Pocketpair in Talks to Bring Palworld to Other Platforms, Potentially Including PS5 and PS4 | Push Square

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In January, the «Pokemon with guns» game Palworld blew up the internet. Thanks partly to its availability via Steam Early Access and Xbox Game Preview, the game attracted some 25 million players. Developer Pocketpair says that plans to bring the game to other platforms continue apace, and discussions with unnamed platform holders are underway, likely including PlayStation.

Speaking to Bloomberg (thanks, VGC), Pocketpair CEO and game director Takuro Mizobe said that the company is open to a partnership or acquisition but that «we are and will remain a small studio; I want to make multiple small games. Big-budget triple-A games are not for us.»

Palworld was reportedly developed for less than 1 billion yen ($6.7 million), bringing back tens of billions of yen in profit. Since Palworld's release, a slew of high-profile games have launched, including Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and the surprise hit Helldivers 2, which have indeed served to suck some of the oxygen out of the room. Still, Pocketpair has something special in its hands, and we hope to learn more about its plans in the not-too-distant future.

That is, if it survives Nintendo

Would you be excited to play Palworld on PlayStation platforms? If so, do you see such a port arriving in 2024? Let us know in the comments section below.

Khayl is Push Square's Australian correspondent, a reporter who regularly catches the competition napping. With five years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.

These other platforms are definitely Ps4 and Ps5 as Nintendo won't allow this on there console and there are no other platforms.

Played this on Gamepass and i… don’t get the appeal. I dunno. It has nice enough visuals for an early access title, but survival games all sort of feel the same to me in action. I’ve definitely heard people say, “Finally a game that takes Pokemon