This is the reason why Palworld won’t arrive on PS5… nor will it arrive soon

As you well know, Palworld is a game that exploded in popularity earlier this year. On Steam, it amassed millions of players and on Xbox, hundreds of thousands (thanks to being included in Game Pass). Everyone was playing Palworld in January and February of 2024.

The game reached 25 million players. And all of them, until the last, agreed on one thing: it was a shameless copy of Pokémon. At least, that seemed to both the most expert and the most inexperienced eyes. The designs, models, some mechanics, etc. The joking name given to him was “the Pokémon with weapons.”

For that reason, Nintendo has filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, its developer and distributor. If you’re interested in the lawsuit, here is all the information explained, including everything we know so far.

Palworld arrives on PS5… worldwide except in Japan

Sony included the PS5 release of Palworld as one of its announcements during the State of Play presentation on Tuesday night, but omitted one detail. Although the game has been released on PlayStation platforms in 68 countries and regions worldwide, Japan is not one of them.

The official Japanese account of the game said on Twitter, according to the automatic translation, that the release date in Japan “has not yet been decided,” without going into details about the reason.

Certainly, it seems that one of the reasons could be the patent infringement lawsuit that Nintendo and The Pokémon Company filed against Pocketpair, developer of Palworld, last week, but the tweet did not confirm anything about it.

We will see how they solve this problem, but it is true that Palworld is set for a second life thanks to PlayStation, a platform that has been desperate for a year to get the most viral game of all 2024. Although we do not expect success like at the beginning of the year, Sony can prepare to make money in the coming months.