Platinum Games have long sought to own their own intellectual properties and dream was made one step closer last month as it has emerged that the Japanese video game developer has finally acquired The Wonderful 101 trademark from Nintendo. They were granted the trademark from Nintendo on 19th August.
OWNER SECTION (current)
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STATE Washington
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OWNER SECTION (proposed)
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Game flopped when it was on wiiu… And flopped when it went multiple…. Sure it had a successful Kickstarter but the games sales where still low….
Maybe not super the best… Platinum /really/ fumbled that port after refusing to have Nintendo publish it so they could go multiplatform… I mean, the kickstarter was unnecessary. Overall weird/slightly scummy practice for a big company like that. If they have ideas for a sequel sure, but I don’t super trust them without somebody to keep them in check
Why would you WANT legal rights to this IP? It was a major flop on every platform it was on. The gameplay if I recall correctly was really meh and had an unbalanced / unfair difficulty where you could get hit by enemies that were off screen. VERY overrated developer, I’m shocked they’re still in business. None of their games have come even close to mainstream success.
Kamiya wanted to do a Wonder Blue game in the style of bayonetta or something.
but i think he left platinum games anyway…maybe the others thought it was an interesting idea.
I played this on Wii U and thought it was awesome. If I were a kid, I would have totally become huge fan of it and started drawing my own Wonderful OCs.
I feel like there was a lot of potential for this IP but yeah… I guess it never got realized.
I still have my Wonderful 101 game for Wii U. Sadly this underrated game is only known to few. Hopefully now Platinum will make a sequel or two.
You are right about Wonderful 101, but my comment is about another one. You are certainly, for a long time, not being seen. The question I ask is, excuse me, where have you been?