SEGA sent the Platinum Games staff across the great Pacific Ocean for the full unveiling of the hot-shot developer's first three games this past week. It seems that the editorial staff of Famitsu.com followed them, and managed to return to Japan with a lengthy interview. Here's a recap of the Famitsu question and answer session with Shigenori Nishikawa, Hifumi Kono, Tatsuya Minami, Atsuhi Inaba, and Hideki Kamiya.

The site first asked Team Platinum, whose core staff originates from Capcom and the now defunct Clover Studio (Viewtiful Joe, Okami), why they went with SEGA as a publisher. Minami shared that the company was in talks with a number of publishers, but the biggest reason that they ended up going with SEGA is because the freedom offered to them would be high. "Looking at the current game industry, there are a lot of sequels, and many publishers want these," explained Minami. "If we were to make sequels, we wouldn't have left our previous company. We just wanted to make original titles, and SEGA was best for realizing that desire."