Palworld has now sold more copies than the original Pokémon Gen 1 (Red, Green, and Blue), which is still the best selling Pokémon generation with 31 Million copies sold.
Palworld Hits 40M Players Ahead of Friday's 1.0 Launch - FullCleared
Submitted 1 month ago by sundray@lemmus.org to games@lemmy.world
https://fullcleared.com/news/palworld-hits-40m-players-ahead-of-fridays-1-0-launch/
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Einhornyordle@feddit.org 1 month ago
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Palworld is multiplatform, so it reaches Steam that is 150 millions alone, Switch 150 millions and PS4 90 millions. Compared to the 118 million Game Boys (including Color). Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to mud their success, just putting some numbers into perspective. It is fantastic to see how well Palworld does. And it did even survive an attack from Nintendo’s Ninjas (Palworld was sued by Nintendo)!
missphant@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
All they have to do is launch the next Pokémon on Steam and it’s all theirs again. :')
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
For Nintendo, Pokemon is more than just raw numbers for the games themselves. It is a system seller by being exclusive, a core Nintendo strategy. And the most money from Pokemon isn’t even made by the games themselves, but from merchandise and other licensing around this IP. But what I could see Nintendo doing someday is, releasing a game that is not mainline Pokemon and its sole purpose is to “advertise” Pokemon on other platforms like Steam. They tried it already on mobile. Maybe release the mobile games on Steam too, like this strange Super Mario Bros game on Android.
Faaaaaaa@piefed.social 1 month ago
It’s not sales it’s players. When Palworld came out it was on gamepass, no clue if it still is but I know that is how my friends and I played it on release and never bought it.
creamfresh@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Palworld has nothing to do with Pokémon.
LemmyTellYou@lemmy.cafe 1 month ago
I’m not disputing that Palworld isn’t popular, but I hate when companies advertise with “40M players”
40M purchases is fine, which is very impressive for a paid game. If I buy a game, never play it or play it once, then I’m not ‘playing’ that game.
tomi000@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well they cant say 40M owners because that would be a lie as well.
LemmyTellYou@lemmy.cafe 1 month ago
“Copies sold” is a much better measure
It bugs me when GW2 also does this with “over 12 million players” when actually it’s registered accounts.
I know people who have and use multiple POF accounts obtained freely, including a guy who literally has 83 accounts and uses them all every reset.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Sorry, did we say players? We meant
“40M payers”
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
“license holders”
Novamdomum@fedia.io 1 month ago
I knew this annoying dude who would always confidently declare that Pocketpair were doomed and that Nintendo was just waiting for the perfect time to completely destroy them. I don't know why, but he seemed to almost look forward to that, it was weird.
QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Because he’s a rabid Pokémon fan? Sounds about right. XD
omarfw@lemmy.world 1 month ago
imagine glazing Nintendo that hard. absolute weirdo behavior.
SleepyPie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Apparently game fans in Japan and Korea are culturally opposed to any form of game mimicry. They were decidedly on Nintendo’s side and were rooting for pocketpair’s downfall.
Which is weird because I feel like every game is “x game but with y”, but online spaces love to form one correct opinion and drown out all other perspectives.
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 1 month ago
Because the 3 or so patent suits they filled against them weren’t the perfect time… Even after ex post facto filing for these patents and this somehow being allowed under Japanese patent law
LostWanderer@fedia.io 1 month ago
I can't wait to play the 1.0 version, its a better game than I thought initially. Just gotta transfer my current pals into that machine to retrieve them in the new world. Can't wait till Friday!
theOneTrueSpoon@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Can we still use our old saves in 1.0? I kinda want to start a new game but I’m so used to flying around on my jetdragon, I don’t think I’ll be able to go back to walking everywhere! It’ll take quite a while before I’ll be able to craft the item you need to ride them if I start over
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
You can use the same save file. The devs did recommend starting over though as a lot has changed. You can use the global palbox to store pals you want to transfer between saves.
LostWanderer@fedia.io 1 month ago
You can if you want too, but like another commentor mentioned there have been major changes done to the world for the 1.0. You'd be playing at a disadvantage. I decided to start over because my first base was pretty inefficiently placed and it was a bitch to realistically move the first time. I decided that starting over with a clean slate but easy to retrieve pals is better.
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 1 month ago
I’m gonna start anew a private server. My group of friends played the hell out of this for months until there was nothing else to do. I kept playing just building new bases, it was my jam. We decided to give it a pause and retake the game after 1.0. Now’s the time, we’re starting from scratch and I already have an idea for a new base on top of the massive stone pillars in the central part of the island. Can’t wait for tomorrow!!
stagen@feddit.dk 1 month ago
Had honestly expected the game to have been nuked to the ground by Nintendo by now. Glad it survived! May have to revisit it!
Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Not for lack of trying. But a few judges have decided some of Nintendo’s patents are bullshit.
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I didn’t realize it was going 1.0 on the 10th, I just grabbed it in the summer sale. Nice.
RogueBanana@piefed.zip 1 month ago
Palworld tomorrow, Scrap mechanic on 24th and Valheim on September. Super excited for coming months.
futurefossil@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Scrap Mechanic… is alive?
RogueBanana@piefed.zip 1 month ago
We are all suprised, they just announced chapter 2 and full release in beginning of this month.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today 1 month ago
I am figuring on playing Palworld again about a month after launch. Modders will have some work to do to bring their stuff up to date, dealing with the influx of players, week 1 super-patching, and so forth. Gotta let such teething issues of a launch to be ironed out.
In particular, I want to have gliding pals and pokeball throwing back again.
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 1 month ago
Have there been a ton of big content changes since the EA launch?
I know they changed a ton of features like pet mounts and pokeball throwing due to morally reprehensible, anticompetitive nin lawsuits. That stuff can be modded back in - but I looked at a recent map and wasn’t sure how much it’s really changed over time or how many new things have been added.
What i’m hoping for is substantial improvements to base management and the metagame, along with loads of new pals. The bosses also seemed kind of weird compared to the rest of the game so changes to that / the story would be huge improvements for me too.
I guess I should look this stuff up.
Transparent_knoll@awful.systems 1 month ago
Apparently there have been so many changes listed in v1 patch notes, that they reached the announcement limit on Steam.
Source: https://www.polygon.com/palworld-full-release-patch-notes-steam-leaving-early-access/
actualaccount@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I am a Palworld enjoyer.
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This game just finished? Guess I should revisit, it’s been years. I thought it released a while ago.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
It was in Early Access phase the whole time. Compared to AAA publisher, they had declared this game not being finished yet.
Zahille7@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The whole two years. Such a long early access period.
Kritix@fedia.io 1 month ago
Yeaa, it's been a while. I played it at launch so I guess it's time to revisit Palworld again.