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PlatinumGames isn't thinking about NFTs or the blockchain right now, co-ordinate to studio heads Atsushi Inaba and Hideki Kamiya. The studio appreciates, though, that the NFTs will gain more than importance equally content heads further down the digital path it'south now firmly on.

Speaking to VGC, Inaba explained that PlatinumGames isn't really thinking near NFTs or the blockchain. Inaba adds that he "understands information technology's a hot topic right now and it'due south really starting to gain momentum." He isn't a fan of how NFTs are being used, claiming that companies and early on adopters are using NFTs purely as money-making devices. Inaba would rather spend his fourth dimension on "making good games." This could include a comeback for Scalebound.

Inaba farther clarifies that while he feels "as content gets more than and more digital," the "NFT as a concept will proceeds more importance," merely he is non interested in using NFTs as "a way to profit as much as possible." It'southward a feeling that is shared with Kamiya, who jokes that "if information technology smells like money, Konami's going to exist there in a heartbeat!" when asked if he was surprised to encounter Konami involved in NFTs equally before long as it was.

Kamiya echoes Inaba'southward sentiment on NFTs and blockchain, adding that "it doesn't accept any benefit for users at the moment." He does add that if the NFT and blockchain system changes and is "expanded in a way that has a positive side for users, and then maybe I'll showtime to be interested in what they do with it."

PlatinumGames understands that NFTs and the blockchain could become more than important in the future, but double down that the studio but isn't interested right now. Information technology's a refreshingly honest opinion from the studio after the long list of companies, including Team17, being left scrambling to save face past quickly canceling recently announced and wildly unpopular NFT plans.