When will Bayonetta 2 hit a million? Weighing the risk vs the reward.

[vivster]

RolStoppable said:

vivster said:

Well the unknown component here are the console companies. No one can predict how long they will be willing to pay for low selling IPs. The chances of Platnim having steady work in the next 7 years and them getting shut down and bought up in the next 2 years is 50/50.

If they do get bought up I believe a lot of the employees will keept heir jobs and we will see a number of their franchises to be continued. So really the employees of Platinum do not have much risk. It's not them who are losing money.

The problem with your line of logic is that publishers can already dictate what Platinum Games makes. So if the point comes where no company wants to invest in them anymore, then there will also be nobody to buy them up because there's zero point in buying a studio and permanently pay its employees when you have the option to pay them only for as long as it takes them to finish one game.

So if nobody wants to fund Platinum Games titles anymore, then the studio either has to turn to mobile or shut down altogether.

I'm sure there are assets worth purchasing. And it's not like Platinum has unskilled developers either to scoop up.

Shutting down means in most cases being bought up. Look at Sony and MS. There are worse developers they picked up fulltime^^