If they make another MGR game, they better make it longer tahn 5 hours, as I was disappointed for paying $70 for a 5 hour game.

I think God Of War fits them well, though they would mess up the story.

Because they are very niche. The same way why (I assume) SO didn't sell a ton. Unless you a Mario, DK, etc popular IP you aren't gonna sell well for quirky games as these.

You can add "making games exclusive to one platform" as their newest tactic of not becoming more popular.

The problem is complex, but it basically boils down to Kamiya insulting all of their potential customers on Twitter and idiot game reviewers giving The Legend of Korra a 4/10.

Honestly it's like they make all the wrong decisions on purpose.

Why was a game like Madworld exclusive to the Wii? It was the wrong kind of game for the platform and the wrong platform for that kind of game.

Why would they develop Bayonetta exclusively for the 360? At that point it was pretty clear they were puposely avoiding developing for the PS3 where the audience for a game like Bayonetta was more important.

Vanquish was a nice attempt at catering to a western crowd but it was doomed with a publisher like Sega.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance was a great opportunity to show what they were made of but it fell short of expectations.

And obviously they got screwed when the Wii U wasn't as popular as expected.

And Scalebound being published by Microsoft is again a weird decision, especially when they seem to be making the game for Japan where the XBO is pretty much doomed.

Their games are short? Have you seen what passes for a "campaign" nowadays?

I'm not talking about a game's length as being its campaign's length, but its value as a whole. Games with short campaigns usually have very popular multiplayer modes, which Platinum's games don't offer.

Anyone suggesting that the problem with Bayonetta is that the game-play is too 'hardcore' might want to look at the success of the Souls games and the almost certain success of Bloodborne.  The game-play has never been the problem.  Where Bayonetta fails, in relation to those titles, is that it appears to draw its creative inspiration from The Witches of Breastwick.  As I said before, it goes out of its way to make itself niche.

All points are valid.

But this covers most of it imo.

Even fans of the genres said the games are too short. When other people told them that's one of the great things because it's about high scores, getting better and better, finding different routes and therefore the opposite of hours of an entertaining world with less action and long ways to go, they understood and slowly became score hunters themselves.

Platinum's games are games. Pick them up for a short period, rack up a nice score, build some ideas and skills for your next run. While The Walking Dead is on the one extreme side of video games where it's all about story and almost only about choices, Platinum is on the other extreme side where it's about fast paced action and although they have pretty good stories, they are quite quirky and nothing you'd believe in or get sucked into the game's world by.