Welcome to PlatinumGames.com
January 27th, 2009 by PlatinumGames
Filed: Community, PlatinumGames
PlatinumGames.com is home to all the information you could want to know about PlatinumGames, our creators, and our titles. We recently updated PlatinumGames.co.jp to reflect our new corporate logo with a new design that features some user interactivity. PlatinumGames.com is this idea on a whole new level, tailored to fit the expectations of our fans outside of Japan.
Japanese game companies are notorious for not “getting it”. They are thought of as slow moving, orthodox, and out of touch. One of the places where Japanese companies seem to not “get it” is community. Sure, you may have an American branch leading a great community effort, but it is very rare for a Japanese company to reach out in a meaningful way to its Western users.
PlatinumGames.com is our attempt at getting it right. It isn’t simply a translation of our Japanese webpage. It is part corporate homepage, part purpose built community portal. We want you to know who we are, but we also want to know who you are. PlatinumGames is not only about our creators, or our titles, it is about our fans. We want you to gather around our titles and interact with PlatinumGames staff and other fans. We want to involve you in our process of creation, and we want to be involved in your experience after you’ve paid your hard earned dollars for the fruits of our hard work. A game really isn’t finished until a user is finished playing it. We want to be there with you every step of the way.
PlatinumGames wasn’t built on some arcane system requiring multiple logins and draconian moderation. It’s built on proven, open tools like WordPress, to make it easy for you to interact with us. We’re on Twitter, Flickr, and Facebook, so you can access and interact with our content from wherever you’d like. You can even access PlatinumGames.com from your iPhone or other Smartphone browser on the go. All of these tools provide a great way to interact with us; however, we also want you to interact with each other as well. That is why we’ve integrated a forum system where you can talk about what interests you. We’ll hop into the discussions from time to time as well.
While our blogs and forums are a big part of the site, we realize you might want to actually see and hear from us. That is why we’ve created PGTV, our video podcast series that will give you an inside look at PlatinumGames and a seat at the table with our most talented creators. From interviews to behind the scenes looks, it will be the source of some of our most exciting content. Finally, we want to meet and greet as many of you as we can, so we plan on having community get-togethers whenever we get the chance, be it in LA, London, or Leipzig.
So welcome to our grand experiment. Its success depends on you.
-JP
International Coordinator, PlatinumGames Inc.
15 Comments Add Your Own
Rodrigo Posted on January 30, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Hi guys!
It's great to have a US website now. I'm a big fan of you and can't wait to play MADWORLD and Bayonetta. Keep up the good work!
Pheonix03 Posted on January 30, 2009 at 9:40 pm
Congradulations on your new website! It's excellent, and I will be visiting regularly. Thank You!
gnd Posted on January 30, 2009 at 10:08 pm
Yes! I'm all up for japanese developers getting in touch with the global world!
Congrats to all in Platinumgames!
Sharky Posted on January 30, 2009 at 11:14 pm
Hey guys! I love that you are getting intouch with the Western gamers I agree more Japanese developers should give us the time of day! I hope Sega Japan follow suit!
Heres hoping its all a great sucsess and that you continue to work with Sega!
=D
Okami4ever Posted on January 31, 2009 at 3:36 am
Sounds promising! Platinum games will more than likely become my favorite development studio. It's great you guys are doing this! I'm insanely excited about all of the upcoming Platinum games!
Braulio Posted on January 31, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Hey, guys, great introduction post. I can't wait to see more of Bayonnetta. Let's get more of that!
Keep up the good work =D
Guido Savio Posted on January 31, 2009 at 9:44 pm
Great!!!!
Sasukerik Posted on February 2, 2009 at 1:35 am
Great!!
Dan Posted on February 2, 2009 at 10:47 am
Awesome site, love that you want to keep in touch with your fans. hope to see lots of Bayonetta news and more info on future games, also Mad World looks awesome (but I don't have a Wii yet)
Adrienne Posted on February 2, 2009 at 10:40 pm
I simply love this site. All too often when I want information about games I am interested in, I have navigate through a company's Japanese site and because my Japanese isn't that good, I have to make educated guesses or have someone translate the site for me. So it's so wonderful to see that I won't have to do any of that if I want information on any of the upcoming Platinum Games titles. Thank you so very much! I look forward to seeing more of what you have to offer in the near future.
Guido Savio Posted on February 3, 2009 at 11:53 pm
Hey can you give us coordinates for Google Earth to see where Platinum Games' studios In Osaka are located???
It will be really interesting
thanks!
Guido Savio Posted on February 3, 2009 at 11:55 pm
The page dedicated to MadWorld is giving me troubles saying I'm not allowed to see the content since I'm am too young…
But today is my 25th birthday… and the site doesn'y give the opportunity to send my age another time….
Hulk Davidson Posted on February 4, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Platinum Games: My favorite developer. Thanks for the kick-ass site.
Hyncharas Posted on January 7, 2010 at 4:49 am
Yeah I'm having the same problems as Guido Savio – almost every section wants me to verify my age, but the software obviously isn't working right. I have cookies and per-session cookies checked and the site isn't verifying them correctly.
PlatinumGames Posted on January 7, 2010 at 5:12 am
Thanks for reporting this. Some backend stuff on our server changed, causing the mishandling of certain cookies. We have identified the issue and should be pushing out a fix within the next day or so.