BODY: Ninety percent off a mainline Monster Hunter game is the kind of number that usually comes with a catch. This time it doesn't: Capcom's newly launched CAPCOM AUTUMN SALE on Steam has dropped Monster Hunter Rise from ¥3,990 to ¥399 — less than the price of a convenience-store coffee in Tokyo, and under US$3 at current rates.
The sale runs until 1:59 a.m. JST on October 9. That strange cutoff time isn't a typo, by the way — Steam's promotions end at 10 a.m. Pacific, which lands in the small hours of the following morning in Japan. Japanese shoppers have learned to read it as "the night of the 8th."
Rise isn't the only title on the board. Street Fighter 6 is 60% off at ¥1,996, timed neatly ahead of the arrival of new fighter Arjun, who was shown off in playable form at Tokyo Game Show last month. Monster Hunter Wilds, Capcom's current flagship, takes a more modest 25% cut to ¥3,742 with a major DLC drop on the horizon. Monster Hunter World: Iceborne Master Edition and the Monster Hunter Stories 1+2 double pack round out the hunting lineup.
One important caveat for anyone tempted by that ¥399 figure: it buys the base Rise only. The Sunbreak expansion — which is where most of the game's endgame content lives — is still a separate purchase. Veterans will tell you the base game is a warm-up.
The insider take
Japanese gaming press framed this one with a very specific phrase: wan-koin ika, "less than one coin," meaning cheaper than a single ¥500 piece. It's shorthand Japanese retail has used for decades, and seeing it attached to a Monster Hunter title says a lot about where Capcom's priorities sit. Rise was born as a Switch exclusive for the domestic market in 2021; five years on, it functions as a cheap on-ramp funneling PC players toward Wilds and its paid expansion. Note too that these are Japan-region Steam prices — the yen's weakness has quietly made Japanese storefront pricing some of the most attractive in the world, a fact plenty of Japan-based expat gamers have figured out.
Originally reported by GAME Watch (Japanese).