In a rare moment of candidness, Platinum Games, makers of hit witch shooter Bayonetta, have laid into Sega for ruining the title in their notoriously bad PS3 port of same, with Platinum lamenting the decision to let them near it as “our biggest failure.”
The comments come by way of a recent interview with Platinum Games director Atsushi Inaba:
The biggest failure for Platinum so far, the one that really sticks in my mind, is that port.
At the time we didn’t really know how to develop on PS3 all that well, and whether we could have done it… is irrelevant: we made the decision that we couldn’t.
But looking back on the result, and especially what ended up being released to users, I regard that as our biggest failure.
One thing I will say is that it wasn’t a failure for nothing. We learned that we needed to take responsibility for everything. So on Vanquish we developed both versions in-house.
We learned, so it wasn’t a pointless failure, but it was a failure nonetheless.
He is apparently silent as to just how Sega managed to make such a mess of things and why Platinum stood by as they did.
However, whilst agreeably honest about the affair, Platinum is unlikely to be winning over jilted fans of the series any time soon – Bayonetta 2 is a WiiU exclusive, which Platinum blames on publisher issues, something not necessarily likely to win over fans with no need of the WiiU and its superior graphical capabilities.
il wait for the inevitable 360 and ps3 port, or likewise just buy a used WiiU at gamestop a year or 2 down the road for $150~ and bayonetta 2 for $10-15.
your move platinum.
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God when will you fucking retards start reading? Nintendo is publishing, paying for, and CO-DEVELOPING Bayonetta 2. It’s not coming to your favorite console, ever, you sony/ms buttslave.
yup, log me out sancom thanks ;_;
“Exclusive”
We’ve seen it before;
Bayonetta 2 is an Exclusive for the WiiU, then a graphically improved, with more content version goes out (Bayonetta 2-Witch’s Desires)(example), and there, Ps3 and 360 have a better version of it.
Even so, the bayonetta’s 360 “numbers” are lame, so i think it’ll be “The improved Bayonetta 2a Ps3 “Exclusive””
Like always.
BUTT HOOOOOW?
C’mon guys.
Resident Evil 4 was supposed to be a GameCube exclusive… A year later it was on PS2 and PC. And now is on PS3 and Xbox360 with HD upscale.
Sony got in the way, and talked with CRAPCOM at that time so they could get their RE4 for PS2.
Just wait a few months. Bayonetta 2 exclusivity is just losing money. BUT as temporary exclusivity, just increases its value, since the “ports” for PS3 and/or Xbox360 will be superior to the WiiU version.
Just wait. Platinum Games is not stupid enough to lose that many fans and their money.
DAT ASS has literally a lot to do with the late butthurt trolls.