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PlatinumGames isn't thinking near NFTs or the blockchain right now, according to studio heads Atsushi Inaba and Hideki Kamiya. The studio appreciates, though, that the NFTs will gain more importance as content heads further downward the digital path information technology'due south now firmly on.

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

Inaba further clarifies that while he feels "every bit content gets more than and more digital," the "NFT as a concept will gain more than importance," merely he is not interested in using NFTs as "a style to turn a profit as much every bit possible." It's a feeling that is shared with Kamiya, who jokes that "if it smells like money, Konami's going to be at that place in a heartbeat!" when asked if he was surprised to see Konami involved in NFTs as shortly as it was.

Kamiya echoes Inaba'south sentiment on NFTs and blockchain, adding that "it doesn't have any benefit for users at the moment." He does add together 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 start to be interested in what they practice with it."

PlatinumGames understands that NFTs and the blockchain could go more important in the time to come, but double down that the studio just isn't interested right at present. It'due south a refreshingly honest stance from the studio afterwards the long list of companies, including Team17, being left scrambling to salvage face by chop-chop canceling recently appear and wildly unpopular NFT plans.