PlatinumGames boss Atsushi Inaba has urged that the studio plans to proceed making video games within the Bayonetta collection, with out a lot of its unique creators.
The Osaka, Japan studio hasn’t launched a sport within the Bayonetta collection because the significant departure of lead developers in recent times, including series creator and co-founder Hideki Kamiya, who formed a new studio to make Okami 2. The final sport within the collection was the 2023 spin-off Origins.
The Bayonetta IP can also be not owned by Platinum, however break up between Sega and Nintendo, in an settlement that noticed its sequels launched as Wii U and Nintendo Switch exclusives.
Talking to Famitsu in one among his first interviews because the massive restructuring, Inaba was requested about the way forward for the Bayonetta collection – and strongly indicated that it’s going to have one.
“I can’t actually reply that proper now,” he mentioned, when requested about future Bayonetta video games. “We’ve got a powerful want to additional develop the character of Bayonetta and increase her world. Please sit up for seeing what type that takes sooner or later.”
Inaba was talking alongside Shift Up’s Hyung-tae Kim as a part of an interview selling its upcoming Bayonetta collaboration for Stellar Blade on Nintendo Switch 2. Platinum has but to launch a sport for the platform, however Inaba mentioned he believes “it’s a console with super potential”.
Platinum breaks silence after massive departures
Since Kamiya and different lead builders left Platinum round 2023, the studio has solely launched work-for-hire tasks like Team Ninja’s Ninja Gaiden 4, and extra work on Final Fantasy XVI, eFootball, and Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater. It’s at the moment working on a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game with Paramount.
Along with Kamiya, latest Platinum departures embrace Bayonetta Origins director Abebe Tinari, Bayonetta 3 director Yusuke Miyata, Astral Chain director Takahisa Taura, Steel Gear Rising director Kenji Saito, and Anarchy Reigns and Resident Evil character designer Masaki Yamanaka.
Bayonetta 2 director Yusuke Hashimoto additionally left Platinum to rejoin Capcom, and labored on the latest Onimusha revival. Bayonetta 1 was directed by Kamiya, who not too long ago introduced the hiring of many of the series’ original sound team. Clovers lists almost 20 Bayonetta 3 builders on its web site.
The big churn of senior workers carefully adopted the appointment of former Nintendo licensing boss Takao Yamane in 2022. Speaking to VGC the same year, Inaba mentioned the previous Nintendo supervisor’s appointment would “considerably change” the corporate.
“To this point, we’ve solely been a developer and mainly, we simply had a operate as being a improvement studio,” he mentioned. “However I believe shifting ahead, what we need to have a look at is to how we are able to create video games, talk, promote, and publish these video games to our consumer base. Reasonably than simply being a developer that solely creates video games for shoppers.”
Hideki Kamiya has beforehand mentioned he expects the Bayonetta franchise to continue without him.