Update: Minutes after this story was posted the player count crossed over the 2 million mark.
As Palworld achieves yet another sales record in just a matter of days it is also on the verge of crossing another milestone. The momentum for the new game does not seem to slowing down, much, and Pocketpair CEO Takuro Mizobe is making sure everyone knows about it. Mizobe’s latest tweet announces that over 6 million copies have been sold in just 4 days. This continues a meteoric sales trend that began when 2 million copies had been sold on its first day of release.
#Palworld has sold over 6 million copies in only 4 days!
— Palworld (@Palworld_EN) January 23, 2024
Our all-time peak player count has also surpassed 1.7 million.
Thank you very much!!
Some users are experiencing problems and bugs, which we are addressing with the highest priority.
Thanks for your support! pic.twitter.com/j1CGWW52Rr
The CEO also acknowledges in the post that not everything has gone smoothly but given the online nature of the game and the large amount players that have jumped on board, it’s understandable how various servers are being put under a strain to accommodate such huge demands. Speaking of which, at the time of this writing, Steam is reporting there are just under over 2 million players for the new game. and it could get much higher before the day is over. Valve’s Counter-Strike 2 is the closest competitor in the rankings but even then has under half as many players at 944,712. It remains to be seen if the game will conquer the all-time record currently held by PUBG, which according to VGC, managed to have 3,257,248 players online back in 2018.
Controversy and Mods
As Palworld achieves these sales and player records it remains to be seen if there will be fallout from the controversy regarding accusations about the game having used character designs from Pokémon. The modding community has had fun with this as well after one such mod was said to be being worked on to bring two major characters from the Nintendo franchise to Palworld. Meanwhile, modder Puredark who is known for their paywalled DLSS 3 plugin mods for games that don’t include support NVIDIA’s frame generation technology at launch, has released an AMD FSR 3.0 frame generation mod and even posted a video of it working on an ASUS ROG Ally gaming handeld.
Discussion (3 replies)
Join Discussion →Uhh? What is this?
A cross between Pokemon, Animal Crossing and Fortnite?
I.. I don't think it's for me.
I'm not interested in fortnite, I'm not interested in pokemon, which means I'm not interested in this squared.
I hate that this is on PC, because it incentivizes the corporate bobbleheads to chase trends like this instead of making proper, quality games.
I'm not into this either but I'm tracking, just a bit, due to how quickly it's been selling and getting players. Basically, just the latest 'thing' but it kind of came out of nowhere. Even though we have floods of similar mobile/indie games it's always a surprise to me which one ends up being a breakout hit.