Producer Fumihiko Yasuda van Team Ninja heeft een leuk interview gedaan met VGC.
Yasuda geeft hier aan dat Team Ninja voorlopig klaar is met de Nioh-franchise en dat er ondanks de geruchten geen nieuwe Ninja Gaiden in ontwikkeling is. Wel zou Yasuda graag weer aan de slag willen gaan met de ninaj Ryu Hyabusa, maar niets is in productie.
Yasuda geeft verder aan dat er meerdere projecten in ontwikkeling zijn en dat Team Ninja graag een open wereld-game zou willen maken in de toekomst. Het lijkt er dus op dat het volgend project van Team Ninja iets compleet nieuws gaat worden.
With the release of the Nioh Collection and Complete Editions, does that mean Nioh as a series is also complete?
With Nioh CE and Nioh 2 CE, the story that we had built has come to an end. It’s reached a good point in the story where all the loose ends are tied up, so there are no plans for a sequel at this point. Of course, it’s something that is still possible in the future and that we will consider at a later date. But players can really enjoy the full story of Nioh with Nioh CE and Nioh 2 CE.
With the whole Nioh series coming to PC and PS5, can we expect a release on Xbox Series X/S too?
[laughs] There are no current plans for the Nioh series to be on Xbox consoles at this point, but of course the Ninja Gaiden series has had a long history on Microsoft‘s consoles. So if there was to be a new title in the Ninja Gaiden series in the future, we’d definitely like that to be on Xbox consoles.
Are there plans for a new Ninja Gaiden game then?
[laughs] No plans currently, but I’ve always wanted to make a new instalment in the series, so here’s hoping for that!
Having now developed for PS5 already with the Nioh Collection, what aspect of new-gen hardware do you think is going to be the most important for you and the studio?
The controller is a very important aspect for core gamers as that’s what you’re using so much when you’re playing a game on a console. So the DualSense’s adaptive triggers and haptic feedback are really interesting and those are going to be some big points moving forward. But the SSD is actually probably the biggest point I’m interested in just because the load times are going to be made so much smaller, which, for example, is going to open up new avenues for open world games being even more accessible to developers.
Is an open world game something Team Ninja wants to do next then?
There’s definitely no specific plans to speak of at this time, but Team Ninja as a whole would specifically like to take on the open world genre. But we feel at this point that there haven’t really been open world games with a lot of intensity, which are really action-packed from beginning to end. So we’d like to actually take that on as a potential challenge in the future, and try to put a new spin on the open world genre in that regard.
