Platinum says it could show Project GG at next year’s E3
PlatinumGames‘ ambitious Project GG may be in a state to be shown off by E3 2023, its execs have claimed.
In a new interview with Famitsu to discuss the appointment of former Nintendo licensing general manager Takao Yamane as its new vice president and CBO, the topic of Project GG was raised.
Announced in February 2020, Project GG was described at the time as an action game featuring a giant hero, described as the ‘climax’ to director Hideki Kamiya’s superhero trilogy, following Viewtiful Joe and The Wonderful 101.
Now in Famitsu’s latest interview it appears the studio’s ambitions for the game have become greater over time, following its decision to self-publish and investment from Tencent.
When asked by Famitsu about the game’s current development state, vice president Hideki Kamiya answered: “I can’t give you any specifics (laugh). I can only speak in the abstract, but I don’t think that Project GG would have become a project of the scale it is today if it was just my idea alone.
“Project GG started when I first presented the core of the game. That core is also contained in the teaser trailer. To put it simply, I was only thinking about what was in that video.
“The way we expanded from there had a lot to do with [president and CEO Atsushi] Inaba’s big ambitions. Rather than creating a single game, Inaba’s proposal was to say ‘this is the kind of game Platinum Games is going to make from now on’.
“In response to this, I said ‘I see, we could certainly realise this in a way that would flesh out the core of Project GG’, and we expanded it into the large-scale project that it is today. I personally did not expect the game to take this form.”
When asked if the game was a typical Platinum action title like Kamiya’s previous
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