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Goatseye on 28 September 2015

PlatinumGames’ Scalebound is definitely one of the most intresting, if not the most intriguing game in the upcoming Xbox One line-up, but how did the partnership between the developer from Osaka and Microsoft come to be?

Creative Producer Jean Pierre Kellams told us the story at the Xbox One fanfest in Tokyo, explaining that the studio always had a lot of love for Microsoft’s consoles, and that they have been in talks with the house of Xbox for quite a while in order to find a project that they could do together.

“Microsoft, actually for quite a few years, has always been talking with us about projects that we could possibly do together, we’ve always been kind of looking for a way to work together. We’ve had a lot of love for Xbox. You know, Bayonetta for us was an Xbox 360 game.”

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“We’ve always really loved the Xbox as a platform, and we’ve always really wanted to work with Microsoft, and when we’re finishing up Wonderful 101, we went back… We’ve been trying to make the ideas behind Scalebound for a long time, since before we even made Bayonetta. So they came to us once again, they were like “Ok, you know, we’re thinking about this new hardware platform, and we’d love to work together, do you guys have something that might be something like really challenging and big that we can work together on” and we were like “we have just the idea.”

“So we showed them Scalebound, and it was a really interesting pitch process, it took a long time. There was actually a big steel book that has the original design on it, that we showed, we kind of “Boom, this the scale of our game.” And they really believed in the project and we started working together a couple of years ago. Ever since we’ve been working towards bringing Scalebound to the Xbox One.”

I have to say that I’m definitely eager to try this game with my own greedy hands. Ever since I saw the demo played at Gamescom, I can’t wait to finally control Drew and fight side by side with Thuban.

I have high expectations for this game. After these kind words of JP Kellams, I'm so humbled.



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Dravenet7 on 28 September 2015

hmm, this sorta smells like PR, but it's definitely not untrue.



Protendo on 28 September 2015

I only see to options on why this PR dribble is so extreme:

1.) Platinum has bad blood with Nintendo and Sony, so buttering up Microsoft is their only option
2.) Platinum's next game has already been funded by Microsoft.

One is a big possibility, but if two Microsoft made a good move.

Let's see what happened to Nintendo:
Platinum told Smash Bros Fans to F*** off.
Platinum announced in 2014 that they wanted to make Bayotte 3 with Nintendo, but not a word since.
Starfox is delayed and has lots of criticism.
Wonder 101 flopped.
Bayonetta 2 sales weren't exactly impressive.




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vivster on 28 September 2015

...Ever since they gave us that big brown bag with the dollar sign on it!



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Spade on 28 September 2015

Wonder what the reaction to this thread would be if it was "We always really loved the playstation..."



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Protendo on 28 September 2015
Slade6alpha said:
Wonder what the reaction to this thread would be if it was "We always really loved the playstation..."


Incoming Playstation exclusive and money hat.  That would also counter the rumors that their is bad blood between Platinum and Sony that started when Vanquish flopped.



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gooch_destroyer on 28 September 2015
Protendo said:
Slade6alpha said:
Wonder what the reaction to this thread would be if it was "We always really loved the playstation..."


Incoming Playstation exclusive and money hat.  That would also counter the rumors that their is bad blood between Platinum and Sony that all started when Vanquish flopped.


I know right?

 

I wonder what that was...



vivster on 28 September 2015
Slade6alpha said:
Wonder what the reaction to this thread would be if it was "We always really loved the playstation..."

That would be a really weird statement but would at least feel genuine since they're not currently on Sony's payroll.



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Dravenet7 on 28 September 2015
Protendo said:

I only see to options on why this PR dribble is so extreme:

1.) Platinum has bad blood with Nintendo and Sony, so buttering up Microsoft is their only option
2.) Platinum's next game has already been funded by Microsoft.

One is a big possibility, but if two Microsoft made a good move.

Let's see what happened to Nintendo:
Kamiya told Smash Bros Fans to F*** off.
Platinum announced in 2014 that they wanted to make Bayotte 3 with Nintendo, but not a word since.
Starfox is delayed and has lots of criticism.
Wonder 101 flopped.
Bayonetta 2 sales weren't exactly impressive.

There's a big difference between Platinum the develpment group, and Kamiya the development head.

Kamiya tells everyone to to F*** off to just about everything. He once said screw Microsoft right before Gamescom and called the Scalebound cover art generic garbage. His insults in particular shouldn't be taken seriously

Platinum already started on multiple projects prior to Bayo 2 and after. This includes Star Fox. In fact, they are making Star Fox in part because of the special stage in Bayo 2. Besides not every game announces a sequel within a year after the previous title.



EspadaGrim on 28 September 2015

Hopefully MS can keep them as a 2nd Party for this gen it shouldn't be to hard.