"Obviously when they announced that they were doing Bayonetta 3, they got an incredibly kind, supportive reactions about that title. Inaba-san himself is producing that. Obviously Kamiya-san is going to provide some feedback from the Bayonetta 1 angle, since he was the director on that. But for Inaba-san, Bayonetta 3 represents a turning point for the company in how they make games. And so Bayonetta 3, for taking a linear forward progression action game, they really want to do something new, add in new gimmicks, new ways to play the game, and then he walked it back a bit, and said, 'Wait a second, I can't even really talk about the job for us.' So let's pretend you didn't hear that, because right now we don't know, maybe it will be something different. However, for them, they see this as a key point to design the game because obviously Bayonetta 2 was a fantastic title, but they need to make sure this is leaps and bounds above that even."
As for Kamiya, who directed the first Bayonetta, Platinum is "still internally thinking" about his role for Bayonetta 3. But like Inaba, he's aware that the expectations are high for the Switch game. Thankfully, fan support has helped push the team.

Kamiya said the following through his translator:

"... To the point that was made earlier, while they may not make games for the end user, they're certainly reticent of the fact that there's a lot of fans that like them and have ...