Bayonetta has been in the headlines a lot recently. At the end of last year, PlatinumGames' founder Hideki Kamiya was asked when fans could expect to hear more about the next entry, Bayonetta 3. He responded by saying "development's going really well" but didn't offer any extra insight.
Now, in the latest issue of Weekly Famitsu, Kamiya has shared a little more information about the game's current development status – reassuring fans it's progressing very smoothly, even though there hasn't been any new information at all since its original reveal.
Here's the full translation from BlackKite (thanks again, Japanese Nintendo):
First of all regarding Bayonetta 3, there hasn’t been any new information at all ever since the first reveal so I feel like a lot of people are getting worried about it, but the inspection for new systems is going well, and the development is also progressing very smoothly, so please rest assured and wait for it. There are also many other interesting things I want to talk about, but it’s a super secret so I can’t say.
If you're wondering about the other "interesting things" Kamiya wants to discuss but is not allowed to right now, it might be tied to the "several big announcements" PlatinumGames intends to reveal early this year. Kamiya also notes how 2020 will "become a year of upheaval for Platinum" – which perhaps has something to do with a capital investment it recently received from Chinese tech giant Tencent.
While the above comment might not seem like much of an update to some Bayonetta fans, it's always nice to hear development is progressing well after certain other first-party Switch exclusives ended up getting delayed last year.
Are you pumped for the third entry in the Bayonetta series? Comment below.
[source japanesenintendo.com]
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Saying lots, showing nothing. Get something out there, bro...
Someone: "Sneezes"
Hideki Kamiya: "OH YES YES YES BAYONETA 3 COMING SOON SOON SOON"
Seriously the man has been saying the same exact thing for 2 years straight. For the love of god show us a screenshot, ONE SCREENSHOT of anything in Bayonetta 3 and I can wait patiently. It could literally be a picture of the ground and I would be 100% satisfied. Just show us the game actually exists. At this point, I'll have completed my hunt for Bigfoot before we even get a look at the game.
What does he mean by "the inspection for new systems"?
@ReshiramZekrom : Lost in translation?
Game was announced way to early imo.
It wouldn’t surprise me if this was suddenly shelved or announced as multi platform. I’m not convinced at all by their comments around the game but I could be wrong
@ReshiramZekrom I'm guessing he's referring to new game mechanics or something similar.
Platinum games has earned my respect countless times..... I don't care if it takes them 10 years to finish it.
Just give me that tasty Platinum quality. I'll wait.
(In-between those 10 years.... could you give me Wonderful 102 & 103 please?)
I said it before and I'll say it again:
It's almost as if games take time to develop, or something.
time to drop a cinematic teaser trailer at least?
@JR150 Its not that we want the game to be finished right here right now. We just want, at the very least, a screenshot to show the game is actually coming along.
@patbacknitro18
Bayo 3, Prime 4, and Shin Megami Tensei V are all in the same boat lol. I'm waiting on SMT V myself so I know how you feel. But as a wise man once said: a warrior's greatest weapon is patience.
@Varkster Do you have a source on that?
@ReshiramZekrom Maybe in return for Banjo in Smash, Cuphead, Ori, New Super Lucky's Tale and any future Xbox games on the Switch we see Nintendo let Bayonetta 3 come to XB1/Series X?
@JR150 Gamers really are like the kids in the back of a car. Reading sites like this that wind people up every day won’t help matters for them either. 😀
“Haven’t heard anything for 3 days. Must be cancelled/in development hell/insert overreaction here”
@Grumblevolcano ohhh no no .... if we give Bayonetta, then we should get Rare Replay
@Grumblevolcano Nope. Microsoft had their chance for new Bayonetta games, and they refused. Platinum games were in desperate need of someone to help fund Bayonetta 2, they went around asking every major developer around. Everyone turned them down, including Sony and Microsoft. And to their surprise one of their last ditch efforts, a company they honestly thought wouldn't fund the game due to its extremely mature content, Nintendo agreed to not only fund the game, but to provide resources for it wherever necessary. Nintendo single handily saved the Bayonetta series while everyone else shot it down. And that's why Bayonetta is mostly a Nintendo exclusive series now. With the exception of Bayonetta 1 being ported to other consoles.
I find the fact that he talks about other announcements in the same breath as Bayonetta 3 to be promising, in the sense that these announcements are surely Switch related as he's specifically speaking out to Nintendo fans in this instance.
