Founded on the still-smoking ashes of the brilliant Clover studio, PlatinumGames celebrates its fifteenth anniversary this year. And to start the year well, Atsushi Inaba is offered a new place of choice.
Atsushi Inaba is now the new President and CEO of Platinum Games. After more than five years in this position, Kenichi Sato has announced that he will step down in December 2021 to make way for the flagship producer. For his already effective departure, Sato therefore wanted to quickly take stock of his presidency:
Since taking office in April 2016, my focus has been on growing our business to bring smiles to the entire planet. I also participated in Tencent’s investment in December 2019. We also created the PlatinumGames Tokyo studio to strengthen our development capabilities and started developing a new license that we hold dear.
We now need to accelerate and offer new ways of just playing PlatinumGames without doing it. That’s why Atsushi Inaba will lead the studio: I thought he would be the most suitable, which is proven by his many years of experience.
The platinum medal
It’s an understatement to say that Inaba’s prestigious career speaks for itself, as whoever started his career as a programmer on the mythical Samurai Showdown produced some of Capcom’s most outstanding games in the 2000s, from Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney to Ōkami onwards Viewtiful Joe , the list is long and incomplete.
And there’s no shortage of locations since the structure of Osaka, since Bayonetta 3, Sol Cresta and the enigmatic Project GG are officially in development.
Dear guests,
The new President and CEO obviously jumped at the opportunity to speak, and talk about his philosophy :
Create innovative forms of play.
PlatinumGames was founded on this belief.
That will never change.By their very nature, video games are a true expression of freedom: minds come together freely to create an idea, develop it, and then make it playable. The real fun of games comes from the freedom given to both their creator and their users – which is why I think they’re an amazing form of entertainment.
Our overarching goal for approaching self-publishing remains the same: to invent something innovative and share it with the rest of the world.
As I move forward with the new challenges, I hope to be able to offer more and more new experiences for the enjoyment of all our users.
Will this new cap make the Inaba guy change his mind about the new generation that only recently tired him? Tell us in the comments below!
