Palworld Boss Says A Switch Release Could Be "Hard" Due To Technical Reasons

"technical reasons" sounds like such an excuse, we know the real reason /s

Palworld on Switch will be pretty abysmal.
The performance, the game specs, it will be drastically downgraded.
Not to mention, selling the "Pokemon clones" with gun it might hurt the image brand of Pokemon.

Btw, I want to add.
Even from my experience with Nexomon, there were some monster design looked similar from certain Pokemon especially from Pokemon gen 5 - 8 and they looked better than Pokemon in my opinion.
Don't you think this monster look familiar?

@Kirbyo Nah the game barely runs at all on Steam Deck, I can't imagine how it would run on a Switch.

Still a very fun game though, would love to see it on PS5

....Even if this came to Switch I'd still would never touch it, there are far better Pokemon-likes on Switch...you know, games that actually TRIED to be unique and do their own thing and not use AI to create their characters. (or simply rip off them, lol)

@Joeynator3000
Nexomon 3 is my recommendation.
Better keep your eyes on Nexomon 3 information.

@Joeynator3000 Pretty sure there's no proof that they used Ai to make the monsters. In fact, the game was in development before Ai got to a point where it could be used. The only thing suggesting the monsters would've been designed with Ai was the CEO shilling Ai in general- but I'm pretty sure they actually hired a person who made these designs. At least from everything I could remember around this.

@Kirbyo The real reason, of course, is that it barely runs on mid-spec machines like the XBOX Series S and the Steam Deck. The optimization needed to pare this game down to the Switch's specs would be too much trouble.

Nothing else. As a note to the more conspiratorial-minded, it's worth noting that neither Nintendo nor The Pokémon Company had any trouble with games like Nexomon, YO-KAI Watch, or TemTem coming to the Switch.

technical reasons is a valid excuse but we all know the real reason it won't come to switch is because nintendo would have a cow if it did.

@Narrator1 I don't really like how Yo-Kai Watch is lumped in with the other two you listed, given that it has no similarities to Pokemon. It's like saying "Nintendo had no qualms with Shin Megami Tensei being on Switch," when that game has no relation to pokemon at all.

Nexomon and TemTem are genuine pokemon-like titles, but Yokai Watch, Digimon, and SMT are entirely different beasts from Pokemon with entirely different types of gameplay and appeals.

I really, really doubt it’s anything but what they say it is. The game already has issues running on weaker devices.

Also I have no clue why on earth people keep acting like this game’s existence is some kind of personal affront or like the biggest media franchise in the world needs people running to protect it from being affectionately spoofed.

@Narrator1 @Lizuka
...but, jumping to conclusions is so fun. you mean I bought this tin foil hat for nothing? 😭

I mean, if Scarlet/Violet is anything to go by, I’ll believe it

@beltmenot proof? I doubt Nintendo would care if it sold well enough on their platform. They make their cut on physical and digital sales, they're happy, The Pokemon Company might pitch a fit. Nintendo is a stakholder in the Pokemon Company, but they aren't opposed to the almighty dollar.

As for this game... meh. Won't lose sleep over this one, the same can be said for the rest of the Switch audience whom are still buying games.

For the record, I don't care for Pokemon either.

Played it on the Series X and wasn’t too impressed with it. Doesn’t really have the charm like most other monster collectors.

@progx I wrote that comment as a little joke. Was not trying to start a argument.

Oh. Well then, I enjoy a good laugh… wouldn’t Nintendo have a mushroom over a cow though?

The Switch has enough trash in the eshop. This can stay contained elsewhere with Genshin.

Yeah, if Nintendo was really concerned about copyright from Palworld they would have tried a long time ago, so otherwise, does anyone really think there is any quality control going on in what games are allowed onto Nintendo platforms?
This is the eshop that has shovelware within the first few rows of the deals section pretty much every time.
The game would genuinely run awful if it came to Switch, from the footage I saw it’s being held together by duct tape and rubber bands at this point anyway.

@Coalescence This game is Starry Night compared to half the stuff on the eShop. At least it's a genuinely well made game, albeit not really for me.

I appreciate not referring to this game as a Pokémon-like here. You’re all gems on staff!

@Coalescence Genshin is a masterpiece compared to this A.I. generated ripoff trash.

I had access to Palword since day 1 on Game Pass, but i refused to ever install it.
In fact refuse to play anything with that level of hype as i were never mainstream.
This is why i never played any Pokemon game in my life either.
The hype totally made it uninteresting as i'm not a bandwagon person.
In fact i never played GTA and Minecraft either because of the insane hype.

If games are hyped this much, you know the gameplay is mediocre.

I don't even know anyone who was asking for this game for Switch anyways. As much as I like most of Microsoft games, this is one I would live without. Yes it's fun but it doesn't had the same charm as most creature slaying games (Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, Monster Hunter, Wild Hearts, Shin Megami Tensei, Legend of Zelda) would had and that is actually make the monsters unique so when we slay them we actually feel a sense of accomplishment and get a slight reward along with it.

