Atsushi Inaba
Atsushi Inaba is a Japanese producer and businessman, and CEO at Osaka-based PlatinumGames.
In total, Inaba has worked on more than 30 games as a producer including Okami, Resident Evil: Code Veronica and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
Inaba started his career at Japanese developers Irem and SNK, before joining Capcom in 1998 to work on Hideki Kamiya‘s Devil May Cry, as well as games in the Ace Attorney and Steel Battallion series.
In 2004 Inaba, Kamiya and Shinji Mikami formed Capcom’s second-party studio Clover, where Inaba acted as CEO and produced Viewtiful Joe, Okami and God Hand.
Inaba left Capcom in 2006 to form his own company, Seeds. This eventually merged with another company, Odd, and was rebranded PlatinumGames.
Atsushi Inaba News
Platinum thinks hiring of Nintendo veteran can take the companies’ relationship to the next level
CEO Atsushi Inaba has called the studio's partnership with Nintendo "very important"
Interview: How PlatinumGames is betting on Nintendo expertise to shape its future
VGC speaks to the Bayonetta studio's new CBO, along with leaders Inaba and Kamiya, about its latest developments
Platinum CEO breaks silence on Babylon’s Fall closure: ‘We’re extremely sorry’
CEO Atsushi Inaba says the developer still wants to make live service games and insists it's gained valuable experience
Platinum says it could show Project GG at next year’s E3
The game will offer more than typical Platinum action, Kamiya says
Platinum claims it will ‘change significantly’ as it hires former Nintendo exec
Nintendo veteran Takao Yamane has joined the Bayonetta studio as a vice president
Interview: PlatinumGames doesn’t want to be known as ‘just the action game company’
The Bayonetta studio's newly-promoted president and vice president discuss service games, NFTs, Scalebound and more
Platinum’s CEO says he wouldn’t dismiss acquisition offers ‘as long as our freedom is respected’
President Atsushi Inaba thinks Activision will be afforded autonomy under Microsoft
Platinum says it wants to talk to Xbox about Scalebound: ‘Phil, let’s do it!’
"We'd like to have a proper discussion with Microsoft," says Platinum's president
Platinum’s new CEO wants to create ‘larger, riskier’ games and hints at live service focus
Plus Inaba appears to suggest that Project GG could be a live service type game
PlatinumGames’ president and CEO has stepped down
Atsushi Inaba has taken over from Kenichi Sato to help "accelerate efforts to create new games"