Bayonetta maker PlatinumGames has lost every one of its top directors A worrying amount of game directors, including the ones for Bayonetta 3 and Astral Chain, have ditched PlatinumGames, but it’s not known if they’re joining Hideki Kamiya’s new studio or not.
All that’s left are the Bayonetta games, NieR: Automata, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Astral Chain, Vanquish (whose own director, Shinji Mikami, left in 2010), The Wonderful 101, and the newly announced Ninja Gaiden 4.
superhero game giant with glowing eyes shrouded in fog] A year later, though, and around 25 of his colleagues have also jumped ship to join him at his new studio, Clovers, to work on the upcoming Ōkami sequel for Capcom.
In a segment of his newest YouTube video, Kamiya shared footage of what he describes as a ‘former PlatinumGames directors’ drinking party,’ insinuating everyone in attendance is no longer employed at the studio.
Regardless, it’s a far worse situation than we initially expected, since this means PlatinumGames has lost key people behind all of its most prominent games.
