Hideki Kamiya Shows Off Potential PlatinumGames Merchandise, Asks Fans To Share If Interested

Figures would be best

2B blow up doll? Plush toy! I mean plush toy!

Surely Kamiya realises that bland merch with the companies logo on it isn't what fans want. It's merch based on their games and their characters that fans are after.

Needs more Bayonetta, W101, Vanquish and Neir paraphernalia. Otherwise, that’s a boring merchandise ensemble they got there

If they really wanna sell, it needs to be based on their own games. I don't think fans will be too excited about "P-shirts".

I'd love a Bayonetta shirt. (Or Okami, but that probably wont happen.)

@Bobb yeah, I once messaged him and said thanks for the awesome sequel and I was told "blocked" straight away. He's such a pretentious bell-end.

Boring, generic merch with the Company branding should be freebies given away at events.

@nate83km Really??!! Is he actually like that?

@Judgedean Can confirm, I didn't know any better and sent a happy message about how great Bayonetta 2 was in response to one of his posts and was instabanned.

Bayonetta Smash amiibo would be great, thanks!

Ok, and now how about more news on

Babylon's fall
Bayo3
GranBlue Fantasy

in any order is ok 🙄

@Judgedean @nate83km Have you opened his Twitter? It very rudely SCREAMS everywhere that he'll block any comments in foreign languages, English included - even though he often tweets in English! Bit of an a** if you ask me...

Can anyone tell me what this guys problem with anyone that doesn't speak or write Japanese? Tweet him anything in another language than Japan and you'll get blocked instantly. I don't know how his co-workers stand him.

@JohnnyC https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nintendo-2005266-Bayonetta-No-61-amiibo/dp/B0727XGL4F/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1548262440&sr=8-1&keywords=bayonetta%2Bamiibo&th=1

@RickD And to add to that, make one that has substance too instead of style-only.

@dequesi Crazy! I would be glad of any messages of thanks in any language. That sucks - I love his games but that puts a negative point against them. Definitely wouldn't buy any merchandise from him then.

Basically those Pokemon shirts from a few days ago makes every other games merchandise in existence look like dull as stagnant dishwater.

Wow. His pr people need to get him off Twitter. I love platinum games but that tweet has put me right off.

OMG just checked his twitter page. His home page banner (or whatever you call it) is calling people that don't post in Japanese as insects. I have the highest respect for the Japanese but this guy is a .,,.,m,.,m,.,!

Why are folks mad that he wants to read messages in his native language? Just because someone has international fans doesn't mean that he wants his personal twitter feed clogged up with stuff he either has to translate or is not the demographic he is speaking to. If one wants to speak to him why not just post in Japanese? If you can't why would you post to him anyway? Fans are odd ducks.

Disclaimer: I don't read/use social media beyond what clips get posted in articles but even still I don't see the reason to be offended if he banned you for that.

He is probably irritated that people keep posting comments in languages he does not understand. I know I wouldn't want my feed to be bombarded with messages I have to translate using Google's terrible service.

@Ryu_Niiyama Well he does post in English as well as Japanese. People are annoyed cause he calls English speakers incests. Hell someone gave him praise for the RE2 remake. All he said is "Thanx blocked", he goes out of his way to let you know to piss off.

Edit: Also it's not people post in English it's he is saying English people keep asking stupid stuff. So he blanketly says English speakers are insects. For context since you don't follow him.

wow a racist japanese guy would've thunk?

@Bunkerneath Thanks mate. Was hoping to find them at around rrp though. Not desperate enough to pay double or more what they're worth. Hopefully they'll get re-stocked one day!

Lol Kamiya's hilarious. Imagine if EVERY day, all throughout the day, you were bombarded with idiotic questions - in a FOREIGN LANGUAGE no less - about things you're neither not allowed to discuss nor can you comment on since you have no say. You'd go ban crazy too, admit it. Respect the guy's wishes, or get blocked. You wouldn't get banned if you read his bio and respect his personal rules. I've tweeted him before, praising him for Okami. I never checked to see if I was banned, and I don't particularly care. I know he reads his tweets, so he received my message. That should be enough as a fan.

Nah, this is some hideously boring merch. And I only retweet things in English 👹

(Honestly, I don't retweet anything, ever, because I don't even have a Twitter account. But if I did, I would certainly not retweet anything from a guy who refers to his English-speaking fans as "brainless insects".)

I follow PlatinumGames on Twitter but not him.
That tweet about the “insects” wasn’t a good one. I guess he might be an idiot or maybe he just was pissed off and posted something he shouldn’t have (I’m sure we all have done something similar in a bad moment). Anyway I won’t judge because of one unfortunate tweet.

And now, back to the subject of the article.
That kind of merchandise is the kind of stuff you give for free in conventions and the like not something you sell.

He’d better be off giving some information about the games they’re developing right now.

@maruse It isn't just one unfortunate tweet, he calls people "insects", in multiple ones.

@Ryu_Niiyama No one should put in the effort of making a tweet in a language he understands, especially if he's going to call you a "brainless insect" afterwards.

@MsJubilee Whatever, like I said he might be an idiot (or not).
In the end I don’t care. I’m not one of those who get offended by anything and everything on the Internet.
Nowadays people seem to enjoy taking issue by every little thing.
That Kamiya guy is just that, a single guy. What he says in a tweet doesn’t affect me. Or more precisely: I won’t let it affect me.

The reason why they don't have any merch of their games is probably that they don't own the rights to any of them.

Bayonetta and Vanquish are owned by Sega
Nier is Square Enix
Okami is Capcom

Maybe they own the rights to Wonderful 101, but it looks like Nintendo was involved from the beginning of development, so it is probably their property.

@MsJubilee which from what I am hearing he wouldn’t do if someone spoke to him in Japanese. Either way he got the intended result. Non Japanese speakers leave him alone because they are up in arms about Kamiya being Kamiya. Not saying it’s right or wrong but it’s in line with his personality. Otherwise people tow the line and use Japanese.

It’s his personal account; who wants that clogged with random responses from people that you don’t understand and who don’t have the common courtesy to match the language he is using? The internet makes it easier to connect to others sure, but that access doesn’t guarantee acknowledgement or accommodation on behalf of the person being inconvenienced (in this case Kamiya trying to tweet in Japanese).

Shrugs. Sounds like a non issue to me.

Forget the merchandise, just bring Nier Complete addition to switch instead.

@link3710 that makes sense as he explained on twitter, that he wasn't in charge of Bayonetta 2 and but was for the original Bayonetta. It all makes sense as to why he'd be annoyed over thank you's for a game that wasn't his work.

@Lthoise Except A: I literally got banned in under a minute, so I doubt he read it. B: it was in response to a post about Bayonetta 1+2, C: My post was about both games.

All Japanese businesses seem to have merchandise gift shops with in them.

so This is why Bayonetta 3 doesn’t have a release date. They’re too focused on merchandise sigh