The consequences of Nintendo's lawsuit against PocketPay are beginning to emerge: The PS5 version of Palworld has actually disappeared from the list of games present at Tokyo Game Show 2024.. We are talking about the official list prepared by the regulatory body CESA, so it is definitely reliable.
In fact, it is not certain that the two facts are related, but the coincidences are too great not to connect them, and everyone takes it for granted. Check out the PlayStation version at the show. Also, the match was canceled the same day the case was announced.
A controversial situation
Speculation is that Pocketpair should too Block the possible release of the PS5 version Until the situation with Nintendo is clarified, but for now nothing is certain and the situation is all in flux, and apart from a few winks from the development team towards those who asked for numbers in front of the game, no announcement has been made. At the exhibition.
Pocketpair is an independent development studio based in Tokyo. Ballworld wasn't his first game, but it was certainly his most successful, selling millions of copies on Steam and millions of players on Game Pass. Called “Pokémon with guns”, it immediately attracted the attention of fans of The Pokemon Company series, who underlined many similarities with it, expecting complaints of plagiarism.
However, Nintendo's complaint is about some registered patents, so it may not have anything to do with the appearance of friends, the protagonists of Ballworld.
