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Acquisitions seem to be spreading like wildfire right now. Microsoft is gear up to larn Activision Blizzard for nearly $70 billion, and Sony is scooping up Bungie for $3.half-dozen billion. Questions near who'due south getting bought next are being asked constantly, and Platinum Games is the latest studio to ponder the possibility.

Platinum Games CEO Atushi Inaba is up for it, according to an interview with VGC, but being able to preserve the studio'south freedom is paramount. "The most important matter for the states is to take the freedom to make the games that we want to make," Inaba explained. "So I would not turn annihilation down, as long equally our freedom was withal respected." Microsoft has been public most wanting to larn a Japanese studio to expand the Xbox brand in that region, and nether the right atmospheric condition, it sounds like Platinum Games could exist the i.

Inaba as well commented on the Activision Blizzard conquering, clarifying that Platinum's want for freedom isn't a dig on what's happening over there. "I don't think Microsoft is going to start micromanaging Activision to where they accept away all their freedom," he said. "I think there's going to exist a lot of mutual respect there, and I retrieve Activision will be able to continue doing what they practise all-time." Of course, that hasn't stopped reports about a 2023 Warzone sequel being the last one on a PlayStation console.

As for Platinum'southward ain plans, Bayonetta 3 and Babylon's Fall are next on the docket. Those waiting for a Bayonetta three release date can leap into a Babylon'due south Autumn demo soon. That'll be available starting Friday, February 25.