Should you can consider that a lot time has handed, Bayonetta is 15 years previous now, and PlatinumGames has teased… one thing!
To be pedantic about it, Bayonetta technically turned 15 final yr, as the sport’s earliest launch date was on October 29, 2009 in Japan, however for the remainder of the world it got here a bit later. Within the US it got here out January 5, Australia January 7, and the EU January 8, so PlatinumGames determined to acknowledge the sport’s anniversary right now, January 6 (cut up the distinction, you already know). Over on Twitter the official PlatinumGames account even famous that the worldwide launch was in January 2010, “so we’re making 2025 right into a yr of celebration.” Most notably, although, is the tease it supplied up: “We’ve got a number of issues in retailer to rejoice this milestone so preserve your eyes peeled.”
What does that imply? Who is aware of! PlatinumGames’ official web site has a fifteenth anniversary assertion too, the place it notes that it appears ahead to “your continued help of Bayonetta and PlatinumGames,” so there’s some form of implication that there is perhaps one thing else coming, however the first query is what, and the second, most likely extra necessary query, is from who? Bayonetta creator and PlatinumGames co-founder Hideki Kamiya left the studio in 2023, and ultimately yr’s The Sport Awards it was revealed he is lastly making an Okami sequel at his new studio Clovers.
On high of that, in an interview with VGC, Kamiya confirmed that almost all of Clovers staffers are from Platinum. There’s additionally been hypothesis that a variety of different key members at Platinum have left, although that is but to be 100% confirmed. That doubtlessly places Platinum in a little bit of a clumsy spot, and with the one beforehand introduced sport being Challenge G.G., a Kamiya-led title, it is not clear what the studio is engaged on proper now. However hey! You’ll rejoice one thing with Bayonetta. Sooner or later. Theoretically.