Surely it means either Nier, Wonderful 101 or Astral Chain 2.
@JR150 Actually Metroid Prime 4 has a reason for it. The game completely scrapped development and restarted. So as of right now, it has only had 9 months of development since its restart. So it has an excuse of having nothing to show. Bayonetta 3 has no excuse for not being able to show 1 Flippin screenshot of the game. Especially since every time the game is mention, this guy says everything is coming along perfectly.
Kamiya is not one to beat around the bush, if he says it’s going good, then it’s going good.
@patbacknitro18 Its not Platinum’s decision. it’s Nintendo’s. Nintendo doesn’t like to show game footage too early.. usually they show footage about 6 to 9 months prior to release
@ozwally
Ahhh yes, a game that Nintendo co-finances and co-owns is definitely going multiplatform...
Bayonetta is a great game 1 and 2.it will be great and am willing to wait as long as its good👍
I still need to buy Bayo2 so don't mind at all. Bayonetta 1 is a very addictive game and hard to master and is still holding me off from 2 because of that.
Well there you have it. It's a Super Secret. So he can't tell.
So don't announce it before you have anything to show. Then people won't be worried about it.
Bayonetta 3 was announced just to sell ports of Bayonetta 2. It is coming, but they announced super early for buzz and to sell more copies of Bayonetta 2.
This is why I like Nintendo's habit of only talking about the games that you can play in the next 6 months.
Like they did with metroid 4 and pikmin.
I'm worried that it will end up getting cancelled, at least for Switch. Without so much as a screenshot, I'm beginning to wonder if this game is being developed at all. Like I said before, I don't really trust anyone anymore.
@patbacknitro18 I figure that if Microsoft was given any games in return for Xbox games on Switch and Banjo in Smash, it would be something like Bayonetta 3 given the franchise itself isn't Nintendo exclusive, just that 2 and 3 had funding from Nintendo.
Of course it could be just a one way deal where Nintendo gets Xbox games and Microsoft just gets the IP exposure (e.g. Ori 2 may do better as a result of Ori on Switch).
I’m sure we will get some news and screenshots about this game eventually. Not gonna lie, I’m dying to see how this game is though.
I’m just hoping there aren’t any cringey looking yugioh looking morons.
"It's just going to be a mobile game instead, premium priced, subscription fee required, and full of gotcha "surprise mechanics". What, y'all don't have phones and tons of money?"
Everyone starts laughing. Literally EVERYONE. And all their faces turn to you while their laughter synchronises, and gets louder as their mouths open up further than humanly possible, revealing gaping black holes with rows upon rows of teeth looking like rusty needles. You feel the life being sucked out of you, but just when it all fades to black, you hear a familiar high voice: "wake up!".
You do as instructed, and a small fairy floats right in front of you.
As the Kakariko theme starts playing, the fairy tells you to listen, and go to the Deku Tree, where, upon arrival, he informs you "Platinum Games is bringing everything to Switch.
Not sure you fully understood, being slightly sleep drunk still, you ask what he means by everything...
His remotely face resembling trunk starts trembling violently as if you said something extremely offensive, and turns into the face of an angry Gary Oldman. He starts screaming... "EVERYTHINNNNNGGGGGGG!"
You wake up, soaked in sweat. While the visions still haunt you, you somehow feel happy.
I am not worried at all. This E3 baby!
@illmatic20xx It was an early announcment, but I think that had a lot to do with the first games getting ported to Switch. It made sense to announce them simultaneously, but yeah, it does make the wait feel long.
hes been saying the same thing for the past 2 years
Really people are being worried. Oh brother, l feel like nintendo life wasted to share this news, because the guy will keep repeating the same thing.
These days I find myself much more anxious to see Monolith Soft's new fantasy IP. Hopefully development is still going well for it.
@Scottwood101
Yoko Taro sitting down with Kamiya makes me suspicious of a Nier:A port. Hopefully Wonderful 101 is one of the two rumored Wii U ports.
@Grumblevolcano That's not how that works at all. Just because Microsoft collaborates with Nintendo doesn't mean Nintendo will collab back with Microsoft
and the titles chosen to appear on Switch are actually available on other platforms already (Cuphead is also on MacOS, Linux, Windows 10 and Steam, Ori is on Windows 10 and Steam), making them safer to release on Switch
It's not like you'll see Hellblade: Inkling's Sacrifice or Halo: SR-388 anytime soon on Xbox Series X
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