Platinum Games has been cozying up to big-name publishers like Nintendo, Activision, and Square Enix in recent years. These partnerships have produced an interesting (and critically-acclaimed) slate of games, including Bayonetta 2, Transformers: Devastation, and Nier: Automata.
The developer will continue working with Nintendo in 2018, and they recently confirmed that Bayonetta 3 is coming to the Nintendo Switch. But Platinum is also independently working on several other projects, and they have plans to self-publish a pair of original titles in the near future.
Atsushi Inaba, Platinum’s Head of Development, recently sat down with Game Informer, and described the company’s process for creating these original titles alongside their more high-profile work:
Over the last year we’ve pretty much opened the company up to “Anybody can pitch a game,” and so over the last year we’ve gotten about 70 design documents from different people. And if you’re going list out the other random ideas, the scratched stuff on paper, that’s a hell of a lot more. So this year has been about us basically diluting which stuff we wanted to focus on and not focus on, and drilling down to the point where we now have two designs that we’re genuinely focused on.
According to Inaba, fans can expect an experience that’s positioned somewhere between a smaller indie game and a larger AAA project like Bayonetta:
We can’t put together a AAA, $10 million-plus game, because we just don’t have that sort of cash as an independent developer. However, we don’t plan to go the indies route with just a few people on a team making a game, so it’ll be somewhere in the middle, looking at probably about 20 people on the staff making the game, so that’ll still be a healthy [size].
Neither game currently has a release date, but Platinum is known for working fast, and (at the very least) we’ll probably learn more about both games this year.
