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Announced in a press release , it outdoes the best efforts of Resident Evil, Street Fighter, Mega Man and Devil May Cry.This achievement comes before World gets a PC release, currently scheduled for autumn this year.Capcom's previous best-seller was Resident Evil 5, which had shipped 7.3 million copies as of December 2017.World had previously become the fastest-selling game in Capcom's history , but this will be the more important milestone for the developer.It's fitting reward for quite such a good game - we awarded Monster Hunter: World a 9.5 review , saying it was "one of the most consistently exciting, satisfying, and gratifyingly absurd games [we've] played."

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