Honkai: Star Rail surpasses 8 million pre-registrations

Genshin Impact put studio MiHoYo (now known as Hoyoverse) on the map, with the open-world free-to-play Zelda-like title raking in over $4 Billion since its release in late 2020. The team’s next game following Genshin Impact is the turn-based RPG ‘Honkai: Star Rail. Ahead of its release on the 26th of April, Hoyoverse revealed that the game has already surpassed 8 million pre-registrations.

Making the announcement on Twitter, the official Honkai: Star Rail page said: “8,000,000 Pre-registrations Reached! Pre-register now to unlock rewards such as Star Rail Pass ×20 and the 4-star character Serval (Erudition: Lightning) ×1!”

For the uninitiated, Honkai Star Rail was first announced in late 2021 and is an upcoming free-to-play turn-based strategy RPG which follows on from Hoyoverse’s other Honaki titles (the most recent of which was 2016’s Honkai Impact 3rd).

While the game has been announced for iOS, Android, PC and PlayStation, the console version is not up for pre-registration and has no release date, meaning the 8 million figure applies only to the mobile and PC versions of Honkai: Star Rail.

This is impressive when comparing it to the studio’s previous title ‘Genshin Impact’ which managed to hit 10 million pre-registrations by the time of the game’s release – across PC, mobile and PlayStation.

To see Honkai: Star Rail hitting such numbers one month ahead of its launch with fewer systems bodes well for the game’s success – at least in the short run. It will be interesting to see how reception compares to Genshin Impact both critically and commercially.

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