Ryuu96 said: In fairness to Platinum, they don't blame Xbox either, they've gone on record saying they feel bad about Xbox only receiving the blame and that they share the blame, shit happens, I think a combination of Xbox's lack of budget at the time + It being Platinum's largest game ever, they bit off more than they could chew and it was just too much for them too soon. |
On one of the recent Xbox Two podcasts Jez Corden literally said that Scalebound fiasco is on Microsoft for the most part. He didn’t want to go into the details (probably because this stuff is under NDA), but he said that the people responsible for that doesn’t work at Xbox anymore (thankfully). But still, it’s a fact. Of course Platinum are not clear either, but definitely not a 50/50 situation. They don’t publicly blame Microsoft simply because it’s Japanese culture and mentality - they don’t like to criticize someone publicly. I would still say that they are holding a grudge against Xbox though. It is evident simply by looking at how they refuse to put their games on the platform.
Ryuu96 said: I'm going to say what folk might not want to hear but I think the best thing for Platinum would be for them to sell to someone, like Nintendo. I think their issue is that they're spreading themselves too thin because they always need the next piece of work to keep them afloat when it would be better for them to focus on 1-2 projects or significantly expand which they likely can't do without big funding. |
I have to agree here. Unfortunately after Scalebound they’ve been on a downhill as a studio. Babylon’s Fall is some shitty GaaS thing and shaping up to be an awful game. Wonderful 101 remaster was very lazy port with technical issues. Bayonetta 3 might be in development hell. Was announced back in 2017 I think and still nothing except logo. They have also upcoming Sol Cresta game which looks good but it’s more like a smaller title - a sequel or spiritual successor to one old 80s arcade shmup game - obviously way smaller than anything Platinum has worked on before. The only good thing to happen with Platinum in post-Scalebound era was Astral Chain. I would even go as far as to say that it is a second-best Platinum game ever. Which shows that Platinum can deliver high quality games under Nintendo’s supervision. So, I really see only two scenarios from now on - they either sell to Tencent - which is bad, because we already see Tencent’s effect on them - focus on smaller games and GaaS, or to sell to Nintendo and make good games. Nintendo sadly doesn’t have that much money to compete in big acquisitions game so this scenario is quite unlikely.