“We’re looking into it and feeling litigious.”

Nothing will come of it. Nintendo is basically THE most litigious game company in the world. There is no way Nintendo didn’t know about Palworld before the release date. The original trailer 3 years ago was way more than enough of they wanted to do anything. The Pal models in that trailer were even closer to various Pokemon than what is in the actual release. If they thought they had a case for it, they would have had a better case back then.

Japan does not have fair use, it’s one of the main reasons Nintendo is so litigious and successful at it. Unlike many of their lawsuits however, the Palworld developers are in Japan as well, so it wouldn’t even be an international lawsuit. If Nintendo thought they had a case like the armchair experts seem to think, they would have been all over this already.

This is just an official statement so ignorant people stop flooding them with stupidity because they hadn’t said anything.