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Rumor: Platinum Games suffering from internal issues, developers leaving
Punished Miku
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It was over after Bayonetta 0 bombed. Literally one of the best games they ever made. No one noticed.
Mhmmm 2077
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so I guess Project G.G. IS not A GO-GO anymore.
digoutyoursoul
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Surprised Nintendo has never purchased them
LectureMaster
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Nintendo, time to do it!
Hawk The Slayer
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This!
Miyazaki’s Slave
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Are you referring to Cereza and the Demon?
Jeff Spicoli
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It was expected, after Kamiya leaving.
Unknown Soldier
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For what reason? None of the games they made for Nintendo have ever sold any copies
NieR Automata was made for Square Enix, Metal Gear Rising was made for Konami
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Ridicululzz
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Leaving and joining Kamiya's new studio maybe?
Punished Miku
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Yessir
tkscz
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The Switch version of Beyonetta 1, 2 and 3 sold over a million for a small budget. Astral Chain also sold over a million units.
They're a small developer in the grand scheme of things so they don't spend hundreds of millions of dollars making games.
Their games that were published by Nintendo did as much in sales as the Xeno games from Monolith, with the exception of Cereza and the Demon which was so far removed from Beyonetta gameplay wise I'm not surprised Beyo fans didn't buy it.
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This is not surprising at all, all the key developers left there, who subsequently opened their own studios, taking some of the people with them, plus Babylon's Fall really battered them. In fact, of the founding fathers, only Atsushi Inaba remained there, who, in principle, never really got involved in game development and was just a producer. Plus another alarm bell was when they started making Granblue Fantasy: Relink, but something went wrong there and eventually Cygames decided to refuse their services, and made the game themselves, the reasons were not written,this is exactly why there was a delay in the release of the game (Co-developed from 2016 until February 2019 when development moved fully to Osaka Cygames). That's why the studio is clearly in trouble, and I think this isn't the last sad news about them.
In order to have a reason to buy someone, there must be people with weight or games with a strong IP, Platinum at the moment has no people with weight or strong IP.
In order to have a reason to buy someone, there must be people with weight or games with a strong IP, Platinum at the moment has no people with weight or strong IP.
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Reizo Ryuu
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clover > seeds inc > platinum games > clovers > ?
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Mister Wolf
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It's over..........
Most likely, they all ran away from Platinum, obviously not because of a good life.
Thick Thighs Save Lives
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Hopefully they'll manage to release an Astral Chain sequel for the Switch 2 before the studio disbands. 
kevboard
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Hopefully they'll manage to release an Astral Chain sequel for the Switch 2 before the studio disbands.
yup. I just started Bayonetta 3, got it for my birthday a few weeks back, and seeing the Astral Chain eastereggs in there made me remember how much I loved that game and how awesome a Switch 2 sequel with less of a hardware restriction would be.
Platinum really feels like their games are held back by the Switch at this point... the fact that Bayonetta 3 even works on that hardware and targets 60fps is already a miracle lol.
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Pejo
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I feel like they never properly recovered from Babylon's Fall. Despite most of their games not being sales number darlings, I think BF really spooked would-be collaborators and financers. They really needed a breakout hit in the past few games and never got it.
Still, it'd be a shame if they imploded, but how many of the truly talented devs are left there anyways?
Still, it'd be a shame if they imploded, but how many of the truly talented devs are left there anyways?
They didn't close only because Nintendo picked them up. Because they ran around offering their games and Bayonetta (Microsoft, Sony) and everyone except Nintendo, refused them (Nintendo ended up giving them funding, bought the rights to Bayonetta from them. Now part of the IP belongs to Sega and part to Nintendo, Platinum no longer owns it), they weren't interesting to anyone.
That's why they still work only thanks to Nintendo =)
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YeulEmeralda
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Maybe start releasing games on PC and PS5.
BiohazardX95
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Nintendo doesn't own Bayonetta, they have the publishing right to Bayonetta 2 and 3 but Sega owns the IP enterily.
Danjin44
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If you expecting Automata 2 you never going to get that, Taro never does direct sequels.
The only direct sequel we got from that series was Drakengard 2 and that wasn’t even directed by Yoko Taro.
There are 2 problems here, in that essentially they were always used simply as working thugs for developing games for other IPs. As a result, they were unable to create a good portfolio of their IPs because they were constantly busy with other people's games. Well, the fact that they actually sold the rights to their largest IP is also not good.
The second problem is that some people think that after Babylon's Fall they spoiled their relations with Square Enix. This game banged very hard both for them and for Square Enix.
Punished Miku
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Nintendo paid the bills for that game. Gamers chose to skip it.
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Werewolf Jones
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Just shut it down and let the talent go back to Capcom. Now Inafune fucked off and they aren't ashamed of making Japanese games again it's time to come home.
March Climber
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You guys are behind on the news and you are asking for Nintendo to acquire a hollow shell.
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diffusionx
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Port infinite space before you die k thx
Nintendo doesn't own the Bayonetta IP, Sega does. Nintendo owns the publishing to Bayo 2 & 3.
Reizo Ryuu
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This is not true, Sega has always owned it and they own it fully, nintendo doesn't own anything, they only have the publishing rights for two and three.
Papa_Wisdom
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Some would say they are being “scale downed”
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Sounds like some of them heard / knew about Kamiya and CLOVERS studio and want to go there.
mèx
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What the fuck... He was the director of Astral Chain, right?
Dire times ahead for Platinum Games... I hope they manage to pull through somehow, their games have a unique touch.
tkscz
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1. They tried Sony, Sony refused.
2. Kamiya is back at Capcom and reopened Clover studios. I'm praying for a new Viewtiful Joe.
Miyazaki’s Slave
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Yeah, totally agree there. I've never referred to it as 0 so I thought I was missing something. Def a great platinum game!
Maybe Capcom will scoop them up with the announcement of Okami Sequel.
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