Team Ninja heeft in een interview met VideoGameChronicle aangegeven dat het team openstaat voor een nieuwe Ninja Gaiden-game die gemaakt wordt door een andere studio.
Ninja Gaiden is een geliefde franchise, maar Team Ninja heeft zich de laatste jaren gefocust op de Nioh-franchise. Momenteel werkt Team Ninja aan Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty (2023) en de open wereldgame Rise of the Ronin (2024).
Team Ninja heeft op dit moment geen tijd om te werken aan een nieuwe Ninja Gaiden. Daarom staat de studio open voor een samenwerking met een externe studio. Volgens directeur Yashuda “moeten alle puzzelstukjes wel op de juiste plaats vallen”.
In general, we’re very happy that there are so many fans of these existing IPs, and because there is this big fan base out there, we have a desire to please those fans. We’re so happy that people are big fans of our existing series, and so there is that feeling of wanting to create a new entry in those series.
But a lot of it is about balancing that desire to create these new games for these big fanbases that some of these existing IP have, along with seeing what kind of resources there are within the dev team: seeing what kind of skills the current members of Team Ninja have, and then deciding from there if that would work for a particular series. Would that work for an existing IP? Or would that be better suited to a new IP?
We’re really happy there are so many fans, and we want to make a new title for those existing series. But it’s all down to seeing if that’s a possibility and if there are skillsets there in the team to make use of that.
We’re not announcing anything, but both of those ideas sound like great plans and are both possibilities in a sense. Those are both very, very reasonable ideas for potentially a sequel in any series, not just Ninja Gaiden. But what I want to say is, if we were to theoretically work with another company on a new Ninja Gaiden title, we would need to make sure that it would be a title that the fans would really enjoy and exceed their expectations.
It’s not just a matter of, ‘hey, let’s just go do this’: all the pieces would need to fit, and it would need to be the right team… either a younger team internally or another company that would really need to fit the Ninja Gaiden pedigree.
