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

Of the handful of upcoming Switch games we know are definitely coming, Bayonetta 3 is one of the most anticipated. However, outside of a brief teaser back at the Game Awards in 2017, we’ve heard very little about the game.

Some fans have even been speculating that the game has been cancelled. Fortunately the game’s Director Hideki Kamiya has moved to quash those rumours in a new interview with VGC:

“I’m happy that there’s still anticipation for the title, but one thing I would like to address is the trend I’m seeing which is people who are starting to ask if the game has been cancelled. I want you guys to take any concerns you have like that and throw them out the window immediately because we’re still hard at work on it and it hasn’t been cancelled by any means. Please look forward to it!”

Good to know!

Elsewhere in the interview with Kamiya and Studio Head Atsushi Inaba they discuss the progress of Project GG, the release of The Wonderful 101: Remastered and expectations of the next generation of gaming consoles. Inaba had previously said that he wasn’t that excited by what’s been promised by PS5 and Xbox Series X so far, and clarified he didn’t think it was going to be as big a leap from the 16-bit days of the SNES to the 3D polygons we saw on the N64 and original PlayStation.

He did, however, have some warm words for the Nintendo Switch, as well as previous Nintendo handhelds:

“As an industry, it’s all very promising and I don’t want to be perceived as too negative. But to give another example of my point, the Nintendo Switch was very ground-breaking in how it was able to just to take a home console and make it portable. It’s something that you hadn’t seen a lot of people doing before: it took this wall, that perhaps a lot of people didn’t know even existed, and broke it down.
Switch opened up all these new possibilities. I think the Game Boy and the DS also did that: there were so many surprises in those. If you compare that to when you’re simply seeing graphical improvements or just ‘faster, bigger’… obviously it’s nice, but it doesn’t have that same inventive quality that really surprised me with past consoles.”

Are you more hyped for Bayonetta 3 or the next gen of games consoles? Let us know down in the comments.

Source: VGC.gg