“Nintendo felt threatened” by Palworld’s sales success and anime expansion, analyst says: “This lawsuit would never have happened if Palworld had 500 users per day”

Nintendo’s decision to file a patent infringement lawsuit against Palworld developer Pocketpair likely “would never have happened” with a smaller game, according to one analyst.

In conversation with GamesRadar+ about Nintendo’s Palworld LawsuitDr. Serkan Toto says that a smaller game would likely have gone unnoticed by Nintendo and that even the company’s “fearsome” legal team is said to have left Pocketpair alone“This lawsuit would never have happened if Palworld had 500 users a day on Steam,” Toto says. “(Nintendo) would have said, ‘Okay, whatever, let’s leave these guys alone; the game will die.'”