Who’s ready to capture some Pokémon-looking creatures and force them into labor camps to manufacture assault rifles? As announced in the new State of Play, PlayStation 5 players can now join in the Palworld fun with a port out on Sony’s platform just a week after maker Pocketpair was sued by Nintendo for alleged patent infringement. The survival crafting sim exploded in popularity on PC via Steam and Xbox Series X/S via Game Pass at the start of 2024 despite only being in Early Access. Players fight whimsical creatures and capture them to help build bases and take on tougher monsters with multiplayer raids reminiscent of an MMO.
While the millions of concurrent players it had at launch have since moved on, Palworld continues to be a force to be reckoned with in the multiplayer live service space, such that Nintendo decided to finally sue the Pokémon-inspired game eight months later citing patent infringement. “Nintendo will continue to take necessary actions against any infringement of its intellectual property rights including the Nintendo brand itself, to protect the intellectual properties it has worked hard to establish over the years,” the company wrote in a statement at the time. “At this moment, we are unaware of the specific patents we are accused of infringing upon, and we have not been notified of such details,” responded Pocketpair in its own statement.
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