{"id":85523,"date":"2026-07-08T07:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T11:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85523"},"modified":"2026-07-08T08:37:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:37:31","slug":"palworld-hits-an-incredible-40-million-players-2-5-years-after-early-access-launch-and-with-1-0-right-around-the-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85523","title":{"rendered":"Palworld Hits an Incredible 40 Million Players 2.5 Years After Early Access Launch, and With 1.0 Right Around the Corner"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/palworld\">Palworld<\/a> has achieved an impressive player milestone 2.5 years after its early access launch and with the 1.0 release right around the corner.<\/p>\n<p>Developer Pocketpair said Palworld had passed 40 million players, with 1.0 set for July 10 (we\u2019ve got the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/palworld-dev-offers-approximate-release-time-for-10-update-says-players-do-not-need-to-wipe-their-data-but-they-really-should\">global release times for Palworld\u2019s 1.0 launch<\/a> if you want to know when you can play).<\/p>\n<p>That 40 million figure doesn&#8217;t mean Palworld has sold 40 million copies. While it&#8217;s an undoubted sales success, particularly on Steam, Palworld is also available on console subscription services. It&#8217;s still on Game Pass, for example (Microsoft promoted the Palworld 1.0 launch as part of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/xbox-makes-first-game-pass-lineup-announcement-following-layoffs-and-ceo-asha-sharmas-admission-that-microsofts-gaming-strategy-failed-to-work-out\">July 2026 wave one Game Pass lineup announcement<\/a> this week).<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"palworld-everything-major-added-since-launch\" data-loop=\"\">\n<p>It\u2019s been a rollercoaster Early Access period for Palworld since it launched in January 2024, breaking sales and concurrent player number records in the process. Pocketpair boss Takuro Mizobe has said Palworld&#8217;s launch was so big that the developer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/palworld-dev-says-massive-profits-are-too-big-for-a-studio-with-our-size-to-handle\">couldn\u2019t handle the massive profits the game generated<\/a>. Still, Pocketpair acted swiftly to capitalize on Palworld\u2019s breakout success, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/palworld-dev-signs-deal-with-sony-to-form-palworld-entertainment-and-expand-the-ip\">signing a deal with Sony<\/a> to form a new business called Palworld Entertainment that was tasked with expanding the IP. It later launched the game on PS5.<\/p>\n<p>After Palworld\u2019s huge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palworld has achieved an impressive player milestone 2.5 years after its early access launch and with the 1.0 release right around the corner. Developer Pocketpair said Palworld had passed 40 million players, with 1.0 set for July 10 (we\u2019ve got the global release times for Palworld\u2019s 1.0 launch if you want to know when you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":85525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85523"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85527,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85523\/revisions\/85527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}