{
  "slug": "genshin-impact",
  "url": "https://gachawiki.com/wiki/genshin-impact",
  "type": "game",
  "title": "Genshin Impact",
  "description": "Open-world action RPG by miHoYo/HoYoverse, released in September 2020. Its Wish system, with a 90-pull hard pity and the 50/50 featured-character guarantee, is the most widely copied gacha model of the 2020s.",
  "aliases": [
    "Genshin",
    "Yuan Shen",
    "GI"
  ],
  "tags": [
    "games"
  ],
  "verification": "verified",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-09",
  "lastVerified": "2026-07-09",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Capturing Radiance mechanic FAQ (Version 5.0)",
      "url": "https://genshin.hoyoverse.com/en/news/detail/125274",
      "publisher": "HoYoverse",
      "accessed": "2026-07-09",
      "note": null
    },
    {
      "title": "In-game Wish Details rate disclosure (Character and Weapon Event Wish)",
      "url": "https://genshin.hoyoverse.com/en/home",
      "publisher": "HoYoverse",
      "accessed": "2026-07-09",
      "note": "Rates appear under the Details tab of each Wish screen."
    },
    {
      "title": "Genshin Impact game developer will be banned from selling lootboxes to teens under 16 without parental consent",
      "url": "https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/genshin-impact-game-developer-will-be-banned-selling-lootboxes-teens-under-16-without-parental",
      "publisher": "US Federal Trade Commission",
      "accessed": "2026-07-09",
      "note": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Genshin Impact generates $2 billion on mobile in first year",
      "url": "https://sensortower.com/blog/genshin-impact-mobile-two-billion-revenue",
      "publisher": "Sensor Tower",
      "accessed": "2026-07-09",
      "note": "Third-party estimate covering the App Store and Google Play only."
    },
    {
      "title": "Genshin Impact (release and platform chronology)",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genshin_Impact",
      "publisher": "Wikipedia",
      "accessed": "2026-07-09",
      "note": "Tertiary source used for port dates."
    },
    {
      "title": "Genshin Impact is ending PS4 support in April 2026",
      "url": "https://kotaku.com/genshin-impact-ps4-ps5-hoyoverse-support-2000615960",
      "publisher": "Kotaku",
      "accessed": "2026-07-09",
      "note": null
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    "pity-system",
    "fifty-fifty",
    "banner",
    "rate-up",
    "premium-currency",
    "honkai-star-rail",
    "zenless-zone-zero",
    "gacha-probability"
  ],
  "game": {
    "developer": "miHoYo",
    "publisher": "HoYoverse (Cognosphere Pte. Ltd.)",
    "firstRelease": "2020-09-28 (worldwide)",
    "globalRelease": null,
    "platforms": [
      "PC",
      "iOS",
      "Android",
      "PlayStation 5",
      "Xbox Series X|S"
    ],
    "status": "active",
    "officialSite": "https://genshin.hoyoverse.com",
    "genre": "Open-world action RPG",
    "infobox": [
      {
        "label": "Premium currency",
        "value": "Primogems (160 per limited pull)",
        "cite": 2
      },
      {
        "label": "Base 5-star rate",
        "value": "0.6% (1.6% consolidated)",
        "cite": 2
      },
      {
        "label": "Hard pity",
        "value": "90 wishes (character banner)",
        "cite": 2
      },
      {
        "label": "Featured guarantee",
        "value": "50/50, raised to 55% consolidated by Capturing Radiance",
        "cite": 1
      }
    ]
  },
  "markdown": "Genshin Impact is a free-to-play open-world action RPG developed by miHoYo in Shanghai and published outside mainland China under the HoYoverse brand of Cognosphere Pte. Ltd. [[5]](#ref-5) It launched worldwide on September 28, 2020 for Windows, iOS, Android, and PlayStation 4. [[5]](#ref-5) A third-party estimate by Sensor Tower put its first-year spending on mobile app stores alone at about US$2 billion, which made it the commercial template for a generation of open-world gacha games. [[4]](#ref-4)\n\nCharacters and weapons are obtained through a gacha system called Wishes. Its numbers are published inside the game, and its pity and guarantee design has been copied, with small changes, by most large gacha games released since. [[2]](#ref-2)\n\n## Pull system\n\n*Main article: [Wishes](/genshin-impact/wiki/wishes)*\n\nThe limited-time Character Event Wish is the main banner type. Key published rates: [[2]](#ref-2)\n\n| Parameter | Value |\n| --- | --- |\n| Base 5-star rate | 0.6% per wish |\n| Consolidated 5-star rate (including pity) | 1.6% |\n| Hard pity | 90 wishes, 5-star guaranteed |\n| 4-star guarantee | at least one 4-star or better per 10 wishes |\n| Cost per wish | 160 Primogems (1 Intertwined Fate) |\n\nThe rate is not flat in practice. Community statistical projects have documented a sharp rate increase beginning at roughly wish 74, commonly called [soft pity](/wiki/pity-system). HoYoverse publishes only the base and consolidated figures, so soft pity thresholds are community-documented estimates rather than official numbers.\n\nPity counters persist between banners of the same type and do not reset when a banner rotates.\n\n## Featured-character guarantee\n\nWhen a 5-star character is pulled without an active guarantee, there is a 50% chance it is the banner's featured character. Losing that [50/50](/wiki/fifty-fifty) guarantees that the next 5-star is the featured one, so a featured character costs at most 180 wishes. [[2]](#ref-2)\n\nVersion 5.0 (August 2024) added Capturing Radiance: a lost 50/50 has a chance to convert into the featured character anyway. HoYoverse states the consolidated probability that a non-guaranteed 5-star is the featured character is 55%, and that Capturing Radiance triggers automatically after three consecutive 50/50 losses. The per-trigger probability outside that guarantee is not published. [[1]](#ref-1)\n\n## Weapon banner\n\nThe Weapon Event Wish uses a 0.7% base rate, a 1.85% consolidated rate, and an 80-wish hard pity. Each 5-star has a 75% chance to be one of the two featured weapons. The Epitomized Path system lets players designate one weapon; since Version 5.0 the designated weapon is guaranteed after one off-designation 5-star (a worst case of 160 wishes, down from 240 before the change). [[2]](#ref-2)\n\n## Other banner types\n\nA permanent standard banner (Wanderlust Invocation) shares the 0.6%/90 structure but has no featured items. The Chronicled Wish, added in Version 4.5 (2024), offers a rotating pool of older characters and weapons with a designatable target. Version 6.7 (July 2026) introduced the Lightrace Wish, a limited pool of returning 5-star characters and their signature weapons with a designated-item guarantee; it shares pity with the Chronicled Wish.\n\n## Regulation\n\nIn January 2025 Cognosphere settled with the US Federal Trade Commission for US$20 million over its loot box marketing. The settlement bars selling loot boxes to players under 16 without parental consent and requires direct-purchase options, odds disclosure, and clearer virtual-currency pricing in the United States. [[3]](#ref-3) See [gacha regulation by country](/wiki/gacha-regulation) for context.\n\n## Platforms and service history\n\n*Main article: [Release history](/genshin-impact/wiki/release-history)*\n\nA native PlayStation 5 version arrived in April 2021, and an Xbox Series X|S version in November 2024. [[5]](#ref-5) PlayStation 4 support ended on April 8, 2026, after the client was delisted in late 2025. [[6]](#ref-6) The game remains in active service on PC, mobile, PS5, and Xbox as of July 2026.",
  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
  }
}