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Pokemon Doesn't Need to Sue Palworld, It Needs to Get With the Times

The Nerd Stash: "There's been a lot of talk about Pokemon and Palworld recently, but if anything, Pokemon's new competition should be a sign to change."

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ChasterMies178d ago

Fortunately for Nintendo, the legal team is separate from Game Freak’s development team.

NotoriousWhiz177d ago

Unfortunately for us, as their legal team seems to be more competent than Game Freak's development team.

gold_drake178d ago (Edited 178d ago )

they do tho .. IF there is something to sue for. IP infringement is such a delicate thing.

but absolutely agree on the change

GoodGuy09178d ago

That, have longer dev time, and absolutely get rid of Nintendo as the exclusive platform. Imagine a AAA pkmn game on current consoles or next generation.

But money, they'll make billions with little effort.

badz149177d ago

you know that's never gonna happen

FinalFantasyFanatic177d ago

Gamer Freak, Creatures and Nintendo all have a stake in the Pokemon franchise, Nintendo especially will never let them go, I don't know how Creatures or Game Freak feels about it. Plus, the other two don't have a financial incentive to ditch Nintendo, they make mega bucks regardless. Although I think Nintendo should help Game Freak out more since they're clearly struggling, other they'll all just have to accept longer dev times and bigger gaps between games, or maybe just make some cheaper low-tier games in-between.

shinoff2183178d ago

Idk yall. I'd take a Pokémon jrpg over a Pokémon with guns, online play etc. Plus wasn't Pokémon mobile pretty fking big like 4 years ago then covid hit.

--Onilink--177d ago (Edited 177d ago )

Even Scarlet/Violet had sold 24million as of early November (and undoubtedly sold even more during the Holidays), its not like they are currently suffering.

Yes, there are plenty of things I would like Gamefreak to do better, and yes I happened to like Palworld, but not because its a Pokemon clone, because its not, but because its a good survival game, something that I have zero interest for the mainline Pokemon games to become.

Most publications keep bringing up these topic ls just for clicks, because clearly the game is your typical survival game (most who do well on PC) with some Pokemon sprinkled in and not a Pokemon competitor, the core gameplay loop is clearly just Ark with dinosaurs swapped for Pokemon like creatures

And again, while I’m enjoying the game itself, I hope it doesnt set a new precedent for what we expect from game devs these days because, based on their other games, this developer really seems to basically just try to go as close as possible to ripping off other games without getting into trouble and then not really following up on those projects as promised (Craftopia players seem particularly angry).

I doubt they ever expected the discourse around this game to reach this level of popularity to push those insane sales numbers, and they actually take the opportunity to increase the quality of their work

FinalFantasyFanatic177d ago (Edited 177d ago )

I'm going to say something somewhat controversial, the last set of Pokemon games weren't that bad, it wasn't a great game, but a good game if we ignore the performance issues (and I personally didn't have many bugs).

They just need more interesting towns and NPCs (give them interesting dialogue, there's literally no reasons to talk to NPCs), interesting areas/locations (like the sunken ship and Bellsprout Tower), and some decent side quest, there isn't really any interesting side quests in those games, and fix the barely there lore for the game (Idk even know what was going on with those 4 "legendary Pokemon"). And maybe add less new Pokemon into the next game so they can transition more of the older Pokemon into 3D.

I think Scarlet/Violet had the potential to go from a good game to a great game if they implemented most of those ideas, but they also needed more development time to optimise the game as well.

Profchaos177d ago

Yeah agree id take a remake of red in the style of the links awakening remake any day of the week

Profchaos177d ago

No they don't I don't want any of the gameplay anywhere near Pokemon the only link between them is the idea of Pokemon except there's guns you enslave humans and Pokemon and there's a survival aspect.

Pokemon is fairly family friendly can't see Nintendo going ok let's give them m16s and slaughter each other

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Xbox Has Fumbled the Bag With Palworld

With Pocketpair recently announcing a partnership with Sony, Microsoft has failed to take advantage of a golden opportunity with Palworld.

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gold_drake8d ago

true, but xbox would be am odd choice for that sort of partnership id imagine. but yeh, they dodnt think anout the potential, as usual.

jwillj2k46d ago

They already have Minecraft it wouldn’t be odd at all lol…

--Onilink--6d ago

What does that have to do with what he is saying?…

The partnership was with Sony Music and Aniplex (anime company owned by Sony). Why would Pocketpair be even remotely interested in a partnership with Xbox for those kind of things??

Sonyslave38d ago

Sony make tv shows & movies lol Microsoft doesnt.

ironmonkey6d ago

Lol, you mean the halo tv series? The one that just got cancelled? Come on man think harder.

Cockney6d ago (Edited 6d ago )

It got cancelled? Meaning its not being made?

MrBaskerville6d ago

@Cockney
Sort of, but they appear to be shopping it around for a new home.

--Onilink--6d ago

The TV series that they had to shop around to companies that actually produce that kind of content precisely because they dont??

I’d be curious to know how you would expect Microsoft to convince Pocketpair they are a better fit (or even an option for that matter) for a partnership involving Sony MUSIC Entertainment and ANIPLEX ?

Sonic18816d ago

It should get canceled. That show was awful. Keeping Master Chief mask off majority of the show 😂

Eonjay5d ago

I'm not sure what you mean here. Sony is a production studio. Microsoft is not. Microsoft dose not 'make' tv shows.

Microsoft didn't drop the ball because SonySlave is correct. The contract that Palworld made with Sony is for the production of media. Microsoft is in that business.

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Hotpot6d ago

True, last I checked the fallout tv series was made by Sony..

Eonjay5d ago

Your point is correct. This story is misleading.

Exthun6d ago

It is obvious that people on Xbix does not know how w too run the business.

Inverno6d ago

There's no golden opportunity, this game was pure hype and will suffer the same fate as most games in the survival genre. It'll be mostly forgotten, which it already has been. It'll have a half arsed cartoon like most of these games usually have, some merchandise, and eventually a sequel that'll play exactly the same because the survival genre is riddled with low effort early access games. It'll never reach the same heights as Pokemon or Minecraft.

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