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Palworld boss says a Switch version ‘might be hard for technical reasons’ (www.videogameschronicle.com)
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[-] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 26 points 4 months ago

It definitely is not an optimized game. It doesn't run really well on my ROG Ally, so I can't imagine trying to do it on a Switch.

[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago

To be fair to the ROG, it doesn't run really well on anything

[-] Red_October@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

The technical reasons including but not limited to "Nintendo told us to go fuck ourselves."

[-] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 months ago

Because it has the graphical horsepower of an iPhone 4s

[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

It does seem like it would be an amount of work.

[-] Shadow@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

Would Nintendo even allow it?

[-] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Why not, they are one store front with prolific shovelware still.

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 2 points 4 months ago

I think Shadow is referring to Palworld's similarities to Pokemon. There had been a lot of tension over whether or not Nintendo would try to sue the Palworld dev, so it stands to reason that selling something so contentious on Nintendo's own platform might be a bit awkward.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 14 points 4 months ago

It was only contentious among fans. Nintendo literally said they didn't give a single shit about Palworld.

[-] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

What tension? Fans being stupid?

Nintendo is litigious yea, but there’s hundreds of emulators out there that haven’t been sued, they only sue people who do blatantly illegal stuff they can sue them for. What has palworld done that’s illegal?

Emulators are legal, so they leave the legal ones, they go after the ones perpetuating the illegal parks, like Yuzu.

[-] brlemworld@lemmy.world -4 points 4 months ago

Why is this even a question? Nintendo shouldn't have any say whatsoever on what people get to play on their own fucking hardware.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago

But they do because they control their developer ecosystem.

I agree that consoles should allow competing stores, but that's not the current reality.

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