PlatinumGames Wants to Return to Bayonetta
Atsushi Inaba said PlatinumGames wants to further develop Bayonetta and expand her world, but he would not confirm a new entry.
- PlatinumGames CEO Atsushi Inaba confirmed during a Tokyo Game Show interview that the studio remains committed to expanding the Bayonetta franchise, though he declined to provide specifics, telling fans to "wait and see."
- Series creator Hideki Kamiya left Platinum in October 2023, envisioning Bayonetta as a nine-part saga he may now take "to the grave," while Bayonetta 3 director Yusuke Miyata has also since departed the Osaka-based studio.
- Shift-Up CEO Kim Hyung-tae called the series "an indispensable work in my life" while designing Bayonetta-themed costumes for a crossover arriving on Nintendo Switch this November, co-owned by Sega and Nintendo.
- Any potential Bayonetta return faces production hurdles, including the 2024 death of Japanese voice actress Atsuko Tanaka, and Platinum leadership acknowledged that simply creating another game is no longer straightforward.
- Platinum remains focused on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin with Paramount, though the $110 billion merger forming Skydance between Warner Bros and Paramount may impact future titles.
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New Bayonetta Games Teased by Franchise Developer
PlatinumGames has teased that it’s working on new games in the Bayonetta series. Since hitting the scene back in 2009, Bayonetta has gone on to receive two sequels that arrived in 2014 and 2022. Outside of these mainline entries, Platinum went on to expand the IP further with a new spin-off in 2023 called Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon. And while nothing new has happened with the Bayonetta franchise since the launch of Origins, it …
'We Have a Strong Desire to Further Develop the Character of Bayonetta' — PlatinumGames Isn't Done With the Gun Witch
PlatinumGames CEO Atsushi Inaba said he isn’t done with Bayonetta, the studio’s character action series featuring a witch equipped with gun shoes and weaponized hair.
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