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

If there’s one game Nintendo fans are hoping to see more of this year, it’s the sequel to Breath of the Wild. But if there’s one after that, it’s Metroid Prime 4. But if there’s one after that then it’s most probably Bayonetta 3.

We’ve been eagerly awaiting news on the return of the Umbran Witch ever since the game was initially revealed at the Game Awards in 2017. As it turns out, Platinum have been incredibly tight-lipped about the project.

Speaking to VGC, Platinum co-founder Hideki Kamiya hinted that we could well see the game later this year, but we should all just forget about it so it’s a surprise when they do show more:

“It’s not really our position to say, but… it’s January. We’ve got to have something come out, right? I guess it’s safe to expect that something will come out. There’s still a lot of the year left is what I’m saying.
VGC: By “update”, do you mean something more substantial than another CGI logo?
Kamiya: (Laughs) I understand it’s driving the fans crazy! In light of that, my suggestion would be that maybe we should all reset and forget about Bayonetta 3. Then when something finally does happen, it will be a nice surprise, won’t it?”

Elsewhere in the interview, which was also conducted with fellow co-founder Atsushi Inaba, Kamiya and Inaba alluded to the fact that as the game is not being published by Platinum themselves, they can’t be quite as open about its progress as they can with their self-published works - something they’re hoping to address with the upcoming Project GG:

“Inaba: I think we would really like to make this something that is more open and visible to our fans and the media. What we have at the moment, we just did a short little teaser and then it’s been a year since then. But that’s not how we always want things to be: we definitely want to have a closer interaction with our fans and so we’re hoping to get to that development style where we can share things as we move along.
Kamiya: Also, since we’re self-publishing, there are no publishers to get mad at me this time, so I’ll be sharing things online, putting up screenshots whenever I like…
Inaba: I’ll get mad at you!
We don’t have that much say over projects that we’re not publishing. And we understand different titles require different approaches, so we respect the publisher’s decisions.
So if there is a difference between what we want to do with Project G.G. versus what we normally do with our other titles, it’s not really a criticism for those publishers: we respect their approaches. But for this title especially, our approach as a company is that we’re hoping to be more open.”

It’s positive to hear that we could well see something substantial about both Bayonetta 3 and the mysterious Project GG at some point in 2021. Let us know if you’ve been eagerly awaiting Bayonetta 3 down in the comments!

Source: VGC