{"id":791968,"date":"2026-10-04T19:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T19:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/791968\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T19:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T19:46:12","slug":"platinumgames-boss-hints-he-wants-to-expand-bayonetta-as-stellar-blade-director-calls-the-series-indispensable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/791968\/","title":{"rendered":"PlatinumGames boss hints he wants to expand Bayonetta as Stellar Blade director calls the series “indispensable”"},"content":{"rendered":"

PlatinumGames president Atsushi Inaba has hinted he’d like to expand the character of Bayonetta<\/a> and broaden her world.<\/p>\n

While he stopped short of confirming a new game, Famitsu<\/a> reports that when Inaba sat down with Shift Up CEO and Stellar Blade<\/a> director Kim Hyung-tae during Tokyo Game Show held to mark a crossover bringing four Bayonetta-themed costumes to Stellar Blade Complete Edition on Switch 2<\/a> this November, he admitted he still had a desire to expand the franchise further.<\/p>\n

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Stellar Blade – Official Bayonetta Collaboration Trailer.Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

Kim used the opportunity to gush about the series himself, calling Bayonetta “an indispensable work in my life” (albeit via machine-translation) and naming it one of his three favourite games, while admitting he had to control himself while designing his own Bayonetta-inspired “Black Dress” costume so it wouldn’t go too far. He even asked, half-joking, to design characters for the next entry himself.<\/p>\n

Asked directly about that next entry, Inaba declined to give specifics, telling Famitsu only to wait and see.<\/p>\n

It’s certainly more optimistic than recent conversations – series creator Hideki Kamiya left Platinum in October 2023, saying at the time he’d envisioned Bayonetta as a nine-part saga he may now take “to the grave” with him<\/a> – and Bayonetta 3<\/a> director Yusuke Miyata has also since departed.<\/p>\n

If she does come back, it won’t be with her iconic Japanese voice work as the series recently lost Bayonetta’s Japanese voice actress Atsuko Tanaka<\/a>, who died in August 2024 aged 61.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PlatinumGames president Atsushi Inaba has hinted he’d like to expand the character of Bayonetta and broaden her world.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-791968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}