This article was originally written for TheNintendoVillage.com, a website I founded and ran from 2018 to 2021.

Platinum teased four new announcements with the launch of their Platinum 4 website a little while back, and we’re now three quarters of the way to the full reveal.

Off the back of The Wonderful 101 Remastered Kickstarter and yesterday’s reveal of Project GG, the company has now announced that they will be opening a brand new studio in Tokyo, in addition to their existing Osaka HQ.

Vice President and Studio Head Atsushi Inaba, in a blog post on the company’s website, detailed how the new studio will partly be focused on supporting and developing games outside of the company’s traditional one-and-done single player experiences:

“So far, the name PlatinumGames has been nearly synonymous with single-player action games. But going forward, we’re looking to expand into new genres and styles of play. One of these new challenges for us is console live ops game development. These aren’t games we’d work on until they were done, and that’s all – rather, we’d continue working on them to provide new content long after release. We want to explore this ongoing development pattern in the home console space.
Our new Tokyo office will play a major role as we expand into live ops game development. The starting core members of our future live ops team who’ll be working there are already a part of PlatinumGames.”

According to a Famitsu interview with Hideki Kamiya, the studio will grow from it’s current 15 person occupation to a building housing 100 staff, some of whom will be working on Project GG.

It’s certainly exciting times for the company, we’re looking forward to see what else they cook up going forward!

Source: Platinum, GoNintendo