A stunning success Palworld has turned its developer, PocketPair, into a temptation for big tech companies because it’s a small company with just 55 employees. This has caused rumors surrounding the developer about its possible acquisition by some industry giant, so its CEO and founder Takuro Mizobe has come forward to clarify some things.

Mizobe said he is open to partnering with or even purchasing PocketPair, however, denied that his company is currently in talks to be acquired by Microsoft. The alleged interest of the Redmond giant is plausible, considering that Palworld was successful in Game Pass, where it has been available since launch and has become the most successful third-party game in Xbox history.

Palworld It is very likely, if not, the biggest hit in indie video game history. PocketPair title achieved 25 million players, with 15 million of them being people who purchased it through Steam. It peaked at two million players on the Valve-owned platform and remains one of the top ten most popular online games with 120,000 players.

According to some statements by Takuro Mizobe to Bloomberg, PocketPair’s intention seems to be to remain “a small studio. I want to make some small games. “Big budget triple-A games are not for us. The manager acknowledges that the company made much more than its $6.7 million budget Palworldbut he doesn’t plan to hire more employees with those either, or make it public.

If Mizobe’s claims are true, PocketPair’s intention for the immediate future would be to remain an independent company and with the same formula that made it successful., which we will see if it will be possible to repeat it with other titles as well. Here we have the case of Mojang Sutdios, which failed to repeat the great success Minecraft with any other creation of his.

Success Palworld It is mainly based on the fact that the design of its creature is heavily inspired by Pokémon, which motivated The Pokémon Company to consider suing PocketPair for infringement of its intellectual properties, without taking any action at this time. However, The Pokémon Company’s suspicions may increase Microsoft’s temptation, as the acquisition of PocketPair would be seen by many as a blow to Nintendo.