Hideki Kamiya Debates Suing Customers Saying He Stole From Xbox

Hideki Kamiya, the legendary director behind the likes of Resident Evil 2, Ōkami, and Bayonetta, has been debating whether or not he ought to sue customers on X who’ve accused him of stealing cash from Xbox throughout the growth of PlatinumGames’ canceled title Scalebound.

The accusations in query stemmed from Kamiya’s latest interview with VGC, throughout which he was requested if he’d spoken to Xbox CEO Asha Sharma about the potential of “reviving” Scalebound. “Nicely, no, however now’s my alternative to as soon as once more say that in the event that they need to do it, let’s make it occur!” replied Kamiya. “Koyama is on board too. When you might embrace some footage [of Scalebound] in your article for Asha, that might be helpful.”

For context, Scalebound was an motion RPG developed by PlatinumGames and set to be revealed by Microsoft Studios, however was in the end canceled in 2017. Kamiya was helming the mission throughout its 4 years of growth, though he has since parted methods with PlatinumGames and joined a brand new studio, Clovers, in 2023.

There’s no concrete information on precisely how a lot Scalebound value to develop, nor has both Microsoft or PlatinumGames in any means implied that Kamiya used the funds allotted to the mission for different functions.

お前も名誉毀損で訴えてやろうか…？ https://t.co/2c9eYDEcKq

— 神谷英樹🍀 Hideki Kamiya🍀 (@HidekiKamiya_X) September 4, 2026

Nonetheless, for causes I genuinely can’t discern, some Xbox fans wholeheartedly consider that Kamiya diverted funds from Scalebound to pay for Bayonetta 2’s growth… a sport that was revealed by a small indie firm you might have heard of named Nintendo.

Precisely how this oddly widespread rumor got here to be is a thriller to me, however Kamiya, who’s well-known for steadily interacting with customers on social media, has addressed the unfounded allegations in two separate quote tweets on X by outright threatening to sue these pushing this narrative.

こういうデマを撒き散らしてるクソ虫は名誉毀損で訴えるぞ… https://t.co/mUM1Ht3Pu5

— 神谷英樹🍀 Hideki Kamiya🍀 (@HidekiKamiya_X) September 4, 2026

In a single publish, in reply to a person stating that Kamiya would “[grab] the finances from Scalebound so he can develop a sport for his studio,” he replied (machine-translated from Japanese) that he was “gonna sue these shitty bugs spreading this sort of pretend information for defamation…”

Equally, when one other person acknowledged that Kamiya would “simply steal the cash to make different merchandise once more,” his reply was extra straightforwardly threatening: “Ought to I sue you for defamation too…?”

It’s a somewhat weird sequence of exchanges, however nothing too out of the bizarre the place Kamiya is anxious. Personally, nonetheless, I’m much more occupied with discerning why this rumor got here to be within the first place, particularly when PlatinumGames’ president and CEO, Atsushi Inaba, stated in 2023 that “watching followers getting indignant at Microsoft over [Scalebound’s] cancellation wasn’t straightforward for [PlatinumGames] to look at,” as “either side” had been guilty for the mission getting canned.