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If they were smart they would engage with the current game creators and spin this into something bigger.

xethos 3y ago
I struggle to picture Nintendo teaming up with the game that has players farming and eating their own "pals". More to the point, people have been clamouring online for an MMO-style Pokemon game... hell, since the internet went mainstream. Nintendo not wanting to do the "heavy"[0] lifting of making a game like Palworld is, IMO, not why Nintendo hasn't launched one. [0] Not an afternoon project, but also very much not out of Nintendo's wheelhouse.
- Hamuko 3y ago
  I thought that they ate Pokemons considering that there are no non-Pokemon animals in the universe? Actually, the anime even says outright that one of the Pokemon is basically extinct because it's so delicious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrd128i8YGI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrd128i8YGI
  - xethos 3y ago
    The distinction I'm looking to make is the subtlety. Palworld is objectively, dramatically more in-your-face about it. The first ad on Steam is one "Pal" eating another. Nintendo will accept they need to have an answer to "So are all Pokemon vegan?", but will neither advertise it, nor push people to question what all the people and pokemon eat. They have very different markets, and strive to project different images.
    - brucethemoose2 3y ago
      Another trailer is rather using Pals to manufacture firearms on an assembly line. Its... Definitely not a Nintendo game.
      - me_me_me 3y ago
        there is an animation (pixalated) for slaughtering your pal. Also you can capture humans as pals. So there is that. Definitely not a nintendo take
    - viraptor 3y ago
      I think we got an official answer to that one a while ago. https://imgur.com/ICjRaA8 https://imgur.com/ICjRaA8 (Magikarp is tasty)
minimaxir 3y ago
The most likely outcome is that Palworld gets released on the Switch 2 eventually.
numpad0 3y ago
Bigger as in bigger legal win perhaps. Bigger as in hype no. That's not how media works.
viraptor 3y ago
Nintendo is the Apple of games world. They have their own expensive toys in their own garden and don't play with others. If they wanted to engage and make something bigger they'd engage with modders or community years ago. They effectively are trying to kill the community-run Smash tournaments through legal.

I struggle to picture Nintendo teaming up with the game that has players farming and eating their own "pals". More to the point, people have been clamouring online for an MMO-style Pokemon game... hell, since the internet went mainstream. Nintendo not wanting to do the "heavy"[0] lifting of making a game like Palworld is, IMO, not why Nintendo hasn't launched one. [0] Not an afternoon project, but also very much not out of Nintendo's wheelhouse.

Hamuko 3y ago
I thought that they ate Pokemons considering that there are no non-Pokemon animals in the universe? Actually, the anime even says outright that one of the Pokemon is basically extinct because it's so delicious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrd128i8YGI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrd128i8YGI
- xethos 3y ago
  The distinction I'm looking to make is the subtlety. Palworld is objectively, dramatically more in-your-face about it. The first ad on Steam is one "Pal" eating another. Nintendo will accept they need to have an answer to "So are all Pokemon vegan?", but will neither advertise it, nor push people to question what all the people and pokemon eat. They have very different markets, and strive to project different images.
  - brucethemoose2 3y ago
    Another trailer is rather using Pals to manufacture firearms on an assembly line. Its... Definitely not a Nintendo game.
    - me_me_me 3y ago
      there is an animation (pixalated) for slaughtering your pal. Also you can capture humans as pals. So there is that. Definitely not a nintendo take
  - viraptor 3y ago
    I think we got an official answer to that one a while ago. https://imgur.com/ICjRaA8 https://imgur.com/ICjRaA8 (Magikarp is tasty)

minimaxir 3y ago

The most likely outcome is that Palworld gets released on the Switch 2 eventually.

numpad0 3y ago

Bigger as in bigger legal win perhaps. Bigger as in hype no. That's not how media works.

viraptor 3y ago

Nintendo is the Apple of games world. They have their own expensive toys in their own garden and don't play with others. If they wanted to engage and make something bigger they'd engage with modders or community years ago. They effectively are trying to kill the community-run Smash tournaments through legal.