These past few years, we’ve seen a lot of Japanese – as well as previously console-only – titles hitting the PC. And that’s because the PC market is currently huge and, let’s face it, most publishers and developers cannot simply ignore it. The same applies to the developer behind Bayonetta and Vanquish who told PCGamer that it would love to see all of its titles on our platform.
As a spokesperson for PlatinumGames told PCGamer:
“The PC market is huge and can definitely not be ignored. We are absolutely aware of that, and we’ve always felt this way. We’ve always had a positive stance towards porting our titles to PC, but the decisions as to which platforms we release our games on, and which platforms are the main focus for the games we make are largely made by the publishers, so this is not something we can decide on our own.”
Of course this does not surprise us at all. After all, we’ve seen images of Japanese developers testing their games on the PC platformlong before such versions were officially announced. Bayonetta and Metal Gears Solid V come immediately to mind, and we all know that Square Enix has already up and running an experimental PC version of Final Fantasy XV.
As the spokesperson for PlatinumGames concluded, if it was up to them, they would release all of their games to the PC. However, the publishers decide for which platforms their games will be released on.
“If it were up to us, we’d port all of our games to PC, but it all depends on the publishers.
We still feel strongly about putting more consideration into the PC market. If our current efforts prove successful, this will only make PC development more attractive.”
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Oh dso, you break my heart by posting that image! I thought there was news on the PC port of Vanquish.
Like Bayonetta, Vanquish was published by SEGA and developed by Platinum. Give it a year or 2, it’ll definitely make the jump.
nah, they’ll release it summer most likely
Or summer 10 years from now.
trash game though
What,
Lol no. Vanquish is one of Mikami’s best games. Short but sweet.
The publisher SEGA is pretty PC friendly, so I’m getting my hopes high
They need to and make extra money. Some Publishers are noticing just how large the PC games market really is. I’ve seen it reported on several sites that it was well over 30 billion dollars in 2016 worldwide out of a 90 billion dollar market for all platforms including mobile and every year PC gaming just generates more revenue. Sure, there are pirates but over 30 billion dollars in sales is a huge amount of money on the table for grabs.
I know that a good bit of that money goes to games like League of Legends which reported 1.7 billion dollars in micro-transactions in 2016 but even so there’s a lot of money in AAA titles for PC.
Sooner or later these publishers will come around. After all they can’t just ignore PC forever. Especially now when PC is becoming the biggest gaming market.
Just hope they don’t see the Mobile market.
PC has been the biggest gaming market for well over a decade.
yep for example with my pc i can play final fantasy xv…ops no !
P* just do it and say sorry after.
P*: “We are sorry for making a PC port. We promise to not… oops… i seem to have dropped my huge wad of hundred dollars bills. Sorry about that, ever sense we release are games on PC we have had soo much money we don’t actually know what to do with it, so we throw it in to a shredder every now and then.”
And how many ports from “all of our games” will actually work ?
They do work. They just have odd quirks.
We’ll be getting a lot of them. Bayonetta skyrocketed to the #1 top seller very quickly after being released, with no marketing outside that April Fool’s game last week. Vanquish is almost guaranteed as that’s also a SEGA title. More than anything, I’d love to see Capcom port the games they published under Clover. Viewtiful Joe, God Hand, Devil May Cry 1-3…
DMC 3 is already on PC, but redoing it would be nice since it’s a poor port. Mods help but it’s still pretty rough.
Ya, I don’t really count it due to how awful it is. RE4 got re-ported for the exact same reason, so I don’t see why this shouldn’t.
Especially after the ridiculously good DMC4SE PC port.
Sega is seeing the writing on the wall with the constant threat of Xbox 360 and PS3 emulation so it’s best to make some buck while it’s still hot. Good for Sega, better late than never. Microsheeeit on the other hand…
A good port is always better than emulation by miles.
From PS2 onwards, pretty much, hell, even a bad port is better. But if ports doesn’t exist, then emulation it is then.
Now if only Rocksh*ts would see the light & give us Red Dead Redemption, already >.>
Sega is the only Japanese company who has embraced emulation on PC, actually. There are literally hundreds of Sega Genesis and Dreamcast games on PC that they built their own emulator for.
The thing is these games don’t need marketing and they know it. We’ve been asking for them for years, a decade or more in many cases (these = Japanese console games with no PC release).
DMC 3 special edition is on PC. DMC1 and 2 would be nice though, as well as Viewtiful Joe and Godhand.
I’m still waiting on Megaman X HD trilogy. I don’t even care about Mega Man X collection, which I own on PS2 (extremely hard to find since the GC version is more common) – I’ll pay for the first 3. I’d buy either, really.
Capcom has no idea how to run their business though, just like Konami.
I want a complete remaster of GodHand. It’s one of the only console games ever that I regret not being able to play as a PC gamer. I’ll be getting Bayonetta during the Christmas sale and playing the hell out of it.
How is the PS2 emulation version of God Hand?
I own Anarchy Reigns on Xbox 360. You’re not missing anything major.
Vanquish on PC would be amazing though !
“Of course this does not surprise us at all. After all, we’ve seen images of Japanese developers testing their games on the PC platformlong before such versions were officially announced.”
What about that meme that all games are developed on PC?
Platinum Games co-founder hinted at a Vanquish PC port back in 2016. I expect it to happen sometime this year.
This. Hell, it should have already happened years ago, considering Metal Gear Rising’s sales numbers, but yeah.
COME ON, PLATINUM!
Bayonetta 2 and most of all Wonderful 101
Cheers
Sadly those are both Wii U-exclusives, so I wouldn’t hold my breath, but I like your thinking 😀
I’m pretty sure Sega has already decided to release Vanquish, last year, and is working on it.