A worrying quantity of recreation administrators, together with those for Bayonetta 3 and Astral Chain, have ditched PlatinumVideo games, nevertheless it’s not recognized in the event that they’re becoming a member of Hideki Kamiya’s new studio or not.
It’s not onerous to really feel pessimistic about the way forward for PlatinumVideo games. The departure of co-founder and Bayonetta creator Hideki Kamiya in 2023 was surprising however on the finish of the day he was nonetheless only one man.
A yr later, although, and round 25 of his colleagues have additionally jumped ship to affix him at his new studio, Clovers, to work on the upcoming Ōkami sequel for Capcom.
PlatinumVideo games itself has by no means defined precisely who has left and who has stayed, solely making an attempt to guarantee followers that every part was superb. But now Kamiya himself seems to have confirmed one other 5 departures from the studio, all of whom had been outstanding administrators.
In a phase of his newest YouTube video, Kamiya shared footage of what he describes as a ‘former PlatinumVideo games administrators’ consuming social gathering,’ insinuating everybody in attendance is now not employed on the studio.
The 5 figures in query are:
Aside from Miyata, these administrators had been all suspected to have left after they eliminated references to PlatinumVideo games from their social media accounts. It’s unclear if any of them at the moment are employed at Clovers with Kamiya or are in search of different alternatives elsewhere.
Regardless, it’s a far worse scenario than we initially anticipated, since this implies PlatinumVideo games has misplaced key individuals behind all of its most outstanding video games.
As far as we will inform, this solely leaves Ryoya Sakabe, the director of the delisted cell recreation World Of Demons, and probably Takahisa Sugiyama, co-director on Babylon’s Fall. Not precisely Platinum’s most celebrated expertise.
Coincidentally, PlatinumVideo games has additionally up to date its portfolio on its web site and, for no matter cause, scrubbed a minimum of 13 video games from it. All that’s left are the Bayonetta video games, NieR: Automata, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Astral Chain, Vanquish (whose personal director, Shinji Mikami, left in 2010), The Wonderful 101, and the newly introduced Ninja Gaiden 4.
Some of the eliminated video games make sense. The likes of Transformers Devastation and The Legend Of Korra recreation have been delisted for years, so maybe Platinum felt there was no level promoting video games individuals can’t purchase any extra.
However, this appears to substantiate that the Ultraman impressed superhero title Project G.G. has been cancelled. This was Kamiya’s pet venture and it was by no means clear if his departure meant Platinum would proceed with out its growth with out him. It appears like the reply isn’t any, although.
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