Hideki Kamiya Thanks Yoko Taro for “Saving” PlatinumGames with Nier: Automata

NieR: Automata has brough its Director Yoko Taro back under the spotlight, but he certainly wasn't the only one to rightfully benefit from the game's success. PlatinumGames certainly received high praise as well, and Co-Founder Hideki Kamiya took to Twitter today to give thanks.

[PhoenixUp]

PlatinumGames hadn't put out a new standout title since Bayonetta 2 in 2014 until Nier: Automata arrived

[darthv72]

Would be sweet if they made sequels to some of their previous games like metal gear rising. That is a fast and fun hack n slash.

[franwex]

Technically Konami could hire them to make a follow up. In fact, they probably should.

[naruga]

good to hear from them they r continuing ......after the whole MS fiasco (with MS being completely responsible for it) , it was obvious they had existential- financial problems....goood they found safe console refuggee in PS keeping them alive .....

[BigWan78]

@naruga...

So MS should have just kept allowing PlatinumGames to steal from them...

u sound foolish...

[Liqu1d]

@BigWan78 You're the one who sounds foolish making claims with no evidence to defend a company that doesn't care about you.

[FriedGoat]

Who knows what deal they had in place, Xbox one is simply not a good gamble to make exclusive content for considering the opposition is leagues ahead. To invest all of their time into scalebound would have been a mistake, although it is sad scalebound will not see the light of day. At the end of the day they are a business.

[BlackOni]

Thing is, not a lot of folks know or understand that Microsoft gave Platinum a ton of chances to make good on their promise to produce a product worth the investment Micosoft put in. In that span of time, Platinum took on, and created legend of Korra, Transformers Devastation, teenage mutant ninja turtles, and Nier Automata (one of my favorite games of all time). And in that time, still hadn't shown much progress on their title promised 4-5 years ago. So can we really be mad at Microsoft for cutting it?

[DarXyde]

BlackOni,

Of the games you listed (Transformers, Korra, TMNT, and Nier Automata) Kamiya had no real involvement. His attention was on Scalebound, which is unsurprising since he unapologetically loves dragons. In the meantime, Platinum needed revenue coming in via other projects. Three small ones and one big one with Square Enix's help. It just didn't materialize and I'm pretty sure they had their best talent on it. I'm pretty disappointed. That game was the biggest reason I bought an Xbox.

I can understand why Microsoft cut it, but I also believe that this was something Kamiya REALLY cared about and wanted perfection above all of his previous projects.

I don't exactly disagree, but there is certainly context.

[-Foxtrot]

Bayonetta please :)

[gamer7804]

for Xbox and Playstation this time though...

[Activemessiah]

I can see Nintendo taking the third one for themselves.

[GordonKnight]

Nintendo really just needs to buy platinum games along with monolith

[gamer7804]

@GordonKnight i don't think platinum wants to be owned by anyone honestly, and that would be awful for such an underpowered system to get rights to those games which could look and run so amazingly on pspro and xbox x

[Abriael]

@GordonKnight: no thanks. We really don't need another studio having to suffer from Nintendo's "localization" by default.

[PhoenixUp]

When did Platinum need saving?

Did Scalebound's cancellation do that much of a toll on them

[GameBoyColor]

they put a bunch of crapware out in between bayo2 and nier, plus the cancellation. They must've been feeling the effects.

[Erik7357]

I mean they were compensated by Microsoft for the development time into it I'm sure. Although it was still devastating to see a game they were working on cancled for them

[NecoTehSergal]

Lotta their new games were really dumped on, basically the tl;dr that reviewers and critics were saying is that Platinum games became a one-trick pony, where games like Bayonetta and Metal Gear Rising were staples that showed them at their best - the many games they pushed out inbetween were just shovelware which were just the same run-of-the-mill combat systems, copy-pasted, that their efforts were extremely selective and inconsistent.

