MiHoYo’s free-to-play RPG Genshin Impact has experienced the best international launch for a Chinese game.
As reported by the South China Morning Post, the open-world title racked up over 110,000 concurrent viewers on Twitch mere hours after its release, giving it a larger audience at that time than Fortnite.
Genshin Impact was released on September 28th and is available on PC, PS4 and mobile devices. Internationally, the game saw 5.3 million pre-registrations via its website. In China, it hit 16 million across all platforms.
“I don’t think any Chinese-made game has ever had that many pre-registrations outside its home market. So just by the scale of people interested early on, Genshin Impact is a big title already.”
Impressive release
Furthermore, the game has shot up the charts on iOS devices in China, as it is the second top-grossing application on the Chinese App Store, coming in behind ByteDance’s short-form video app Douyin, the localised version of TikTok.
According to analytics firm Qimai Data, MiHoYo’s title had already generated $1.84 million at the time of writing.
