PlatinumGames studio lead Atsushi Inaba is a big fan of the Switch and enjoys what it has brought for developers/fans. Inaba states that although Xbox Series X and PS5 will be great in the next generation, they don’t have the “surprise or unexpected quality” of the Switch. Here’s an official excerpt from the VGC interview with Inaba:
“… the Nintendo Switch was very ground-breaking in how it was able to just to take a home console and make it portable. It’s something that you hadn’t seen a lot of people doing before: it took this wall, that perhaps a lot of people didn’t know even existed, and broke it down.
Switch opened up all these new possibilities. I think the Game Boy and the DS also did that: there were so many surprises in those. If you compare that to when you’re simply seeing graphical improvements or just ‘faster, bigger’… obviously it’s nice, but it doesn’t have that same inventive quality that really surprised me with past consoles.”
Currently, PlatinumGames is working on Project G.G and Bayonetta 3 for Switch. Stay tuned at Final Weapon for the latest Japanese gaming news!
