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At the Bitsummer 7 Spirits conference in Kyoto, Platinum Games Executive Producer Atsushi Inaba and Takahisa Taura, director of the upcoming Astral Chain, talked about the company’s philosophy, as well as what it’s like to work on various new IPs and how they try to maintain the passion across so many project. It was Inaba, however, who dropped a big nuggest of information saying the company has multiple games in development that had not been announced as of yet (thanks to Twinfinite for transcribing and our own Abriael_GN )

As of now there are three projects known that the company is working on: Astral Chain for Nintendo Switch (which releases August 30th), Bayonetta 3 on the same platform (which as of now seems to be delayed) and Babylon Falls that was announced last year for PlayStation 4 and PC but has gone MIA since. The company has always juggled several projects, but seems like they have even more on their plate than usual. We know they want to start making their own IPs (as it stands, none of the IPs the company has ever worked on belongs to them), so it’ll be interesting to see what they have for the future.

PlatinumGames Has Several Unannounced Games In Development, Says Producer

gamingbolt.com

 

[blackjon24]

One of these games will have to suffer, can't all be slam dunks

 

[Danjin44]

I love their games and currently Astral Chain is biggest one I'm looking forward the most so I hope we see new gameplay trailer and hopefully shadow drop the demo.

 

[Mista]

I love their games and currently Astral Chain is biggest one I'm looking forward the most so I hope we see new gameplay trailer and hopefully shadow drop the demo.

Me too. Very excited for Astral Chain and waiting for a new gameplay

 

[ExpandKong]

That’s great for real but I wanna hear more about that one announced game, Bayonetta 3.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Gravity rush 3 With Platinum Games and Japan Studio is my dream .

 

[Mista]

Gravity rush 3 With Platinum Games and Japan Studio is my dream .

That’s a bullet in my heart. I love Gravity Rush in every way possible

I noticed we three Danjin44 have almost the same taste!

 

[Smiles and Cries]

This is far from good news I don't see Platinum Games as a huge company that can take on 5 projects at the same time and have them all come out well. Something will come out meh.

And how was Bayo3 delayed? I don't think it even had an official date.

 

[EDMIX]

At the Bitsummer 7 Spirits conference in Kyoto, Platinum Games Executive Producer Atsushi Inaba and Takahisa Taura, director of the upcoming Astral Chain, talked about the company’s philosophy, as well as what it’s like to work on various new IPs and how they try to maintain the passion across so many project. It was Inaba, however, who dropped a big nuggest of information saying the company has multiple games in development that had not been announced as of yet (thanks to Twinfinite for transcribing and our own Abriael_GN )

As of now there are three projects known that the company is working on: Astral Chain for Nintendo Switch (which releases August 30th), Bayonetta 3 on the same platform (which as of now seems to be delayed) and Babylon Falls that was announced last year for PlayStation 4 and PC but has gone MIA since. The company has always juggled several projects, but seems like they have even more on their plate than usual. We know they want to start making their own IPs (as it stands, none of the IPs the company has ever worked on belongs to them), so it’ll be interesting to see what they have for the future.

PlatinumGames Has Several Unannounced Games In Development, Says Producer

gamingbolt.com

smh, seriously they need to slow down. The biggest issue with this team is they keep flooding their studio with titles and we keep getting bad releases. I like the team, but I won't ignore all those bad games as its very clear they are taking on more then they clearly can handle.

Many of you know I don't care that much for MS, but even I have to side with MS with Scalebound as looking at Transformers, Star Fox Zero....where there is smoke, there is fire. I believe the issue likely really was Platinum themselves. I love Nier and it might be one of my favorite games this gen, but I have a feeling it was only as good as it was and not a wreck because Platinum wasn't the only team working on it, if left to JUST THEM, who knows.

They even got removed from that Cy Game recently. So I hope the team does better, but they need to relax and slow down on all those projects and actually focus on what they can. I'd never have this issue if it wasn't for all of those games they were removed from, cancelled, bad performance etc


"how they try to maintain the passion across so many project" smh, and how is that turning out for them thus far?

 

[sublimit]

smh, seriously they need to slow down. The biggest issue with this team is they keep flooding their studio with titles and we keep getting bad releases. I like the team, but I won't ignore all those bad games as its very clear they are taking on more then they clearly can handle.

Many of you know I don't care that much for MS, but even I have to side with MS with Scalebound as looking at Transformers, Star Fox Zero....where there is smoke, there is fire. I believe the issue likely really was Platinum themselves. I love Nier and it might be one of my favorite games this gen, but I have a feeling it was only as good as it was and not a wreck because Platinum wasn't the only team working on it, if left to JUST THEM, who knows.

They even got removed from that Cy Game recently. So I hope the team does better, but they need to relax and slow down on all those projects and actually focus on what they can. I'd never have this issue if it wasn't for all of those games they were removed from, cancelled, bad performance etc


"how they try to maintain the passion across so many project" smh, and how is that turning out for them thus far?

Yup that was my thinking as well. I'm afraid that they are biting more than they can chew.

So far they have been/are working in these games:
Granblue Fantasy ReLink
Astral Chain
Bayonetta 3
Babylon's Fall

I really hope they manage to to succeed with all these projects and those they haven't announced yet but unless they have been expanding their teams like crazy i'm afraid it's going to be very hard.

 

[Enjay]

They probably had to rip off a few IP holders to fund their priority releases IE what the purpose of their nickelodeon games were.

 

[mejin]

I wonder why Sony never got a partnership with them for a single project.

 

[Zephir]

Hopefully they get a lot of help, because working on Astral Chains and Bayonetta 3 looks already pretty time consuming, how can they tackle even more stuff? Even smartphone games require resources....

As long as they don't become another Telltale...

 

[MDSLKTR]

And its criminal that none of those projects are a sequel to revengeance

 

[ProgenitorCastle]

Hopefully within the next few days, some exciting announcements come out from PlatinumGames!

 

[cireza]

They already confirmed recently being on multiple games, nothing new here.

Doubtful that they can handle many games and deliver at once. But they know their stuff better than I, obviously.

 

[Verdanth]

Lets fucking go!

 

[Rodga]

Scalebound Returns this E3

 

[Danjin44]

Scalebound Returns this E3

And it’s renamed Drakengard 4 and it’s directed by Yoko Taro.

 

[Labolas]

I want more Platinum games

 

[Petopia]

Screw that granblue fantasy fighting gme on to that platinum made granblue game.

 

[Starlight Lotice]

Given they wrapped up Granblue ReLink and Astral Chain is likely getting finished.

Bayonetta 3 will likely reuse assets as well.

This is good news!

I bet NieR 3 is in development too.

 

[Petopia]

Given they wrapped up Granblue ReLink and Astral Chain is likely getting finished.

Bayonetta 3 will likely reuse assets as well.

This is good news!

I bet NieR 3 is in development too.

Its the switch how shinier is bayonetta gonna get nothing on par to the ps4 and xbone thats for sure, that and the series not really selling that well on that platform to begin with.

 

[Starlight Lotice]

Its the switch how shinier is bayonetta gonna get nothing on par to the ps4 and xbone thats for sure, that and the series not really selling that well on that platform to begin with.

Nintendo seem pleased with it to make another game though. The games are still great to play!

 

[stranno]

 

[Myths]

Save me your prostrations Platinum, I just need Babylon’s Fall!

 

[Allnamestakenlol]

Love their games from a gameplay perspective, but they're often technical messes. Here's hoping they aren't spreading themselves too thin working this many projects.

 

[iorek21]

Automata 2