{"id":58193,"date":"2022-02-21T18:17:42","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T16:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=58193"},"modified":"2025-09-04T15:33:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T12:33:37","slug":"platinumgames-sees-no-benefit-in-nfts-for-gamers-or-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/platinumgames-sees-no-benefit-in-nfts-for-gamers-or-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"PlatinumGames sees no benefit in NFTs for gamers or developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The intrusion of NFTs into the gaming industry does not have a positive impact on either creators or users. Such a view was expressed in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/features\/interviews\/platinumgames-2022\/\">VGC<\/a> by the leaders of the Japanese console game developer PlatinumGames.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Atsushi Inaba and Vice President Hideki Kamiya described the growing industry interest in blockchain and digital assets as \u201cdisappointing.\u201d The managers noted that the studio \u201creally doesn\u2019t think about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI understand that this is a hot topic right now; it\u2019s gaining momentum. But the way this happens is focused on profit for companies, and it doesn\u2019t have a positive impact on creators or users in any sense. It\u2019s disappointing to observe this,\u201d Inaba said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to him, people who push NFTs to game companies \u201cpress for profit,\u201d not for the technology\u2019s benefit.<\/p>\n<p>His stance was echoed by Kamiya, who called his interest in NFT \u201czero.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cIn the future, if this develops in a way that has a positive side for users, perhaps I will take an interest. But at the moment I don\u2019t see that,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Asked whether he was surprised at how quickly such companies as Konami picked up the NFT topic, Kamiya stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cNot really. If there\u2019s money to be made, Konami will be there in an instant!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier in January 2022, the French gaming giant Ubisoft <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ubisoft-executive-comments-on-negative-player-reaction-to-nft-integration\">faced negative user reaction<\/a> to the attempt <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ubisoft-unveils-platform-for-trading-in-game-items-as-nfts\">to launch the NFT marketplace Quartz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NFTs&#8217; intrusion into the gaming industry does not have a positive impact on either creators or users. This view was expressed in an interview with VGC by the leaders of the Japanese console game developer PlatinumGames.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1155,1213,1138],"class_list":["post-58193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-games-and-gamefi","tag-nft","tag-opinions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"31","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58195,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58193\/revisions\/58195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}