Team Ninja has reportedly confirmed plans to reboot some Ninja Gaiden and Dead oregon Alive successful the future.
That’s according to a translation of a speech the developer’s president held successful South Korea this week. According to Ruliweb, Fumihiko Yasuda said during a sheet astatine the G-Star league successful Busan that helium was moving to bring fans much quality arsenic soon arsenic possible.
A descent reportedly shown astatine the extremity of his sheet – pictured beneath – shows images of some classical Team Ninja bid on with the headline, “The aboriginal of Team Ninja – Reboot of fashionable series” successful Japanese.
VGC has contacted Team Ninja’s proprietor Koei Tecmo for remark connected this story.
Update - Koei Tecmo responds21st Nov 2022 / 10:28 am
Responding to this story, a Koei Tecmo Games spokesperson told VGC: “We person thing to denote astatine this time.”
We’ve requested further clarification and volition update this communicative again if we person it.
Yasuda has publically stated his tendency to revive the Ninja Gaiden bid aggregate times.
The Tecmo enactment escapade bid hasn’t seen a mainline instalment since 2012’s Ninja Gaiden 3. Yasuda, who is the manager of Nioh and its sequel, was a level decorator for Ninja Gaiden 2 and directed the series’ 3rd instalment – its archetypal since the departure of pb creator Tomonobu Itagaki.
In an interview with VGC that took spot successful January 2021, Yasuda told america that helium had nary plans for a caller instalment successful the Ninja Gaiden series, but stated his tendency to 1 time instrumentality to the series.
Then earlier this year, helium said that “all the pieces would request to fit” for a theoretical aboriginal Ninja Gaiden crippled to beryllium developed, and expressed willingness to perchance outsource a caller game to an outer institution oregon a younger interior team.
“We’re not announcing anything,” Yasuda said, “but some of those ideas dependable similar large plans and are some possibilities successful a sense. Those are some very, precise tenable ideas for perchance a sequel successful immoderate series, not conscionable Ninja Gaiden.
“But what I privation to accidental is, if we were to theoretically enactment with different institution connected a caller Ninja Gaiden title, we would request to marque definite that it would beryllium a rubric that the fans would truly bask and transcend their expectations.
“It’s not conscionable a substance of, ‘hey, let’s conscionable spell bash this’: each the pieces would request to fit, and it would request to beryllium the close team… either a younger squad internally oregon different institution that would truly request to acceptable the Ninja Gaiden pedigree.”