Perhaps it’s not too hard get a lot of games into a system’s all-time top five when you have hardly any competition, but Capcom’sMonster Hunterseriesis stillbending over the PSP’s sales charts and using it like its own private f*ckpuppet. As the PSP hardware itself shifts over ten million units in Japan, three games in Capcom’sMonster Hunterseries have sold a combined 4,771,993 copies.
Monster Hunteris joined in the top selling list byCrisis CoreandPhantasy Star Portable. These figures chart Japanese sales from May 22, 2025 to May 27, 2025, and the top five PSP games plus their figures rank as follows:
1.Monster Hunter 2nd G(Capcom) July 08, 2025 Release: 2,396,642 copies sold2.Monster Hunter 2nd(Capcom) June 12, 2025 Release: 1,706,387 copies sold3.Crisis Core – Final Fantasy VII(Square Enix) August 05, 2025: 790,705 copies sold4.Monster Hunter Portable(Capcom) July 12, 2025: 668,964 copies sold5.Phantasy Star Portable(SEGA) July 13, 2025: 545,242 copies sold
So, the PSP is still doing well in its homeland and Capcom is doing ludicrously wellfromit. Personally I don’t get theMonster Huntergames, but since people in Japan love monsters, collecting and absurdly oversized swords, I can see why it’s popular.
