PT: It's not even been 24 hours since Monster Hunter Wilds' PC release—but it's very, very nearly scraped close to 1 million players on Steam in its first six hours. As mentioned in the original story below,

Monster Hunter Wilds’ has taken the gaming world by storm, reaching incredible player numbers on Steam. With a peak of 1,384,608 concurrent players, it has quickly become one of the most popular games on the platform.

Monster Hunter Wilds has clearly been a huge hit, with a Steam play count three times higher than any previous Monster Hunter game, let alone anything else publisher Capcom has ever launched, Resident Evil included.