In the same interview with VGC the other week, PlatinumGames’ co-founders Atsushi Inaba and Hideki Kamiya used the company’s upcoming self-published title Project GG to seemingly touch on why it has been so quiet on certain other releases.
With this Others games – such as Bayonetta 3for example – it all comes down to the publisher’s approach. In the case of Bayonetta 3, the publisher is Nintendo. However, if it’s anything like Project GG, Kamiya explains how Platinum can essentially share whatever it wants, whenever it wants (without getting in trouble):
“Also because we publish in-house [Project G.G.], there aren’t any publishers to get mad at me this time, so I’ll share stuff online and post screenshots whenever I want … “
When it comes to other titles (again, let’s use Bayonetta 3) it’s just not Platinum’s decision. In saying this, Inaba notes how the company respects the approach other publishers want to take:
“We don’t have much to say about projects we don’t publish. And we understand that different titles require different approaches, so we respect the publisher’s decisions.”
“So if there’s a difference between what we want to do with Project GG and what we normally do with our other titles, it’s not really a criticism for those publishers: we respect their approach. But especially for this title, our approach is like one company we hope to be more open. “
So as for Project GG, you can expect to see and hear more than you normally would get from Platinum when working on a game released by another company.
Could this be the reason why Platinum is so closed on Bayonetta 3? Is this the reason why Kamiya keeps telling fans all the time that things are going “really well”? To be fair, he even said in the same interview that a possible 2021 update on the game wasn’t quite Platinum’s “position to say”.
What do you think of the above reactions? Do you think Nintendo told you that Platinum can’t say anything about Bayonetta 3 and can’t even tell us that? You know, so Nintendo could end up making some kind of surprise announcement and breaking the internet … Share your own thoughts below.