PlatinumGames co-founder Hideki Kamiya has revealed that he’ll be parting methods with the studio subsequent month.
The information was initially introduced on the developer’s Twitter, the place a press release reads: “We remorse to announce that Hideki Kamiya will probably be leaving PlatinumGames on October 12, 2023. We’re really grateful for his inventive concepts, management, and contribution to the expansion of PlatinumGames from our start-up to this very day.”
It appears as if Kamiya is not stepping away from sport growth fully although. “We imagine that he’ll proceed to reach his future endeavours as a sport creator,” the assertion continued. “We’re trying ahead to seeing the sport trade develop into a greater place with him in it. We want him all the perfect for the longer term!”
The information was later backed up by a few tweets from Kamiya himself, who stated the choice to go away “got here after quite a lot of consideration based mostly alone beliefs, and was not at all a straightforward determination to make.” In a follow-up tweet, he stated: “Nevertheless, I really feel this consequence is for the perfect. I’ll proceed to create in my Hideki Kamiya approach. I hope you will hold your eyes peeled.”
Kamiya’s departure ends a 17-year run at PlatinumGames. Whereas there, he created the Bayonetta sequence, in addition to the criminally underrated Fantastic 101. He was additionally the director on the long-in-development however cancelled Scalebound, a sport he expressed curiosity in resurrecting sooner or later again in 2022, as reported by NME.
No less than we all know that Kamiya is not fairly executed with creating bizarre video games simply but, and I am to know what he does subsequent. If something, no less than we’ve his notorious Twitter presence and ever-growing block record to entertain us in the interim.