Monster Hunter Wilds Slays Black Ops 6 On Steam And Here's How It Benchmarks

MojoKid writes: The upcoming Monster Hunter Wilds, which will usher in the sixth generation of the series with its launch in February, is in fact the twenty-sixth Monster Hunter game released, since the original title way back in 2004 on the PS2. The Monster Hunter Wilds free beta test, which is currently underway, has not even been out for a full day, yet it has hit a peak player count of over 463K concurrent players. That puts it ahead of the brand-new CoD: Black Ops 6, which has peaked at 306K players so far. A lot of the talk surrounding Monster Hunter Wilds, at least among PC players (who make up a majority of Capcom's audience now), has been the rather high PC system requirements, particularly with regard to CPUs. There's been some concern among PC gamers that their older AMD Zen 2 or Intel 10th-gen machines may not hack it for the new game. To determine if these concerns were warranted, HotHardware decided to benchmark the demo on a handful of platforms, yielding some surprising results on some of the latest processor architectures from AMD and Intel. Potential classics like this might drive upgrade cycles for some gamers.