Platinum Games says kickstarting The Wonderful 101 is “a very unique case” - mosergine1988

The Wonderful 101: Remastered has been successfully crowdfunded to bring down the Wii U game to the Electric switch, PlayStation 4, and PC, but Atomic number 78 Games is keen to clarify that this was "a very singular case." (via VGC)

Conductor Hideki Kamiya cares really much for The Wonderful 101. He had been bedevilment publisher Nintendo, "trying to negotiate with [it] whether a possible Wonderful 101 Swap release could take place" for quite some time. Though there was a badger shown in The Wonderful 101 heroes playing together on a Switch, it seemed that the idea of a re-release or a sequel wasn't looking likely. "From their linear perspective obviously there are things they can't talk almost, astir dealings they possess with Nintendo," said administrator director Atsushi Inaba in 2018. "Certainly they can suppose everything they said during the speech, which was, 'Hey, we should do that.' Merely whether that is a 'we are going to do that', and what the likelihood is of that happening, is just going to have to be something you wait to uncovering dead."

Now, The Wonderful 101: Remastered has pixilated its first three goals, generating ¥111 million in funding, and the game is coming to the Electric switch, PlayStation 4, and PC some time in April. The appearance of the hunting expedition, though precise much welcomed by fans, confused populate because Platinum Games had recently gotten investment from Tencent Holdings (the world's biggest gaming company). Talking to VGC, Inaba and Kamiya shed a undersized light on the interior workings of the studio. "The first matter I'd like everyone to understand is that although our ship's company has lento started to rise, it doesn't necessarily mean that we can suddenly do everything we've always wanted to," explained Inaba. "I felt there was an imbalance in the number of people who actually got to trifle [The Wondrous 101] compared to the amount of passion and quality that was put into creating it." Disdain Platinum Games' continuing efforts, it "failed to bear any fruit" because enthusiasm is plainly not sufficient to appeal prospective publishers. "I feel that Kickstarter's crowdfunding capabilities allows USA to leap out past such boundaries and tie in in real time with users," rationalised Inaba.

Atomic number 78 Games has four projects in the grapevine. The number 1 is, of course, The Wonderful 101: Remastered. Nonetheless, the explosive success of this Kickstarter does not mean that the studio will stick to this approach. "For this particular project, all the factors seemed to come unitedly for crowdfunding to make mother wit. The fact that we yearned-for to revisit the game, the fact Nintendo allowed U.S. to doh it and the timing was good. Soh we consider this a very unique grammatical case," said Inaba, and added that the future projects will constitute well-advised on a "type-aside-case" basis and occasionally, some things wish be "down of our hands." Kamiya same that Nintendo was "really nice" regarding the remaster, and its only caveat was that information technology didn't want to bring The Terrific 101 to Microcomputer and Playstation 4.

"Atomic number 78 has a in truth good relationship with Nintendo. We've been with Nintendo from the very source and we've released very much of games with them, including Astral Chain which recently free and was a big success," explained Inaba. "So I think it's mostly thanks to our human relationship with Nintendo that they sort of decided to give us a break. I think back information technology's our history that information technology's largely attributed to. We were quite surprised ourselves. This is usually not something that is allowed in the games industry. We see it as a very unparalleled opportunity that Nintendo has given us and we'rhenium pleased to receive information technology."

The Wonderful 101: Remastered is coming to PlayStation 4, PC, and Nintendo Change in April 2020.