Despite the unfortunate cancellation of Scalebound, PlatinumGames have been on something of a roll, from PC ports of Bayonetta and Vanquish to Nier: Automata. Co-founder Hideki Kamiya has been particularly pleased with the success of the latter, claiming that game director Yoko Taro saved the studio.
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Kamiya talked about Nier on Twitter over the weekend, showing his appreciation for Yoko Taro.
ニーアの成功はプラチナにこれまでとは違うファン層をもたらし且つスタッフの成長、成功体験、優秀な就職志望者の増加と計り知れない恩恵を与えてくれた…本来は全て俺がやらなければならない事だった…情けない話だがプラチナはヨコオさんに救われたと言っても過言ではない…感謝してもしきれません…
— 神谷英樹 Hideki Kamiya (@PG_kamiya) August 13, 2017
Here’s the translation, courtesy of NeoGAF:
“Nier’s success has to this point given Platinum a new fanbase, a growing staff, a brilliant success story, an increase in qualified job applicants, and a great benefit. Normally, I can’t help but do everything by myself… it’s a pitiful story, but to say that Yoko-san saved Platinum would not be an exaggeration. I cannot thank him enough.”
Platinum is easily one of my favourite Japanese developers, and it’s been great to see it porting games over to PC – even better that they seem to have done pretty well, particularly Nier. Here’s to this continuing!