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Palworld hits 19m players, sees "biggest third-party Game Pass launch ever"

Palworld - you know, the open-world survival game with the definitely-not-Pokémon you might have heard about once or tw…

Watch on YouTube Breaking that 19m figure down a little further, Pocketpair says Palworld has now sold 12m copies on Steam (Wikipedia's extremely rough-and-ready list of best-selling PC games puts that a million ahead of the original The Sims lifetime sales and a million less than Stardew Valley for some vague context), while the extra 7m players come from Xbox, presumably including PC Game Pass. In the same blog post, Microsoft notes it's working with Pocketpair to enable dedicated servers (which are currently only available in the Steam version), to provide engineering resources to help with GPU and memory optimisation on Xbox, and to speed up the process so Palworld updates can get into Xbox players' hands quicker. "You won't feel like you're playing something made with thought, or craft, or an earnest team's best intentions," he wrote.

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