Games @sh.itjust.works nanoUFO @sh.itjust.works 10mo ago

Palworld has sold over 4 million copies in only about 3 days. Momentum has increased since yesterday, with the latest sales at 86,000 units per hour.

twitter.com /palworld_en/status/1749074821609373745

Nitter link: https://nitter.net/palworld_en/status/1749074821609373745

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Hopefully Nintendo/The Pokemon Company will see how well Palworld is doing and stop putting out disappointing mainline Pokemon games.
- Scarlet and Violet sold 10 million copies during the launch weekend, so I think they'll be pretty content to keep churning out mediocre games at a much faster pace.
  
  Yeah but this is a literal nobody coming into the market and pulling almost half the sales numbers as the single biggest franchise in the world with near 30 years' worth of brand recognition. That's still got to be somewhat of a wakeup call.
  
  Yeah it makes me sad to think about that - people are going to keep buying the games regardless of how bad they get.
- Palworld is basically what I wanted Pokemon Legends: Arceus to be (minus the guns, obviously). The game has issues, which I mostly chalk up to early access woes, but it's a great case study in how to do an open world creature collector game.
The power of hype is borderless
- When it’s just hype alone, games end up getting destroyed with bad reviews. If a game is hyped up and is actually good, that’s different, isn’t it?
  
  People are loving the concept, but I've heard the game itself is pretty meh
  
  If a game lives up to the hype, it's not hype. It's recognition.
- All my friends and I never heard of this game until it came to early access. We weren't hyped at all more surprised. Plus I want to play it before Nintendo tries to sue. I know they have no right to but it's Nintendo, they'll probably try
  
  Careful of accusing Nintendo of being litigious, they might sue you for damaging their rep.
  
  That’s called hype 🤗
- Hopefully they don’t pull a TemTem
I hope this will help the devolopment of the game so that this doesn't stay in early access forever like their previous game
- I hope they don't just pack their pencils and leave after this.
  
  I think we are safe on that front at least, there is way too much effort put into the game for it to be a cash grab and run
From what I’ve read, it’s ARK but not terrible. Watched the first 20 minutes and it was more reminiscent of BOTW. When’s it swap to ARK?
- That is has some base building elements, it's a bunch of popular elements from other games put into a open world pokemon botw mold.

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