Platinum Games will be anounce a new game this year.
In a wide-ranging interview with IGN, game developer legend Hideki Kamiya reveals why he left Bayonetta maker PlatinumGames and what's next.
Long shot here but with him out of the picture... MS could get PG to finish Scalebound. As it is, the project was shelved and Ms still had all the work they had done up to that point. HK's mismanagement of multiple projects is what caused MS to pull the plug, but I feel they still wanted to get it done at some point.
“My work with Platinum Games was based on a relationship of trust with the company. I decided to leave because I felt that the direction the company was heading in was different from my beliefs as a developer. Without that element of trust, I couldn’t continue working there, and so I left, so that I could continue working in what I consider to be the right way.
“I don't think of games as products, but rather as works of art. I want to put my artistry into games and deliver games that could only be made by Hideki Kamiya, so that players can enjoy Hideki Kamiya games exactly as they are. I decided to leave the company and forge my own path, to continue making games that reflect the developers who made them.”
Hideki Kamiya will be leaving PlatinumGames on October 12, 2023.
Phil better have that check ready. Hideki expertise and knowledge would be a great asset to the Xbox team and can possibly bring growth in the Asia region.
How sudden, I wonder what changed.
Maybe after the certain story choices and direction for Bayonetta 3 they can hopefully make it more like the first two games.
i've always felt platinum games lack of growth/failures can be traced back to kamiya. He seems like a very troublesome person to work with
Vice president Hideki Kamiya, director Yosuke Matsumura and producer Yuji Nakao discuss the standalone release.
this is most likely Hideki's new game. He told everybody through an interview that he will announce and possibly release a game later in 2012 to actually prove that he is more than just a guy that twitters. Hideki wants to move on.
I really want Bayonetta 2... :) and after some time God Hand 2, Viewtiful Joe and Vanquish please..! :) oh and a REAL Madword 2, not Anarchy reigns... pleaaaaase :)
I dunno. Bayonetta's gameplay was rock solid, no arguing there, but the storyline and cutscene presentation just annoyed the hell out of me.
Hopefully he'll make an action game with a more serious overtone. Maybe even gothic visuals like Chaos Legion or Devil May Cry.
I hope this ends up being Bayonetta 2. With DMC going in a more Westernized direction we need this series to pick up the slack in the batsh*t crazy Japanese hack 'n slash department.
Bayonetta sucked ass. Here's hoping he's not a one trick pony this gen.