The timing of changing PlatinumGames’ website with Hideki Kamiya’s recent interview suggests a possible update of Bayonetta 3.
PlatinumGames has been teasing several announcements on their website since last year, four of which have already been announced. However, one of the remaining uncovered announcements has been changed to 2021. This update is in line with a recent interview with Hideki Kamiya, in which he reveals that we will hear more about the development of the game later this year. The update was given during the recent Arcade Archives streams, in which he briefly went into his current projects.
He last spoke of Bayonetta 3 in May 2020 in a full interview while reassuring fans Bayonetta 3 was not canceled. After the interviewer asked him: “Finally, Kamiya-san, you are bored being asked where to go. Bayonetta 3 is it still? Kamiya replied:
I’m on Twitter, so I see a lot of comments every day. I’m glad there’s still anticipation for the title, but one thing I want to tackle is the trend I’re seeing: people starting to ask if the game has been canceled. I want you to tackle any problems you have like this and throw them out the window immediately, because we’re still working on it and it’s not canceled at all. Please look forward to it!
In February, the Bayonetta & Vanquish 10th Birthday Bundle released for Xbox One and PS4. We checked it out and ‘besides a nice steel bookcase for the physical edition, the Bayonetta & Vanquish 10th Birthday Bundle does not have much else to offer. PlatinumGames also published an interview on their official website with the staff working on the internal engine that developed the studio, which has tentatively titled the Platinum Engine.
PlatinumGames also announced in 2020 that four major announcements, the Platinum 4, are coming, and three of them have already taken place. The Amazing 101 Remaster Scoop starter. The unveiling of Project GG, a new game directed by Hideki Kamiya and in the line of Utsiglike Joe and The Wonderful 101. And the launch of a new PlatinumGames studio in Tokyo. The fourth and final announcement has not yet been shared, but Hideki Kamiya and Atsushi Inaba of PlatinumGames teased that it will be coming soon and it will be something amazing.
In lighter news, PlatinumGames and Hideki Kamiya released their own April Fools 2020 joke on April 1 as the fourth and final Platinum 4 announcement. Through a video posted on their official Twitter account, PlatinumGames unveils its new arcade system, the Neo-Classic Arcade, and its first game, Sol Presta, apparently developed in collaboration with Hamster Corp.