Have they though? Wonderful 101 seemed to bomb. Bayonetta 2 was well received, but I don't think it set the world on fire. Star Fox was outright bad. Astral Chain seems to be the first solid hit for them with Nintendo.
Sounds like Inaba thinks they're both to blame, but clearly Kamiya was pissed at how Microsoft handled things.
Scalebound Director Pissed at "Shits at Microsoft," That Are Messing with him
Translates to:
"those shits at MS… are they fucking with me…?"
Scalebound Developer Laments Microsoft Taking 'Brunt' of Blame for Cancellation
I didn't realize this was the first grade lol.
Never experienced the first Okami, but I'd love to see Viewtiful Joe and would try an Okami 2.
And I'm saying you shouldn't take PR statements like that at face value lol.
You shouldn't outright dismiss them either if they don't fit your narrative.
This isn't a conspiracy. Microsoft notably fucked up a lot during early Xbox One, including Scalebound and somehow they're mostly blameless?
No need to strawman. I never said it was a conspiracy. I agree to an extent that a PR statement doesn't necessarily tell the full picture. At the same time, you can't automatically disregard it either because it doesn't fit your narrative. If it was a regular Platinum sized game, then it was far likely MS's fault. However this game was by far Platinum's biggest and most ambitious game they ever worked on and agreed to things that MS was pressing for that made it even bigger and added more work load, which is probably the reason the game ultimately was in a poor state and canceled. It is likely it was both parties fault. Now who shares more of the blame will probably remain unknown. However it is noteworthy that MS has since drastically changed the way they manage studios and let studios have full creative control and make what they want to make.
I doubt it. Sony was always looking to buy Insomniac but they were never interested on being bought. That eventually changed. Probably went to Sony when that happened.
The massive success of Spider-Man probably played a lot into it.
Probably not. Insomniac was very volcal about how they enjoyed their independence from being owned by a publisher. With spiderman being their most selling and successful title of all time, they were certainly not in a dire need to keep the lights on. Sony most likely opened up that check book to a very big offer. Most likely a response to the aqusition spree Microsoft has been on. Sony recently went on record of potentially buying more studios.
Unless a publisher backs them for a big multiplatform release, their releases will always be scattered across different platforms, which is still preferable to them being bought out by any of the Big 3
I like Kamiya's games but him calling out MS and Nintendo about their marketing is kinda cringe. Yes, both of these companies have had and still do have issues with their marketing, but you make niche games bruh and aren't in a position to publish your own software. Stop the whining.
Console warriors dont care about developers unless they're supporting their platform of choice.
Nintendo fans like having Platinum games on their console
That could've still happened. It would've been worse for Sony fans.
Triggered.
