{"id":296678,"date":"2025-02-28T02:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T10:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=349901"},"modified":"2025-07-01T15:17:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T22:17:59","slug":"monster-hunter-wilds-has-just-been-released-and-is-already-breaking-records-on-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/monster-hunter-wilds-has-just-been-released-and-is-already-breaking-records-on-steam\/","title":{"rendered":"Monster Hunter Wilds has just been released and is already breaking records on Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.softonic.com\/articulos\/monster-hunter-wilds-ni-siquiera-ha-salido-y-ya-apunta-a-ser-el-mayor-exito-del-ano\">Monster Hunter Wilds has taken the world by storm upon its release<\/a>, achieving a remarkable position in the Steam records. <strong>On its first day, the new title reached an impressive peak of 920,464 connected players, quickly placing it at #10 on the list of most played games on the platform<\/strong>. This launch has surpassed previous records set by popular titles such as Baldur&#8217;s Gate 3, Hogwarts Legacy, and New World, all of which previously dominated user engagement metrics.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">It has continued to rise even after its release<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At 10:05 PM Pacific Time, Monster Hunter Wilds not only made its presence known in the records but also continued its rise to #8, surpassing Elden Ring, which had 953,426 players at its peak. <strong>Currently, the title is only 100,000 players away from surpassing Cyberpunk 2077, which holds the record of 953,426 connected players<\/strong>. With the weekend still ahead, it is not ruled out that the number of players will continue to increase significantly, which could take Wilds to new levels of popularity.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Monster Hunter Wilds - Launch Trailer\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a_wNFT4j6qI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The positive reception of the game can be attributed to its blend of intense action and a rich character creation experience, which has likely captured the attention of franchise fans. However, <strong>it is worth considering that the number of players may continue to increase throughout the weekend<\/strong>. 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On its first day, the new title reached an impressive peak of 920,464 concurrent players, quickly placing it at #10 on the list of most played games on the platform. This launch has surpassed previous records set by popular titles like Baldur&#8217;s Gate 3, Hogwarts Legacy, and New World, all of which previously dominated user engagement metrics. It has continued to rise even after its launch. At 10:05 PM Pacific Time, Monster Hunter Wilds not only [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9318,"featured_media":296679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":14},"categories":[1018,1015],"tags":[4466,1802,3797,7182,7184,8750,1056,5740],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6823],"class_list":["post-296678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","category-news","tag-baldurs-gate-3","tag-cyberpunk-2077","tag-hogwarts-legacy","tag-monster-hunter","tag-monster-hunter-wilds","tag-new-world","tag-steam","tag-steamdb","content-category-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309321,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296678\/revisions\/309321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296678"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=296678"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=296678"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=296678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}