Platinum Games is one of the most important development studios in the industry, as they are considered one of the best for making action games, as we have seen with NieR Automata and Bayonetta. However, one stain on its history is scaleboundas fans had high expectations for this Xbox exclusive until it was canceled in 2017.
In an interview for IGN Japan, the CEO of Platinum Games Atsushi Inaba and his vice president Hideki Kamiya talked about their intentions to revisit scaleboundsaying that they would like to start talks with Microsoft to see the possibility of resuming the project.
Kamiya has always wanted to do Scalebound. So we would like to have a proper discussion with Microsoft.” – Atsushi Inaba.
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Hideki Kamiya is a legendary video game director who was in charge of Resident Evil 2, Viewtiful Joe, Okami, Bayonetta, and The Wonderful 101. Kamiya was also in charge of directing scalebound until the project was canceled in 2017, and since he is currently busy working on Project GG it was thought that there was no chance of them reviving the project. But nevertheless, Kideki Kamiya sent a message to Phil Spencer for me to go back to work.
We did a lot of work on it, and it doesn’t serve Microsoft to leave the game in its current form, so we’d like to do something about it. Phil, let’s do it together!” -Hideki Kamiya.
Although at the time both Xbox and Platinum Games They said that neither of the two parties would get what they wanted but there was no hard feelings between them, recently Hideki Kamiya has taken the responsibility for the cancellation of scalebound.
I have loved fantasy worlds since I was a child. I always wanted to do something around that theme. That’s how I thought of a world that revolves around a young man fighting alongside a dragon. However, it was quite a challenge for Platinum Games.
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According to Kamita, Platinum Games they were working with environments they weren’t used to, plus they were developing Scalebound and didn’t have the knowledge at the time to build a game based on online features. “The obstacles we had to overcome were very great. We weren’t experienced enough and couldn’t get past that wall, leading to what happened at the end.”.
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