Palworld Cost Less Than $7 Million To Make - Coming To More Platforms

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The company is in talks to bring Palworld to more platforms, beyond Steam and Game Pass, and it'd be open to consider offers for partnership or acquisition, Mizobe said. It has not, however, engaged in acquisition talks with Microsoft. "We are and will remain a small studio," he said. "I want to make multiple small games. Big-budget triple-A games are not for us." Mizobe, who is chief executive officer and owns the entire company, sees small studios as the biggest pioneers in game design.

Palworld cost less than ¥1 billion ($6.7 million) to make and has returned tens of billions of yen in profit, an amount that is "too big for a studio with our size to handle," Mizobe said. The company doesn't plan a spending spree on more staff or fancier offices, said the CEO, who'd previously been a tech engineer at JPMorgan. Mizobe doesn't plan to offer shares in Pocketpair on publicly traded markets.

The CEO isn't confident that Pocketpair can create another game as wildly popular as Palworld, which had more than 2 million people simultaneously playing at one point, rivaling the biggest and best titles on PC. But he's sure about the winning recipe for games today.

"Games are most fun when playing with friends," Mizobe said. "A game without a multiplayer mode just doesn't feel right in the era we live today."

That's the recipe that more devs are gonna start chasing. Which is refreshing to me if it brings an end to this overly cinematic nonsense. Oh, and I'm pretty damn sure we won't see Palworld on a Nintendo platform lol

Wasn't this game on Game Pass?😏

I suppose you would be correct on that point.

No shit. It looks like a student project made during the summer vacation. I do like ceo's mentallity about their success, tho. Also LOL at @tdkmillsy thinking its not coming to the ps4 and ps5🤡🤡🤡🤡What a goofball.

Well yeah. Low budget games and Game Pass go together like peas and carrots.

Yep! Like Lies of P, Plagues Tale, Yakuza, Persona etc.😏

I can see Palworld coming to Nintendo Switch and opening the doors for long time PokeFans who is looking for a successor like style.

It was fun while it lasted. But it didnt last long.

I see Nintendo doing the exact opposite

They should remake Craftopia of j the Palworld engine and style.

Underrated game that never got finished before they moved to Palworld. Art style was tough to deal with at times

@BenjaminBanklin said:

@davillain said:

I can see Palworld coming to Nintendo Switch and opening the doors for long time PokeFans who is looking for a successor like style.

I see Nintendo doing the exact opposite

I would think GameFreak be the one's to slamming the doors than Nintendo😅

Always glad to see smaller games (relatively speaking) do so well.

Im surprised it cost 7 million, all they did was copy and steal assets.

btw are we getting a pokemon game this year? I really want to see some extreme drama like the last meme game they launched.

They did? why has Nintendo not taken them to court then?

Yeah, it does look terrible.

Because they don't make emulators

With success comes greedy bastard syndrome.

I will forever root for low cost games to trounce the higher priced competition. It means the developers aren't hiding behind anything but player engagement and gameplay.... Look at Vampire Survivors. A more engaging game with longer legs than anything Sony or Microsoft has produced in years and it requires one button to play.

I've not tried Palworld, but it breathes hope into smaller developer teams that if they stick to quality gameplay experiences gamers will reward them...

This game spanks sony's IPs in sales. It takes Sony 250m, long ass time, loads of discounts and PS+ giveaways to get pal world kind of numbers.

These guys are swimming in money

yeah... I thought the narrative was that "studios can't make money on Game Pass"?

Isn't that what the now-disgraced Moon Studios CEO said a week or two ago?

15 million copies at $30 each = $450 million revenue

That's 64x return-on-investment.

This could very well be the most profitable game of this generation.

Another much in demand game on GamePass

The service that keeps on delivering what gamers want.

Bu bu bu but its not coming out on the ps4 and ps5🤡🤡🤡🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡🤡

@hardwenzen: bu bu but it's a game that has no legs and will soon be forgotten.

You desperate little child that swaps and changes to try and stay relevant.