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The story
A thread titled “Pokoa isn’t selling as well as Palworld” on the Hardware/Industry (“Geha”) board sparked a debate over the actual sales numbers. Pokoa’s cumulative sales were cited as “8 million units,” while opinions split on Palworld’s early-access peak — was it “15 million” or “18 million”? Someone also posted an image showing an all-time sales ranking, but since it didn’t match the official figure of 15 million, some replies called it a “fabricated ranking.” Whether to count from early access or only after full release also became a sticking point, since the two methods give very different totals.
What people said
Wasn't Palworld's full-release sales actually behind Pokoa's?
Cumulative total's 8 million, for the record.
Did it really get that high? I thought it was stuck at 15 million.
I wasn't bashing it, though.
The official figure excluding Game Pass is 15 million — so what's this?
Lmao, what a blatantly fabricated ranking.
"Mecha Chameleon" flamed out way too fast — before the Switch 2 version was even announced, concurrent players had already dropped to just a few thousand.
Then show us your Steam library?
You know about it, right? It happened today.
They saw that coming, which is why they've kept it walled off from the parent company. Sony's shareholders know Sony's in the wrong — they just don't care about anything but the money.
So we Nintendo fanboys ("ninshin," a pun on the slur "ninbuta") don't keep getting used as a bashing stick.
There shouldn't need to be a bashing stick in the first place — there's no other decent home console out there anyway.
Background and Key Points of the Debate
For Steam early-access titles, publishers differ on whether to fold early-access sales into the total once a game exits early access, so figures like “15 million” and “18 million” can both end up circulating for the same title depending on when each was announced. On top of that, plays via Xbox Game Pass aren’t counted as purchases, which makes the thread’s claim that “actual sales must be higher” hard to verify from the outside. The all-time sales ranking image posted in the thread also didn’t match the official figures and had no clear source, so its accuracy couldn’t be confirmed either. Readers should note that the thread was dominated by the kind of partisan sniping typical of the Hardware/Industry board — terms like “Nishi” (a slur for Nintendo Switch fans), “buta” (“pig,” another Nintendo-fan slur), and “obstacle” got thrown around more than any real comparison of sales figures.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry, “Geha”) thread “[Basic Premise] Pokoa really isn’t selling anywhere near as well as Palworld, right? Why do Switch fanboys act so high and mighty about it?“
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