When Pocketpair's monster capturing survival adventure Palworld launched, many people compared it to Pokemon, specificallycalling it "Pokemon with guns." It's not Pocketpair's favorite comparison, according to communications director John 'Bucky' Buckley, but the thought of collecting a following of adorable monsters has nonetheless prompted a number of people to ask if Palworld would ever make it to Pokemon's platform of choice, the Nintendo Switch.
Unfortunately, according to Buckley, that's not in the cards, largely due to technical reasons. "If we could make the game work on the Switch, we would, but Palworld is a beefy game."
I spoke to Buckley at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco last week following his talk...