Pokemon's legal feud with Pocketpair has been no secret, but that doesn't mean that the development team isn't willing to consider an appearance on Nintendo's next home console.

During a conversation with IGN at the recently concluded Game Developers Conference, communications director John Buckley said Palworld won’t be coming to Switch because the open-world, crafting-focused Pokémon-like is “a beefy game.” A potential Switch 2 release, however, is “worth considering” if Nintendo’s next console is “beefy enough.”

When Palworld blew up last year, one of the most common comparisons that fans made was to Nintendo’s Pokémon series. While there has been controversy