PlatinumGames' next game is "something that has never been done before"

PlatinumGames has teased it's working on a new game that is "unlike anything done before".

Talking to VGC, PlatinumGames' Atsushi Inaba said 2019 was "an incredibly important year" for the studio, and intimated that even though the team has "a lot of different choices in the way that [it] want[s] to make games", working with shared IPs can be "a hassle".

"It's absolutely the truth that there are cases where you want to do a sequel but if you don't own the IP, you can't do it," Inaba said. "It's that simple, and quite frankly in the case of Bayonetta it took a lot of time and energy to get it to the point where sequels could be made. It wasn't as simple as picking up the phone and asking, 'hey, can we do this?' There were a lot of pieces that needed to fall into place and a lot of negotiating that had to occur.

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