In the same interview with VGC last week, PlatinumGames co-founders Atsushi Inaba and Hideki Kamiya used the company’s next self-published title Project GG apparently, touch on why it has been so quiet about some other versions.
With these others games, such as Bayonet 3, for example, it all comes down to the editor’s approach. In the case of Bayonetta 3, the publisher is Nintendo. However, when it comes to Project GG, Kamiya explains how Platinum can essentially share whatever it wants whenever it wants (no problems):
“Also, since we self – edit [Project G.G.], this time no editors get mad at me, so I’ll share things online and take screenshots whenever I want … “
When it comes to other titles (we’re using Bayonetta 3 again), it’s simply not Platinum’s decision. In saying this, Inaba points out how the company respects any approach that other publishers want to take:
“We don’t have much to say about projects that we don’t publish. And we understand that different titles require different approaches, so we respect the editor’s decisions.”
“So if there’s a difference between what we want to do with Project GG and what we normally do with other titles, it’s not a critique for these publishers: we respect their approaches. But, especially for this title, the our focus as a company is that we hope to be more open. “
So in terms of Project GG, you can expect to see and hear more than you could normally get from Platinum when working on a game released by another company.
Could this be the reason Platinum has been so narrow about Bayonetta 3? Is that why Kamiya keeps telling fans that she’s going “really well” all the time? To be fair, in the same interview, he even said that a potential 2021 update on the game wasn’t really Platinum’s “position to say”.
What do you do with the answers above? Do you think Nintendo has told Platinum not to say anything about Bayonetta 3 and can’t even tell us? You know, so eventually Nintendo may make some kind of surprise announcement and break the internet … Share your own thoughts below.