Wasn't this how Bayonetta 2 happens pretty much?
No one else wanted to fund it at the time so Nintendo picked it up?
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RUMOR: Nintendo has plans to revive a 'Dead and Buried' game (Update: Possibly Scalebound?)
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No one else wanted to fund it at the time so Nintendo picked it up?
Emily just said "one company worse keeping an eye on in 2019 is PlatinumGames"
LeakyPandy was the only one talking about 3 games by PlatinumGames and published by Nintendo (Bayonetta 3 being one of them), Kamiya being involved in all three.
But it's LeakyPandy so it's not worse talking about it.
How often do we hear about Nintendo or other companies re-registering trademarks when they are about to use them? That doesn't mean they no longer owned the IPs.
I remember someone saying this, and while it makes sense...I want it to be Scalebound, lol.
ScaleBound is Kamiya's dream game. Its probably very important to them and they probably still want to do it.
And of course you gotta consider that Astral Chain is nearing completion and Bayonetta 3 could be pretty far along as well. But the big thing is theres no telling how far along this Nintendo revival thing is.
Platinum could very well be early in development with Scalebound Switch and it might not see the light of day until years from now.
Nowhere did I ever imply it was...?
I do work in IP for the record.
The optics on that would be terrible. Why would they invite that kind of attention?
Yeah I think Scalebound is it. I'm happy if so as we could always use more games with dragons!
No way it's scalebound.
It's gotta be Mega Man Legends bankrolled by Nintendo or something like that.
It's gotta be Mega Man Legends bankrolled by Nintendo or something like that.
I've seen Scalebound run on Xbox One, which has more juice than the Switch. You most definitely don't want it to be Scalebound.
Scalebound looked fucking terrible every time they demoed it. If it's that I hope they've completely rebooted it but with the same idea because the concept was cool as hell.
Seriously though, look at this trash it looked boring as all hell. And that's a BOSS FIGHT. Arguably the thing Platinum does best.
Seriously though, look at this trash it looked boring as all hell. And that's a BOSS FIGHT. Arguably the thing Platinum does best.
You are conflating what I said with what Leakypanda said. I said to keep an eye on Platinum in 2019. That's all I said. The number three was never mentioned by me.
The switch rumor archive thread exists so people can keep track of who said what.
What if Scalebound comes out on Switch and is actually good?
Trademark is an intellectual property right. There are different kinds of IPR, but in the case of a game's name, Trademark and Copyright are the only two that really apply. A trademark needs to be registered and renewed generally every ten years. However, when a company doesn't use it for three consecutive years (in US, the length varies depending on the country but it's generally three to five years), it's considered as abandoned, which doesn't necessarily means the original holder has no right on it but it becomes much more feasible for another company to get their hands on it.
Copyright is different as in it doesn't protect just a name like Trademark does but rather a work (like a photography) and you don't even need to register it to have copyrights rights on your work. It lasts for like 70 years but law varies a lot depending on the country.
In this case, considering PlatinumGames was the original developer in any case, I don't think Copyright would be such a big hurdle. But it depends a lot on details we simply don't have. As for Trademark, it seems to be abandoned in both USPTO and EUIPO but Microsoft can still have common law rights despite the situation.
This Nintendo Insider site doesn't seem to understand the difference between IP ownership and trademark registration:
Anyway, didn't Platinum literally just announce an action game with co-op multiplayer as a Switch exclusive? I guess it's possible that Nintendo is also paying for Scalebound, but why would they bother? My guess -- and please be clear that this is a guess; I am not confirming or denying anything -- is that Platinum re-used a lot of Scalebound's design and tech for Astral Chain, and people are just getting their wires crossed.
Anyway, didn't Platinum literally just announce an action game with co-op multiplayer as a Switch exclusive? I guess it's possible that Nintendo is also paying for Scalebound, but why would they bother? My guess -- and please be clear that this is a guess; I am not confirming or denying anything -- is that Platinum re-used a lot of Scalebound's design and tech for Astral Chain, and people are just getting their wires crossed.
It isn't like a game can be rebooted, the visual effects can be scaled down and whatnot...
I hope this is true because even though I'm expecting Scalebound what I saw of it in the videos turned me off personally. I couldn't understand the hype.
Nah, whoever follows the man knows he is joking. Also, did anybody noticed the tweet that former Platinum Creative director say about this whole scalebound thing being highly unlikely?
Kamiya's ouevre is a non-stop line up of masterpieces, while Microsoft has a history of messing up development with other studios, especially Japanese ones. Of course people are going to point to where history tells them to.
So you want the same game, but worse?
Well, I guess some are easily satisfied.
Kamiya-san himself recognizes very openly that he messes up, a lot.
I misunderstood your post as one of the ones claiming that now that the trademark was abandoned by Microsoft, Nintendo could just swoop in and use the IP.
Slightly more than 200 people big. But who knows if they also count contract-workers, how much they can outsource stuff etc pp
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