Business legend Hideki Kamiya has introduced that he is leaving PlatinumGames, the studio he co-founded, after 15 years.
In a message on the official PlatinumGames X account, the studio pronounces Kamiya-san’s departure, which is able to come into impact on October twelfth.
Platinum thanks Kamiya-san for his “artistic concepts, management, and contribution to the expansion of PlatinumGames” from the studio’s inception to the current day.
Moreover, Platinum says it is “wanting ahead” to seeing the gaming business “develop into a greater place” on account of no matter Kamiya-san decides to do now.
Kamiya-san confirmed his departure on his own personal X account as nicely.
In line with Kamiya-san, his determination got here “after quite a lot of consideration primarily based on [his] personal beliefs” and was not a straightforward determination to return to.
Kamiya-san says that he feels his departure is “for the very best”, and that he’ll “proceed to create in [his] Hideki Kamiya method”, asking followers to maintain their eyes peeled for no matter he does subsequent.
PlatinumGames was initially based in 2007 by Kamiya-san, alongside fellow legend Shinji Mikami, present CEO Atsushi Inaba, and Resident Evil producer Tatsuya Minami.
The studio’s first title was the Wii brawler MadWorld, launched in 2009.
Bayonetta, which stays one among PlatinumGames’ best-known franchises, debuted in 2009 as nicely. It is nonetheless going sturdy right this moment, having acquired a 3rd installment simply final yr.
Kamiya-san’s different well-known directorial efforts embrace canine journey Okami and superhero motion sport The Great 101, with the latter getting a Kickstarted remaster again in 2020.
It isn’t clear what Kamiya-san intends to do subsequent after his time with PlatinumGames.
If he follows the sample set by a number of of his contemporaries, then he might discover himself becoming a member of Chinese language gaming big NetEase.
He’d be in good firm, discovering himself alongside luminaries like ex-Dragon Quest producer Ryutaro Ichimura, former Capcom producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi, and Like a Dragon (previously Yakuza) franchise creator Toshihiro Nagoshi.
After all, nothing has been introduced but, so I am simply speculating, but when Kamiya-san did be part of NetEase, it might definitely match an rising sample.
We’ll have to attend and see, however one factor’s for positive: Kamiya-san’s departure from PlatinumGames marks the tip of an period.
