PlatinumGames CEO Atsushi Inaba has revealed that the developer is open to acquisition offers by another company, but only as long as it gets to maintain its freedom.
The topic came up when VGC asked Inaba about the matter, with regards to the Microsoft purchase of Activision Blizzard.
Inaba stated
The most important thing for us is to have the freedom to make the games that we want to make. What I hear about the recent acquisitions, I don’t think Microsoft is going to start micromanaging Activision to where they take away all their freedom… I don’t think it’s going to be a relationship like that.
I think there’s going to be a lot of mutual respect there and I think Activision will be able to continue doing what they do best. That’s also what’s most important to us at the end of the day, whatever form that takes for us and our company. So I would not turn anything down, as long as our freedom was still respected.
Inaba also said he found it strange that there are not as many mergers and acquisitions in Japan as there are in the rest of the world.