Platinum Games is increasing, and it has its eye on reside service-style games.
The third announcement in Platinum Games‘ massive Platinum 4 marketing campaign was made this morning. The Osaka-based studio is opening a brand new department in Tokyo particularly targeted on reside operations.
In a blog post, studio head, Atsushi Inaba, defined that Platinum is within the mannequin of games that proceed to evolve with new content material months and years after launch.
“So far, the name Platinum Games has been nearly synonymous with single-player action games,” mentioned Inaba. “But going forward, we’re looking to expand into new genres and styles of play. One of these new challenges for us is console live ops game development.”
The information doesn’t make it clear whether or not this work goes into a selected, unannounced challenge. Only that the Japanese developer is considering exploring that fashion of game growth. The developer did affirm, at the least, that that is all for console games.
Platinum mentioned the latest funding from Tencent has empowered it to lastly take this step, in addition to begin creating Project GG in earnest.
The Tokyo department opens formally in April, however it already has just a few group members.
Although Platinum will probably be self-publishing these tasks, it additionally stays considering working with third-party publishers. The studio is at the moment juggling Bayonetta 3 for Nintendo, and Babylon’s Fall for Square Enix.
