How difficult would it be to sidestep the Palworld lawsuit, anyway?
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Coromon on android is literally just Pokémon Emerald with disks instead of balls. Nintendo is oddly petty, as if Palworld or any of those other games actually hurt overall sales of Pokémon.
Yeah Coromon is probably the most direct clone, and it works pretty well if that's what you want. Heck the "alternative evolution" idea is one I think more games should copy, same with Shiny being a sliding scale of strength instead of an absurd rarity cosmetic.
But as we learned from the Switch emulation or the AM2R situation, they seem to throw their weight around when its directly harming them instead of aggressively like Disney would. They let the Switch emulators piss on their feet for years until people started spamming them with Tears of the Kingdom videos before its release and it absolutely lost them sales.
I am 100% certain they wouldn't have cared about Palworld if people didn't run that campaign of "Pokemon sucks compared to this!" loud enough that they couldn't ignore it.
Not that that justifies their actions in a lot of these cases, but people really ignore how much they provoke it.
Palworld is more like Ark than Pokémon other than the creature designs. Pokémon isnt a survival game, even Arceus or whatever wasnt.
Of course, but literally no one would have cared if not for the designs evoking Pokemon (but with guns!) because there are dozens of Ark clones over the years and it wasn't even a particularly good one. And even Ark only got where it did because "omg I want to tame a dinosaur!" itself years earlier.
But the deluge of Pokemon comparisons when Palworld came out was absurd. It was the entirety of its marketing, even if that was through word of mouth instead of deliberate, and as such it became the "Pokemon game if it was good!" to compare against Scarlet/Violet's myriad of technical issues and limitations.
Which is why I maintain the only reason Nintendo cares, it because people threw the egg on their face. And now they are stomping it with their full might out of that humiliation. Sure there are business gains from doing so, but that's secondary to their pride.