Not surprisingly, Palworld made a ton of money, but that doesn’t mean PocketPair will suddenly switch to triple-A gaming.
Palworld isn’t getting as much attention as it did at the beginning of the year, but that doesn’t mean it’s still underperforming. In fact, it sounds like money printing, at least according to PocketPair CEO Takuro Mizobe, who recently spoke about the developer’s plans in an interview with GameSpark (translated by Automaton). It’s normal for studios to want to expand and hire more staff when they have a hit product, but Mizobe said PocketPair wants to see how far it can go while remaining “independently scaled.” development. He continued: “Judging from the development trend of global top three games, it has become difficult to have a large team to develop a game and ensure that it can be popular.”
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While Palworld is likely the game that brought PocketPair to your attention, it’s been making games for a while. In fact, the success of the first few games was the reason it became Palworld in the first place. The success of its mini-game Overdungeon meant it could make Craftopia, and the success of Craftopia meant it could continue work on Palworld. But Mizobe said PocketPair won’t maintain this “snowball effect” in future games.
“Although we don’t talk about it publicly, Palworld’s sales are tens of billions of yen. If we develop the next game based on these profits as we have done in the past, the scale will not only expand beyond 3A, but as far as our organization In terms of maturity, we won’t be able to keep up with this, or better said, we’re simply not cut out for something like this.
Regardless, Mizobe doesn’t seem that interested in triple-A or 4A games, explaining: “If you asked me if I would make any game with such a huge budget, I wouldn’t. I want to pursue something like indie Interesting idea as well.
So even if Palworld isn’t the most original in some ways, at least it always has an independent heart (plus, The Pokémon Company never seems to take any action on accusations of plagiarism).
