Bayonetta dev doing another SEGA game

By Wesley Yin-Poole Published 14 December, 2010

Is it Bayonetta 2?

SEGA will publish another Platinum Games developed title, the Japanese company has confirmed.

SEGA has published each of the four Platinum Games' titles: MadWorld, Infinite Space, Bayonetta and Vanquish.

In October 2010, executive director and producer Atsushi Inaba said Platinum was in talks to potentially extend its partnership with SEGA.

It appears those talks were successful.

"We have a further title to announce from Platinum Games as well," SEGA West's executive vice president of sales and marketing Alan Pritchard told US mag Game Informer (reported by SEGAbits).

Speculation will undoubtedly point toward a sequel to Bayonetta.

In October, ahead of the release of Vanquish, Inaba told Eurogamer in an interview the Japanese developer "would love" to make Bayonetta 2 and will do so "when the time is right".

Speculation was first sparked by a tweet from fellow Platinum Games co-founder Hideki Kamiya. "Will there be a Bayonetta 2?" a fan asked the Bayonetta and Devil May Cry director on Twitter. "I believe so," he replied.

"She'll be back if you believe so," he said to another follower.

"There is no concrete plan or schedule that we can talk about," Inaba told Eurogamer. "It's not like Kamiya said, 'Okay, we're going to make this.

"But Bayonetta is definitely a special IP for us. We loved creating that game. We think it was a really good game. We would love to make a sequel to it when the time is right. That's all we can say."

Bayonetta met a warm reception from hardcore gamers and critics, and respectable sales, when it was released late last year in Japan and early this year in the West. SEGA has also indicated it may be up for a sequel.

Simon Parkin awarded a 9/10 in Eurogamer's Bayonetta review.

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  • devil_badger #1 1 year ago

    Please let it be. Bayonetta is probably my favourite game of this console generation. It was everything that DMC4 should have been

  • mingster #2 1 year ago

    OoO hope so .. Bayonetta has the best game ending ever.

  • rivuzu #3 1 year ago

    There is a god.

  • SteveHolt #4 1 year ago

    I hope it's not a sequel, because Platinum has been great at creating exciting new IPs in 2010. And TBH, Bayonetta is a great game, there's not much room for improvement here.

  • reelbigkris #5 1 year ago

    I'm actually more interested in them developing a new IP. Bayonetta and vanquish are both great and would not want the company to be known as "those guys that made Bayonetta".

    Give it a few more years before we get a bayonetta sequel, carry on exploring with new story's and gameplay mechanics :)

  • miiiguel #6 1 year ago

    My favourite game this generation as well, and probably the previous one, and the one before. It's magic when one starts doing those crazy, sexy combos naturally. It's much better than Vanquish, which is still an amazing game.

  • regmund #7 1 year ago

    picked Bayonetta (ps3) up cheaply in tesco the other weekend and its been good fun so far.
    i agree that a sequel much later would be of interest to me, let us see what other great ideas Platinum have in store...

  • telboy007 #8 1 year ago

    Just started playing Vanquish and was most amused when I stumbled across the russian robots dancing like Bayonetta in the big ship / robot tank / laser thing.

  • GamesConnoisseur #9 1 year ago

    Wouldnt be suprised if Bayonetta 2 will leads on PS3 after the disaster of porting an markedly inferior version over the X360 version.

    I dont think that is a bad idea anyway, as Vanquish which was platform led on the PS3 did comes out very close to being equal good on X360 with minor differences, and the PS3 is much more important and numerous in Japan over the X360 anyway.

  • EmiliasHorse #10 1 year ago

    Bayonetta 2 would be sweet. First one is my vote for most stylish game ever, pure class.

  • Evolution #11 1 year ago

    Agree with GamesConnoisseur, PS3 port was a disaster compared to the 360. Still a fantastic game though.

  • sonicyoda #12 1 year ago

    Shenmue 3! Haha, only joking.

    ...

    That would actually be bloody mental if Platinum did it.

  • menschenfracht #13 1 year ago

    @reelbigkris
    'Bayonetta and vanquish are both great and would not want the company to be known as "those guys that made Bayonetta". '

    of course they won't be known as "those guys that made Bayonetta"!
    If anything, they will be known as "those guys that made Ookami"!

  • menage #14 1 year ago

    Bayonetta 2?

    YES PLEASE!!!!

  • rivuzu #15 1 year ago

    @sonicyoda

    I lol'd at that. Then I stopped. Then I thought. Then I felt a small heartbreak, because that would be beyond amazing. Never gonna happen though ):

  • Ceelion #16 1 year ago

    I'd love a sequel. I think Bayonetta will be my game of the year!

  • nuanimal #17 1 year ago

    As a side note - I do hope the friggin' brilliant Vanquish was a commericail success for Platinum Games. Best of luck!

  • Retro_ #18 1 year ago

    Vanquish, PS3 version.....Brilliant !, Bayonetta, PS3 version......still in it's wrapping !

  • chessboxer #19 1 year ago

    Am I the only one who thought the Bayonetta story was batshit crazy? It made less sense than the NG series but the gameplay was ok.

  • Bander #20 9 months ago

    I'd love for Platinum to work on an old Sega IP at some point. Hideki Kamiya is a fan of several of Sega's arcade games (very apparent in Bayonetta), and the likes of Shinobi deserve better than what Sega's currently doing with the name. I recall that he's a fan of Wonderboy/Monster World too, which falls into the same genre as Okami.

    Edit: Oops, didn't realise that this was an old story.
    Edited by Bander at 30/08/11 @ 21:59