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Viper1 on 25 September 2012
Metrium said:
Roma said:
NoirSon said:


Viewtiful Joe and Okami are owned by Capcom because Platinum Games never actually developed them. Those were made by a Capcom development team called Clover who later went on to make Platinum Studios when Capcom start reorganizing itself and got restrictive.

If Nintendo bought the company I suspect most of their top heads would leave the company because while they like to make games, they seem to relish in freedom and I doubt Nintendo ownership would grant them a lot of that. I could see a close partnership if Bayonetta and Wonderful 101 do well that one day may result in 2nd party status similar to Retro and Monolith Soft but for now, they are mercenaries.

I hope they do a 3DS game however, they are talented band based off their previous works.

 

Retro is fully owned by Nintendo so they are first party as for monolith soft i recently read Nintendo bought them completely now so first patry there as well

ah didn't know that about Okami and Joe

if they bought PG the staff (owners) would probably only accept to be bought on specific terms and if Nintendo agrees then they will let themselves be bought

I think Monolith is 81% owned by Nintendo and 19% by Namco-Bandai.

Namco sold their 16% share to Nintendo later that year.   They now own 94% of the company.



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Soundwave on 25 September 2012

I like the 3DS and all, but honestly I'd rather just see them work on the Wii U. Star Fox U, Vanquish 2, new IP, whatever.



Chandler on 25 September 2012

Bayonetta 3......D. Dat shitstorm.



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Kenology on 25 September 2012
Metrium said:
I'd love to see PG becoming a 2nd or 1st party studio! This could strengthen PG's IPs by becoming Nintendo proprietary and I would love seeing PG work on Nintendo franchises like star fox or F-zero.

If they are for sale and I was Nintendo, I would buy them and then give them significant autonomy.  Just let Kamiya and the crew make whatever games they want - anything they come up with would fill a niche that Nintendo doesn't cover. 

This would be too good to be true though.  :(



Kenology on 25 September 2012
Viper1 said:
Metrium said:

I think Monolith is 81% owned by Nintendo and 19% by Namco-Bandai.

Namco sold their 16% share to Nintendo later that year.   They now own 94% of the company.

Who owns that remaining 6%?



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F0X on 25 September 2012
spurgeonryan said:
What else has this company made?

Vanquish, MadWorld, and Infinite Space.

Though if PG makes a 3DS game, I think it would be a new IP.



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JEMC on 25 September 2012
JWeinCom said:

No.  It's really not their style of game.  Atlthough if they wanted to make a Metroid more along the lines of Other M without the poor design choices, it could be a pretty cool game.

@Roma- Sadly, Platinum games owns very few of their IPs.  Capcom still owns the rights to Okami and Viewtiful Joe, and Sega still owns the rights to Bayonetta.

If Sega owns Bayonetta, why did Platinum had to look for a publisher for the game, finding it on Nintendo?

That makes me think that Bayonetta is owned by Platinum Games.

 

OT. Platinum is a very talented dev team and Nintendo would be wise to have them by their side, but that doesn't mean that they have to buy them. Having a good relationship and working together to get the best for both should be enough.



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Viper1 on 25 September 2012
Kenology said:
Viper1 said:
Metrium said:

I think Monolith is 81% owned by Nintendo and 19% by Namco-Bandai.

Namco sold their 16% share to Nintendo later that year.   They now own 94% of the company.

Who owns that remaining 6%?

I'm actually not sure on that but I believe that's all private investment rathe than owned by another company.

spurgeonryan said:
What else has this company made?

They were largely Clover Studio back when it was part of Capcom.  They made Viewtiful Joe, Okami and God Hand.

When they became Platinum Games, they started with Mad World.  They also made Infinite Space on the DS, Bayonetta, Vanquish and Anarchy REigns on the PS3/X360.  They are workign on Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance on the PS3/X360 as well as Bayonetta 2 and The Wonderful 101 on Wii U.



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MegaDrive08 on 25 September 2012

Madworld on 3ds ;)



 

ECM on 25 September 2012

The remaining shares of Monolithsoft are owned by the directors of the company.



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