In the same interview with VGC the other week, PlatinumGames co-founders Atsushi Inaba and Hideki Kamiya used the company’s next self-published title GG Project to apparently explain why it has been so quiet about certain other releases.
With these From others games – how Bayonetta 3, for example – it all comes down to the publisher’s approach. In the case of Bayonetta 3, the publisher is Nintendo. However, when it’s something like Project GG, Kamiya explains how Platinum can essentially share what it wants, whenever it wants (without getting into trouble):
“Furthermore, as we are automatically publishing [Project G.G.], there are no editors to be mad at me at this point, so I’ll be sharing stuff online, posting screenshots whenever I want … “
When it comes to other titles (again, we’re going to use Bayonetta 3), it’s simply not a decision by Platinum. In saying this, Inaba observes how the company respects any approach that other publishers want:
“We don’t have much to say about the projects we are not publishing. And we understand that different titles require different approaches, so we respect the publisher’s decisions.”
“So if there is a difference between what we want to do with Project GG and what we normally do with our other titles, it’s not really a criticism for these publishers: we respect their approaches. But especially for this title, our approach 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 would normally receive from Platinum when he was working on a game published by another company.
Could this be the reason why Platinum was so discreet about Bayonetta 3? Is that why Kamiya keeps telling fans that he is doing “very well” all the time? To be fair, in the same interview, he even said that a possible 2021 update on the game was not really “Platinum’s position to say”.
What do you think of the answers above? Do you think Nintendo told Platinum not to say anything about Bayonetta 3 and can’t even tell us that? You know, so Nintendo may eventually make some kind of surprise announcement and break the internet … Share your own ideas below.