Palworld creator wants to avoid "big-budget triple-A games" in the future as the hit survival game's profits are "too big for a studio with our size to handle"

Three sheep from Palworld stand behind machine guns
(Image credit: Pocketpair)

Palworld's creator wants the development studio to stay small because "big-budgꦡet triple-A games aꦐre not for us."

Palworld certainly performed like a big-budget blockbuster as the monster-taming survival game had over two million Steam players logged in at the sam👍e time, rivaling the very biggest hits on the platform. Pocketpair CEO and๊ director Takuro Mizobe now claims 💛the team won't substantially grow, despite the game's staggering success.

. "I want to make multiple small games. Big-budget triple-A games are not for us." The studio previously developed card-battler Overdungeon, party drawing game AI: Art Imposter, and the genre-blending open-worlder Craftopia, though all were relatively inexpensive projects.

Palworld itself reportedly cost around one billion yen (or $6.7 million) to develop, a number that's minuscule compared to the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:unsustainable budgets𓄧 at ot🐼her big studios. The game has since returned several billions of yen in profit, though the CEO reckons it's "too big for a studio ꦓwith our si🦩ze to handle."

Mizobe believes that smaller studios spearhead innovation in game design, and with Palworld pretty much bankrolling whatever the team works on next, Pocketpair has free reign to work on whatever it wishes in the future. Mizobe reveals that the studio has no plans to become a publicly traded company, and has had no acquisition conversations with 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Microsoft, who they partnered with on a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:successful Game Pass launch

For now, the director seems sure on how to go forward: by creating games that are fun to watch, fun to play, and fun to discuss. "Games are most fun when playing with friends," Mizobe continu♑ed. "A game without a multiplayer mode just doesn't feel right in the era we live today."

It's no surprise, then, to see PvP and a Pal versus Pal Arena heavily highlighte🐷d in 𝄹the game's content roadmap. Some other 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:"very cool things" were recently teased for the "P🤪okemon with guns" hit, too. 

In the meantime, check out this DS-style Palworld demake that is inspired by Pokemon Black and the handheld Zelda games

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