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Conditions don't allow? CEO of Palu says he prefers making independent games over AAA games

2024-08-06

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Recently, Takuro Mizobe, CEO of Pocketpair, the developer of "Metamorphosis Palu", mentioned in an interview that he prefers to make independent games rather than masterpieces that can surpass the 3A level.


According to an interview with foreign media GameSpark, Pocketpair used the revenue from the two games it had developed, Genesis Utopia and Overload Dungeon, to develop "Phantom Beast Palu". This strategy was a great success. This game that combines survival and Pokémon elements has created "tens of billions of yen" in revenue, about 70 million US dollars, enough to produce a 3A-level game.


But Takuro Mizobe said that Pocketpair's current "structure" makes it difficult to handle such a large project, and he is more interested in making smaller games: "I want to make independent games that I think are interesting."