Speculation: Could Parworld be coming to Nintendo Switch after PS5 release?

An imminent arrival on the Nintendo Switch?

“The Pokémon, but with guns”, Palworld is making headlines again! We still have no news from Nintendo regarding a possible plagiarism lawsuit against the Pocket Pair studio. In any case, these threats and accusations have never stopped the developers from continuing to flourish and regularly offering new updates. The game also continues to introduce new creatures, with designs that always raise a lot of questions. At least this allows players to flourish in the game, which benefits from increasingly rich content.

Moreover, the community of Pals trainers remains as numerous as ever and has even reached an impressive total of 2,101,867 players for the year 2024. So far, it's better than the Elden Ring DLC. Thus, Parworld has become the second most popular game in terms of number of players for a paid game. With such a large fan base, one wonders if the game will ever end up coming to Nintendo Switch. The developers have finally raised the subject.

Palworld vs Nintendo

The Nintendo Switch is approaching the end of its life and is preparing to welcome its successor in 2025, at least that is what we hope. Even if its capabilities have often been considered limited, the console has some nice surprises in store for us like its version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and more recently the highly anticipated port of Stray for this winter. However, will it one day be able to host Parworld? A game very popular with everyone, except perhaps Nintendo… For Takuro Mizobe, CEO of Pocket Pair, it is simply impossible given the capabilities of the console. ” It's too complicated “he assured in an interview with Game File
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However, this does not prevent the developer from titillating another audience: that of the PS5. “I want to add more hearts, but I don't know what color would work…”, we could read in a post on X from the manager. It was then about “Palworld”, surrounded by several hearts, with an addition of blue, in reference to the PlayStation. Obviously, nothing is official yet at this point, but it's an interesting clue for Palworld's roadmap. To be continued… Moreover, speaking of collaborations and coming back to the Nintendo Switch, we could have concluded that any agreement between Nintendo and Pocket Pair would be impossible because of their dispute. But surprise! In the same interview, Takuro Mizobe explained not having received anything from the Japanese company. So either Nintendo is behind schedule or the case is finally closed. Pocket Pair will nevertheless have to remain on guard while awaiting a final and official conclusion.