Happy New Year, everyone!
And thank you for your continuously amazing support!

So how has the past year treated you?
I feel that 2013 has been a year of expansion for us here at PlatinumGames. Last year, we released 3 titles in the west: “Anarchy Reigns,” “Metal Gear Rising Revengeance,” and “The Wonderful 101.” The latter two were handled by completely new publishers for us, and I’m sure they were the first PlatinumGames experience for a lot of gamers out there. Expanding into new territories like this is an extremely positive thing for people working in videogame development, and we’re very happy to have received your support. Thanks, everyone.

2014. I think this will be a year of change for the game industry.

The PS4 and Xbox One have already been released overseas, and the PS4 will see the light of day here in Japan in late February. I’m sure the Xbox One will follow suit as well in the course of the year. The software market is sure to change significantly as well this year, and it is inevitable that we’ll get to see new environments and new technology related to videogames. In order to keep up with these changes, I think we will have to put a lot of effort into taking new challenges this year. Perhaps this is the same feeling we had when we first started PlatinumGames. We have to return to our original intentions. This is how we want to go into the New Year.

Last year, Tokyo was chosen as the venue for the 2020 Olympics. The entire country was filled with joy and energy at this wonderful news, so we get to start the New Year with fresh and renewed vigor. Since we strive to be “The Japanese Standard Bearer in Global Competition,” we intend to devote all of this new-found energy to make 2014 another exciting and action-packed year. We hope you will continue to provide us the same enthusiastic support throughout this year as well.

President & CEO

Tatsuya Minami