PlatinumGames, the makers of such fantastic video games as Bayonetta and Nier: Automata, are wanting into making and self-publishing video games of their very own. While they’re not saying any particular video games simply but, Platinum say they invited all workers to pitch concepts and have whittled 70-odd submitted design paperwork down to 2 concepts they’re specializing in. Yes, their very own video games are prone to provide the motion you’d anticipate from Platinum, although clearly made on smaller budgets with out the backing of massive publishers. They’re not executed with making video games for publishers, thoughts, so we must always see nonetheless extra big-budget explore-o-ramas from them too.
In an interview printed over Christmas, Platinum’s head of growth, Atsushi Inaba, told Game Informer “we’re becoming more and more interested in the idea of self-publishing and doing our own title.” He continued:
“Over the last year we’ve pretty much opened the company up to ‘Anybody can pitch a game,’ and so over the last year we’ve gotten about 70 design documents from different people. And if you’re going list out the other random ideas, the scratched stuff on paper, that’s a hell of a lot more. So this year has been about us basically diluting which stuff we wanted to focus on and not focus on, and drilling down to the point where we now have two designs that we’re genuinely focused on.”
He defined that they’re taking a look at making a sport with a crew of about twenty folks, fewer and on a smaller price range than they’re used to. But he says they’ll make the kind of sport you’d anticipate from Platinum, not “say, doing a princess-clothing-making game or something like that.” Well, they did really contemplate a sport like that.
“You know, as we got down to the selection process, there was actually a game that was kind of in that direction,” Inaba mentioned, “but when we made the final round picks, it was just like, yeah, this one’s not going do it.”
If they ever need to choose that concept again up, I’ll be ready.
Platinum have made some cracking video games since they shaped from the wreckage of Capcom’s Clover Studio in 2009. Bayonetta and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance are in all probability my favorite hack ‘n’ slash video games, Vanquish‘s cowl shooter dressing conceals intense and zippy motion, and their collaboration on Nier: Automata was one of our favourite games of 2017 (hell, so was Bayonetta now it’s lastly out on PC). These have all been made with publishers like Sega and Square Enix, and infrequently inside present fictional worlds created by different folks, however I’m actually excited to see what Platinum can do with a sport that’s absolutely their very own.
