{"id":507681,"date":"2025-11-17T21:50:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T21:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2189881"},"modified":"2025-11-17T21:50:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T21:50:46","slug":"platinumgames-says-nfts-have-no-positive-impact-on-creators-or-users-in-any-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/platinumgames-says-nfts-have-no-positive-impact-on-creators-or-users-in-any-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"PlatinumGames says NFTs have &#8220;no positive impact on creators or users in any sense&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/platinumgames-says-nfts-have-no-positive-impact-on-creators-or-users-in-any-sense.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As NFTs continue their insidious creep across the games industry, PlatinumGames &#8211; the studio behind the likes of Bayonetta, Nier: Automata, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2022-02-13-a-babylons-fall-demo-will-be-available-later-this-month\">imminent Babylon&#8217;s Fall<\/a> &#8211; has shared its own perspective on the issue, calling the spread of the controversial tech &#8220;frustrating&#8221;, given it offers &#8220;no positive impact on the creators or the users in any sense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Platimum&#8217;s CEO Atsushi Inaba and vice president Hideki Kamiya discussed NFTs and blockchain technology as part of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/features\/interviews\/platinumgames-2022\/\">extensive chat with VGC<\/a>, revealing that despite growing interest in the tech among gaming publishers, the studio hasn&#8217;t &#8220;really been thinking about that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2022-02-16-platinumgames-says-nfts-have-no-positive-impact-on-creators-or-users-in-any-sense\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2022-02-16-platinumgames-says-nfts-have-no-positive-impact-on-creators-or-users-in-any-sense\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As NFTs continue their insidious creep across the games industry, PlatinumGames &#8211; the studio behind the likes of Bayonetta, Nier: Automata, and the imminent Babylon&#8217;s Fall &#8211; has shared its own perspective on the issue, calling the spread of the controversial tech &#8220;frustrating&#8221;, given it offers &#8220;no positive impact on the creators or the users in any sense.&#8221; Platimum&#8217;s CEO Atsushi Inaba and vice president Hideki Kamiya discussed NFTs and blockchain technology as part of an extensive chat with VGC, revealing that despite growing interest in the tech among gaming publishers, the studio hasn&#8217;t &#8220;really been thinking about that.&#8221; Read more Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":507682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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