As Monster Hunter Wilds PC players wait almost a year for better performance, Capcom is in danger of losing its most important audience

Monster Hunter Wilds PC players are finally set to receive proper optimisation for the game’s performance issues, but Capcom has stated it won’t arrive until this winter. That’s almost a year after the game was released.

“To our hunters playing #MHWilds on PC, we’re committed to listening to your feedback and improving both performance and stability of the game,” said Capcom in a post on social media. “Although we will continue to implement gradual improvements in the weeks ahead, we are targeting Free Title Update 4 this winter to implement a multifaceted plan, including CPU and GPU related optimisations, followed by a second stage of mitigation measures afterwards.”

The PC version of the game has been heavily criticised since the game’s release for its poor performance, but waiting so long for improvements is ironic when the game has sold incredibly well and Capcom itself has noted how important the PC platform is. Will the improvements coming in winter be too little too late?

“Yeah, there are more players than ever playing on PC, including in Japan,” said producer Ryozo Tsujimoto back in February ahead of the game’s release, “so we definitely see room for the series to capture new players who haven’t tried it before if that’s their chosen platform.” That’s partly why Capcom released a PC benchmark tool too, to help satisfy PC players.