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Buffalo wrote:The Wii U’s touch screen was fairly trash, in my opinion.

shy guy 64 wrote:thats the release date for 101 remastered revealed, march 22nd

Tomous wrote:

shy guy 64 wrote:thats the release date for 101 remastered revealed, march 22nd

May 22nd*

Now, Platinum has also revealed that its third “Platinum4” announcement isn’t a new game, but a new studio.

While PlatinumGames’ main studio is in Osaka, Japan, this new studio is being set up in Tokyo and will begin operations April 2020. In addition to being involved with Project G.G., the Tokyo studio will also explore the possibility of developing “console live ops game development,” referring to games as a service.

PlatinumGames CEO Kenichi Sato states: “In December 2019, PlatinumGames entered into a capital alliance with Tencent Holdings. This allowed us to start work on Project G.G., our first entirely original IP, in earnest. It also contributed to our decision to establish PlatinumGames Tokyo – a pillar of our new commitment to building our power as a developer. Between our Osaka office and PlatinumGames Tokyo, we’re poised to make use of the sharpest creative minds in games in both west and east Japan, and expand to even greater possibilities.”

shy guy 64 wrote:wait what was number 2?

Tomous wrote:

shy guy 64 wrote:wait what was number 2?

Project GG. Check the other thread.

PlatinumGames' Atsushi Inaba wrote: First off, the money is going towards the production of all the goods—I don’t know if you’ve seen all the tiers and their rewards, but those cost money to produce. The rest of the money is going towards the additional content that will be added to the game. All that costs money, and it takes time and work to port the game to the additional platforms. I want to clarify that we didn’t do the campaign to ‘get money’ or anything like that—that wasn’t the point of it. The main goal was to bring the fans together, gauge interest, and find a good way to revisit and release the game.

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Tomous wrote:...people just seem upset that it doesn't fit the criteria of projects they think kickstarter should be used for.

jawa4 wrote:

Tomous wrote:...people just seem upset that it doesn't fit the criteria of projects they think kickstarter should be used for.

I think that could be the little niggle that I feel about the situation, Tom. In my mind I think of Kickstarter as being focused on smaller businesses trying to get an idea off the ground; they need funding in order to deliver their vision. Platinum appears to have practically finished the vast bulk of the game development before launching the Kickstarter; with the money received (sure, they asked for £50k but have so far gained £1.5m) feeling more like a pre-order scheme than development funding.

I think it's fantastic that The Wonderful 101 is releasing on new platforms and supporters of the Kickstarter project are receiving what they want, but I just wonder if the success of this Kickstarter could cause other developers to try their hand at the idea. In my mind - and maybe I'm wrong! - Kickstarter isn't really designed to be used in this way; it's not a pre-order / advertising platform.

Tomous wrote:...If anything it drives traffic to the site and if people have enjoyable experiences with more reliable devs like Platinum, they might be included to use Kickstarter more, benefiting the smaller devs. There's not a finite amount of Kickstarter resource being used up here.