Palworld Sells Over 1 Million Units in 8 Hours - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 19 January 2024 / 4,828 Views
Developer Pocket Pair announced Palworld has sold over one million units in about eight hours since it released in Early Access earlier today.
Palworld released today in Early Access on the Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC via Steam and Microsoft Store, and Xbox Game Pass.
Palworld has sold over 1 million copies in about 8 hours since release!
— Palworld (@Palworld_EN) January 19, 2024
Thank you to everyone for playing!#Pocketpair #Palworld pic.twitter.com/HbllMotIJr
Read details on the game below:
Palworld is an open-world survival crafting game that supports up to 32 players and is set in a world where mysterious creatures called “Pals” live.
Along your adventures, you will encounter many Pals. Capture them, make them work, fight, breed and even sell them. You can adventure in a large world alongside your Pals.
Over 100 Pals
In Palworld, mysterious creatures called “Pal” live in the wild. There are also many rare pals such as subspecies, bosses, legends, lucky pals, etc. Additionally, more Pals will continue to be added in future updates.
Capture and Train Pals
Every pal has a special skill for you to utilize. There are also Pals that can fly and Pals that can use guns!
Vast Open World and many Dungeons to Explore
There are various areas such as plains, deserts, snowy mountains, and volcanoes, and the pals living there are all different. There are also many dungeons with hidden treasures and special pals. Set out on a great adventure in search of unknown treasures and unknown pals.
Fight Against Leaders of Hostile Factions and Field Bosses
As you explore the vast open world, you may come across giant Pals. In addition, each biome has a hostile faction based there, whose leaders stand in your way and won’t back down without a fight.
Fight Alongside Pals using a Wide Variety of Weapons
From traditional weapons such as bows and swords to modern weapons such as assault rifles and rocket launchers. Some pals can use heavy weapons such as Gatling guns and missile launchers!
Build a Base
Leave production, farming, cooking, power generation, etc. to your pals. Pals work in ways that suit their personalities. However, pals are also living creatures like us. If you forget to give them food and rest, it will negatively affect their motivation.
Supports Multiplayer for up to 32 Players
Palworld can be played alone as well as multiplayer. By forming a guild and cooperating with your friends, you can adventure together towards a common goal. Player Battles will be implemented in a future update.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Honestly looks like one of the more blatant Pokémon ripoffs in terms of creature designs and more. Knowing how they treat fan games a lawsuit wouldn't suprise me.
From what I've played, it's very different
Similar designs are no ground for lawsuit, same design is. It is not the same. People clearly recognize patterns and similarities, but that is fine within copyright law, only direct copies aren't. Which explains why fangames are shut down, but this will not.
Some fangames have been shut down without reusing specific designs, but that is of course easier for them to do. I'm also not saying they would win a lawsuit. To be entirely honest this game seems like it's walking the line of what's legal to profit of another IP and I wouldn't want to support something like that, but on the other hand I'm all for fan projects and generally think companies are too quick to enforce copyright in cases that has no negative effect on them.
Fortnite crap sells well
I can see a lawsuit by the Pokemon company coming in for some too similar Pal designs. But we'll see. Nonetheless I tried it and it's definitely not a game made for my taste. But a great early access launch and success for Game Pass & Xbox.
I'm so interested in this game but I don't have Xbox or game on PC
Great success, well done to them.
Nintendo lawyers dispatched
Is that fast?
This on Gamepass. Games on Gamepass dont sell so this lies :P.
Well at least we know that ape way of thinking is bullshit.
You know companies get paid to bring their games to GP right? They are also not exclusive to the service meaning the game can still be brought elsewhere.
Yes I know both of those things and neither has anything to do with what I or the person I replied to said.
Most sales are from the Steam version.
As usual, not a fan of these early access games that sells themselves on the same as legitimate full fledged games.
Also, it's clearly blatantly selling itself on its absurd concept of Pokémon + Guns with all the same mechanics they auto copied from their previous open world Zelda BOTW esque crafting game to garner the look of the streaming crowd, which obviously worked.
However, I don't see it remaining as a strong concept for long since a lot of the enjoyment from this experience is from the absurd/fun shock at first. But it's vapid gameplay loop won't retain enough people for long
Very respectable number. And surprised Nintendo didn't bury then under lawsuits.
Why would Nintendo sue? The Pokémon designs belong to TPC.
They stole elements directly from Zelda Botw
Are similarity in designs enough to be able to sue?
I really hope Nintendo doesn't try to fuck with them.
On what grounds? I don't think they can.
Literally uses Zelda Mechaincs and interface stolen directly from Botw
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