{"id":8410,"date":"2022-01-13T16:45:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T07:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=8410"},"modified":"2022-01-13T16:48:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T07:48:31","slug":"20220113-8410","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20220113-8410\/","title":{"rendered":"Atsushi Inaba appointed as new CEO of PlatinumGames"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Written by. Ryuki Ishii based on the original Japanese article<\/a> (original article’s publication date: 2022-01-13 15:38<\/em> JST)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


PlatinumGames appointed<\/a> Atsushi Inaba as the company\u2019s new CEO. Kenichi Sato stepped down from the position at the end of December and will remain in the company as an advisor.
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When PlatinumGames was formed in 2007, ex-Capcom Tatsuya Minami was appointed first as president and CEO. Minami stepped down in 2016, and Ex-Sega Kenichi Sato succeeded him. Now the baton has been passed to Atsushi Inaba, one of the company\u2019s prominent figures alongside Hideki Kamiya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inaba started out his career as a programmer and produced titles such as Ace Attorney<\/em>, Steel Battalion<\/em>, and Viewtiful Joe<\/em> at Capcom. He has been overseeing projects as PlatinumGames\u2019 studio head for quite some time and became the vice president of the company in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PlatinumGames received an investment from Tencent in 2020 and made a statement about self-publishing games in the future. It will be interesting to see how veteran producer Inaba will manage the company going forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A President\u2019s Message from Inaba can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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