Nier helped, you could say, revive them again because of the 'Filler games' that the pushed inbetween the ones they're praised for. The moral lesson Platinum needs to feel is that they need to stick behind a good project that they can invest safely in and not try to tackle so much at once only to have Quantity over Quality.

[gamer7804]

scale bound they were paid some by MS to develop it, but its cancellation tarnished them, they had a lot of other titles in between then that weren't a success, tmnt, transformers, wonderful 101, star fox

[DivineAssault]

Theyre a great team.. It just sucks Bayonetta "MIGHT" be exclusive to nintendo.. Rumors of part 3 are circulating with the remasters going to switch..

[darthv72]

Then get a switch to play it. Seems simple enough.

[Tapani]

Yeah Switch Remasters for Bayo 1-2 and Bayo 3 for PS4 Pro / One X :P

[DivineAssault]

I have the wii u & switch. Doesnt mean others arent missing out because of its exclusivity though.. Especially since its so hard to find..

[Erik7357]

Well you wouldn't even have bayonetta 2 if Nintendo did nothing and I DOUBT the third one will be made without Nintendo funding it as well .

Neir plays very similar to bayonetta anyway

[Theyellowflash30]

Nier doesn't play like Bayonetta at all. lol But I agree that Nintendo is probably funding Bayo3

[Michiel1989]

I have yet to find these so called rumors. Any proof of the rumors (sounds weird I know).Also a remaster for Bayonetta seems kinda unlikely to me. It never got that popular as they hoped it would

It would be a bad move for platinum to stay exclusive, means less money in the long run

[DivineAssault]

Platinum wont be exclusive to nintendo but the Bayo series might.. Also the rumors are easy to find.. The switch is much more likely to sell than the wii u so im sure nintendo wont let a great game like Bayo 2 go to waste..

[bluefox755]

Nah, Bayo 2 was successful enough that they'd be crazy to limit the game to Switch.

[C_Ali88]

Why is it so hard to grasp that Nintendo owns the right to Bayo2?? No other console will get it unless Nintendo gives the green light. Which is unlikely!

Given that Bayo1 and 2 together are only on one console it would seem to me that Bayonetta 3 Switch is the ONLY logical choice for the series to be whole!

http://www.tssznews.com/201...

https://twitter.com/pg_kami...

This one being the nail in the coffin!!

http://nintendotoday.com/hi...

[DarkKaine]

Everyone's a winner here. Thank you platinum for saving NieR :)

[ifrit_caress]

Platinumgames has quite a few good games under their name. They may not be Square Enix or Naughty Dog but I think they are a respectable dev team.

[Diffraction_Fos]

I had no interest in playing Bayonetta-type games and I thought Nier was in the same bracket as mindless linear hack-and-slash shit. But after playing it, I found it surprisingly fun and interesting. Maybe I'll go and try Bayonetta now.

[PhantomTommy]

It hurts me to read your description of hack-and-slash games! But it's awesome that Nier is turning people on to similar titles. There's nothing quite as satisfying as mastering the combat in a good character action/hack-and-slash game, and the really good ones like Bayonetta and Devil May Cry 3 are anything but "mindless". I hope you do pick it up and enjoy it, it deserves a bigger audience.

[Imalwaysright]

Do that and then go for Vanquish and Metal Gear Revengeance. These guys are some of the best at doing gameplay in this industry.

[jaymacx]

Platinum's main problem outside of the cancellation of Scalebound was them taking on contracts with Activsion. While the games (Transformers and TMNT) appeared as AAA, they failed to have any real depth due to short development time and budget given to them.

I am glad they could redeem themselves with their recent efforts.

[FallenAngel1984]

It's gonna be awkward if Drakengard 4 can't live up to this level of quality

[theshredded]

My GOTY, sure there's Persona and Zelda but those two are expected to deliver and be good games meanwhile Nier Automata has succeeded in shattering my expectations and going above. I'm hyped for their next game.