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Palworld has offered over a million copies simply eight hours after launch, developer Pocketpair has stated.
Palworld, dubbed ‘Pokémon with weapons’, launched this morning, January 19, and shortly shot to the highest of Steam’s best-selling video games listing and broke into Steam’s top-four most-played video games listing by concurrent gamers. On the time of this text’s publication, Palworld had overtaken battle royale PUBG into third place with 365,000 concurrent gamers and a ‘very constructive’ consumer assessment score.
Palworld’s true concurrent participant rely can be a lot increased, with the sport additionally out there on Xbox and Home windows PC by way of Sport Go.
The large inflow of gamers at launch has triggered server issues, nevertheless. Pocketpair stated Palworld’s servers had change into unstable, which can trigger connection points. “We’re working to resolve this ASAP!” Pocketpair (*1*).
“Within the meantime, some customers have reported success in making an attempt to join 2-3 instances or ready after launching the sport,” the developer continued.
Amid Palworld’s launch success, it’s value noting the Xbox model lags behind the Steam model in phrases of performance. And now Palworld is out in the wild, Pokémon followers are expressing their concern on the similarities between each video games.
Ensure to test our IGN’s Palworld Early Entry Assessment in Progress to discover out what we expect.
Wesley is the UK Information Editor for IGN. Discover him on Twitter at @wyp100. You may attain Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.