthy 30 to 40,
127. 5:47which is really nice. That'll be that
128. 5:49Ascendants hype kind of getting people
129. 5:52back into it and keeping those fires
130. 5:55burning. But, basically, Monster Hunter
131. 5:57be Monster Hunting. But, outside of
132. 6:00this, well, there is another little
133. 6:02piece to talk about. In the report, they
134. 6:06have got projected releases of future
135. 6:09games. And the uh Resident Evil
136. 6:12Veronica, which just says 2027,
137. 6:16Mega Man Jewel Override, which says
138. 6:19Spring 2027. This is the bottom three
139. 6:23columns on this table. And then the
140. 6:24middle one is Monster Hunter Wilds
141. 6:26Ascendants, which just says 2027. Now,
142. 6:30this can be taken two ways. They're just
143. 6:32not ready to tell people that Ascendants
144. 6:35will be spring, so it doesn't say spring
145. 6:37here.
146. 6:38Or they have made that decision, or at
147. 6:42least made the decision to not decide a
148. 6:44release time frame yet with Ascendants.
149. 6:47It would have been entirely possible for
150. 6:49it to say spring 2027 here. And that, of
151. 6:53course, can be obfuscated because there
152. 6:54isn't a public release window yet. But,
153. 6:57on reports like this, they try and keep
154. 6:59it as accurate as possible. So, coupled
155. 7:02with this just saying 2027 when other
156. 7:05future unreleased games have an actual
157. 7:08window like spring, and the fact that
158. 7:11because of all of these sales, a
159. 7:13post-April month summer release is
160. 7:16definitely tactically viable from a
161. 7:18company perspective, we might actually
162. 7:21end up in a Sunbreak situation where we
163. 7:25get a master rank release around June.
164. 7:28And if we look at that perspective,
165. 7:31well, we got the release date for
166. 7:34Sunbreak about 3 months before it
167. 7:37actually came out. We got it halfway
168. 7:39through March, and then obviously it
169. 7:42came out at the end of June. So, if that
170. 7:44is the case, then we are looking at a
171. 7:46February-March release date
172. 7:48announcement, which then means The Game
173. 7:51Awards, which is undoubtedly going to be
174. 7:54the next big trailer, what might that
175. 7:57have? Well, the obvious one is a release
176. 8:01date for a demo, for a beta test like we
177. 8:04got with base worlds, maybe for January.
178. 8:07That timeline does kind of make sense.
179. 8:10We get a beta in January, then a couple
180. 8:13months go by, then we get a hard release
181. 8:15date and it's June, and then we get to
182. 8:17June and we're all enjoying some
183. 8:19Ascendancy-ness. Obviously, all of this
184. 8:22is just a bit of speculation coupled
185. 8:25with, you know, some logic thrown in
186. 8:27there, but it's certainly fascinating
187. 8:29and again, I can see why so many of you
188. 8:31wanted me to talk about it. The release
189. 8:34date of Ascendancy and how much we
190. 8:36actually might be waiting is something
191. 8:39that I think we're all thinking about.
192. 8:41And the cadence of news releases, how we
193. 8:44have gone a bit of a gap now between the
194. 8:47last trailer and what will be the next
195. 8:50one, if it is The Game Awards, that
196. 8:52level of gap between major trailers
197. 8:54would imply that we are a little bit
198. 8:56further out in a release horizon. So, if
199. 9:00we get like another showcase this month
200. 9:02in a couple weeks, and then another
201. 9:04trailer at The Game Awards, then we
202. 9:06might be looking at that February-March,
203. 9:08but if from this point onwards, when you
204. 9:10hear me say these words, the next new
205. 9:12trailer is The Game Awards, then I might
206. 9:15start to think that this all kind of
207. 9:17lines up and we're perhaps looking at
208. 9:19later into 2027. The bottom line is
209. 9:22though, none of this actually matters,
210. 9:24right? They are clearly cooking with
211. 9:26Ascendancy. Everything that we've seen
212. 9:29and the little bits that I got to play a
213. 9:31while back, I mean, it really is just
214. 9:35something else. And clearly, giving them
215. 9:38all the time that they need to make sure
216. 9:40it's perfect and but more importantly
217. 9:43performs up to standards so it can carry
218. 9:46wild success and then keep that going.
219. 9:49That is what matters and ultimately at
220. 9:53the end of the day it's going to be
221. 9:54worth waiting for, is it not? Like god
222. 9:58damn, there is just something just
223. 10:01about it. You can kind of feel it. I
224. 10:04really think we are in for another sun
225. 10:06break. But yeah, that's where it
226. 10:08currently stands when we talk the latest
227. 10:12in Ascendant likely release date
228. 10:16information. Let me know what you guys
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230. 10:22when your own predictions are or more
231. 10:24importantly when you'd like it to
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