BODY: For the price of a canned coffee from a Tokyo vending machine, you can now buy one of Capcom's best-selling action games. Monster Hunter Rise has been cut to ¥399 on Steam — a 90% discount off its ¥3,990 list price — as part of the CAPCOM AUTUMN SALE, which runs until 1:59 a.m. JST on October 9.
Rise is the headline act, but it isn't alone. Street Fighter 6 is 60% off at ¥1,996, timed just ahead of the arrival of new DLC fighter Arjun. Monster Hunter Wilds, the series' newest and most demanding entry, takes a more modest 25% cut to ¥3,742 — a notable move given that a substantial DLC expansion is still on the horizon. Also discounted are Monster Hunter World: Iceborne Master Edition and the Monster Hunter Stories 1+2 Double Pack, rounding out what is effectively a full-catalogue on-ramp to the franchise.
The ¥399 Rise price is unusually aggressive even by Capcom's standards. The game launched on Switch in March 2021 and arrived on PC in January 2022; its Sunbreak expansion is sold separately, so the discount functions less as a clearance and more as a funnel — get players into Rise cheaply, sell them Sunbreak, and hand them off to Wilds.
Note that Steam prices are region-locked. The ¥399 figure applies to accounts billed in Japanese yen; overseas storefronts are running the same sale at their own local pricing, typically around 85–90% off.
The insider take
Japanese Steam pricing has quietly become one of the best deals in global gaming, and Capcom knows it. Console software in Japan holds its value stubbornly — a used copy of Rise at a Book-Off in Shinjuku still runs north of ¥2,000 — which makes a ¥399 digital copy genuinely disruptive to the secondhand market that has long dominated Japanese game retail. Capcom has been the most PC-forward of the big Japanese publishers for years, and sales like this are a deliberate bet that a domestic audience raised on handhelds can be converted to Steam. Judging by Monster Hunter Wilds' concurrent-player records on PC, that bet is paying off.
Originally reported by GAME Watch (Japanese).