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with how much they've been fucking up, it's no wonder so many veterans abandoned ship

The only major name left of the original founders is Atsushi Inaba and all the pre-Platinum games he produced were directed by either Shinji Mikami or Hideki Kamya.

Their last major game was Bayonetta 3 - which took way too long to come out, had shit marketing and a story that fans hated: it underperformed in sales and was also panned by fans, being deemed the worst of the Bayonetta games.

Their last game at all was a Bayonetta side story game that was so off of anything in the series that almost no one was really interested in playing it.

Along with having a niche audience, they also limited themselves to only one platform since 2019. and Their last multiplatform game was Nier Automata, in 2017.

That's of course not counting Babylon's Fall - a game that buried itself with its own initial public previews where placeholder armor and weapon models from Final Fantasy 14 were used in its promo materials

Now, their only chance of surviving seems to be Ninja Gaiden 4 and the new Okami game - and unless they pull off something as well animated and fun to play as Nier Automata, they probably won't be around much longer.

hell, I don't see them surviving another 5 years unless they sell themselves to Nintendo or Sony