- Monster Hunter Now has been a large hit with over 15m downloads
- Can modifications to mechanics like Hunt-a-thons preserve the momentum going?
- And what’s subsequent in retailer for Niantic’s new hit recreation?
Monster Hunter Now, Niantic’s AR spin-off of the best-selling Monster Hunter franchise, has surpassed 15 million downloads globally. Tasking gamers with searching down and slaying an enormous bestiary’s value of creatures, Monster Hunter Now brings the franchise into the true world by overlaying your hunts onto actual locations and having you search out their hiding locations by transferring round in actual life.
Monster Hunter was a significant title for the early PlayStation and PSP consoles, earlier than actually hitting its stride and rising to mainstream prominence with the discharge of Monster Hunter World and later Rise. Monster Hunter Now in the meantime takes the identical system that made Niantic’s Pokemon Go profitable, letting gamers work collectively to seek out well-known faces(?) from the franchise.
The Wild Hunt
Whether or not or not AR video games will be profitable is a query that is been creeping onto individuals’s lips lately. Pokemon Go has remained considerably static when it comes to development, and lots of modifications to mechanics like avatars have had gamers grumbling. Nonetheless, whereas Niantic gave the impression to be fumbling for a brand new hit for some time, they appear to have discovered it with Monster Hunter Now.
At over 15m downloads in beneath six months, the sport has made modifications to key mechanics like hunt-a-thons to raised assist gamers join. And whereas it might not have the broad enchantment that franchises like Pokemon have had, it appears that evidently Monster Hunter Now has related with a major viewers that enjoys this barely much less animal-friendly tackle creature ‘accumulating’.
To rejoice, the workforce at Niantic have additionally launched an unique promotional code [MHNOW15M] to be redeemed on the official Monster Hunter Now webstore.
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