As one of the gaming smash hits in 2024, Palworld is soon coming to a smartphone near you as its Japanese developer Pocketpair has signed a licensing agreement with South Korean publisher Krafton, known for PUBG Battlegrounds and The Calisto Protocol.
Palworld Coming To Smartphones
“Through this agreement, Krafton plans to expand the Palworld IP to the mobile platform, reinterpreting and adapting the core fun elements of the original game for a mobile environment. The project will be developed by the team at PUBG Studios, a creative studio under Krafton,” the publisher stated in its press release (machine-translated).
Palworld gained massive attention earlier this year due to its unique combination of creatures (called ‘Pals’) and open-world survival elements, leading to the game widely referred as “Pokémon with guns”. Naturally, this didn’t sit well with the suits and lawyers over at Nintendo, who has since waged a legal battle against the developer on the grounds of patent infringement.
The game was first released on PC and Xbox platforms this January, and later sees a subsequent release in PS5 just last week. Since then, it has amassed 10 million users on Xbox, while Steam saw 15 million copies sold and recorded the third-highest concurrent player count in history at a staggering 2.1 million players.
Pokdepinion: Let’s hope Nintendo doesn’t wipe it off from existence by then.
