PlatinumGames Teases Vanquish PC Port, Doesn't Have A Clue About Metal Gear Rising 2

Among the increasingly struggling Japanese gaming industry, a beacon of hope has been shining brightly for a few years now. That's PlatinumGames, which became popular thanks to Bayonetta and and then proceeded to go a fan favorite studio worldwide with games like Vanquish, Metallic Gear Rising: Revengeance, Bayonetta 2 and Star Fob Null. They're now working on Scalebound (a PC/Xbox One exclusive) and Nier: Automata (a PlayStation iv exclusive), both due to launch adjacent year.

Kotaku had the risk to interview PlatinumGames Co-Founder Atsushi Inaba, who offered a few interesting tidbits on the programmer's time to come later looking dorsum.

To begin with, he confirmed that the company would similar to release games on PC merely information technology'southward ultimately upward to the publisher. Moreover, he teased a potential port of Vanquish, something that gamers take been asking for.

But to be honest, nosotros're good friends with Valve and often go to their studio. We become in that location, hang out, talk about many dissimilar things, and we are very interested in Steam and would definitely like to release games on Windows. Right at present, we're at a place in which publishers ask us to brand titles. So, if the publisher doesn't want to release a PC version, and so there won't exist a PC version. It really comes down to that.

(on Vanquish) (smiling) Hrm. I wonder... If you stop recording, I can talk about that. (laughs)

The interviewer also asked almost a potential Metal Gear Rising 2, just it doesn't look similar annihilation is happening on that front.

Ascension? That'southward Konami's IP. And Kojima Productions [at Konami] no longer exists. We don't even know what will happen side by side. That's just looking at this from our signal of view.

That's hardly surprising, with Konami's situation looking hazy as always.