Palworld is incredibly fun, and I hope someday it can be released on Switch 2. No way it could run on Switch at an acceptable state.

Palworld isn't ever going to dethrone Pokémon, and the absolute worst it could do is take away a couple dozen hours you might have put towards replaying a Pokémon game.

Oh, and Nintendo possibly being grumpy about it. I feel like at this point they've stopped caring, they would've happily sent the battalion of lawyers out ASAP if they thought they had a claim. Now it's just another game that is only separated by the fact it had a massive launch, which is almost half a year behind us now.

@Serpenterror Microsoft had no hand in development or publishing. They stumbled onto success by getting Pocketpair to release first on their console, at which point they offered to do marketing after seeing the success. That is the beginning and end of their partnership.

I wouldn't touch this even if it did, the gameplay looks like a slog, the performance ain't the best and a lot of the creature designs are obvious copies of Pokémon, either that's because the use of AI or Pocket Pair have no creativity of their own.

There's far better creature collecting games out there, such as Yo Kai Watch, World of Final Fantasy, DQM, Digimon, Cassette Beasts and SMT.

Not surprised, it even struggles to run on the Xbox Series S.

This take is pure delusion, the game struggles to run on devices mutliple times stronger than the switch.
It's time to admit that it's hardware is pretty out of date.

@Toastmaster That is an insanely illogical idea. Minecraft's gameplay in particular is anything but mediocre. Have you played TotK or BotW or any Mario game or Smash Bros. or Animal Crossing? All fantastic games with massive hype around them.

@iLikeUrAttitude The game is also poorly optimised as the developers aren't very experienced.

Scarlet/Violet ran perfectly on Switch, and surely Palworld can run with the same, if not perfecter, level of perfection. 💪

It's a fairly resource-hungry game, so I'm not surprised.
Doubt Nintendo are that bothered about this coming to future Nintendo hardware - the Pal designs are fairly reminiscent of Pokémon, but are different enough to avoid any unwanted legal attention. The game is also far from being a straightforward Pokémon clone. If you’ve played it, you will know it has elements of survival, building, crafting, resource management & a greater emphasis on exploration. If anything, a little competition will be good for Game Freak – some quality control and a decent game engine will go a long way to improving the latest Pokémon offerings.

@iLikeUrAttitude
My comment was sarcasm on the fact that Palworld is similar to Pokemon, and Nintendo is quite stringent on protecting their property (as we've seen recently with Heaven Studio...).
Also, yes the Switch is underpowered, but is power really what it's going for?

No thanks. Don't support any dev that uses actual ai in their development.

I mean, ARK runs on the Switch in some capacity (I haven’t played ARK), so shouldn’t Palworld theoretically run as well since it’s essentially ARK but worse and with fakémon (I haven’t played Palworld either).

It will be cool to play this on switch 2 next year, maybe at 60 fps, 720p portable and 1080p docked

Well, sure. It'd would be too difficult to really bother.
Also, I don't think anyone cares anymore.

@Anti-Matter nah I'd rather have zacian any day

@VoidofLight yeah honestly same

@UltimateOtaku91 They didn't use AI for the monster design. They had an artist working on them apparently. It's just the issue is that the artist was one of the few that constantly got rejected for video-game art before being picked out for Palworld I believe? Its apparent why, given how the designs pretty much have a massive similarity to pokemon, with some bordering on just being a recolor.

@wiiware This won't be running well on Switch 2. Can barely run on an Xbox Series X. The game is poorly optimized and pretty much only able to be played smoothly on high-end hardware.

Hard? How about NEAR IMPOSSIBLE?!

@BTB20 Yes. I own almost all Zelda games ever made and tons of Mario games etc.

@Toastmaster So you're contradicting yourself, as you have played games with an even bigger level of hype than Palworld ever had. Are TotK, BotW, Super Mario Odyssey and MK8D etc all mediocre because of the hype? Does the hype automatically make the gameplay mediocre? Or how exactly does anyone "know" that any game is going to be mediocre just because a very large amount of people are excited to play it? Makes no sense whatsoever.

@BTB20 Too many dumb questions.

@Kirbyo exactly xD

@Toastmaster You're rude and unwilling to take any kind if scrutiny. The point of my questions is, that you're a hypocrit, choosing and picking what you deem having to much hype and then declare those games mediocre or bad without having ever touched them, while others are just fine.

@JakedaArbok
Does make me curious what games did end up being removed from the eshop, temporary or otherwise, for things other than age rating mistakes and the like.

i do remember this one game which apparently had music from zelda in it which i think returned to the eshop minus said stolen music, there was also the infamous "the last hope".

on the subject of stolen zelda music there was an apparently official shrek game on the Vtech vsmile (an edutainment focused device) which had music from ocarina of time on it (i also recognised the SaGa frontier battle theme in one segment)

@BTB20 If you weren't a rude person, i would have replied.

@VoidofLight That's a shame, well nintendo just bought porting studio specialist so maybe they can help port & optimized palworld to switch 2? 😃