Staff Ninja claims it is not from outsourcing a new Ninja Gaiden

The director and president of Group Ninja has stated that “all the parts would will need to fit” for a theoretical potential Ninja Gaiden game to be made.

As component of a for a longer time interview with VGC this thirty day period, we requested Fumihiko Yasuda if he would think about outsourcing a new Ninja Gaiden game to a further studio, or handing the IP to a younger inside staff.

“We’re not announcing anything at all,” Yasuda replied, “but both of all those ideas audio like good designs and are both of those opportunities in a feeling. Individuals are each incredibly, incredibly sensible tips for perhaps a sequel in any series, not just Ninja Gaiden.

“But what I want to say is, if we have been to theoretically do the job with an additional enterprise on a new Ninja Gaiden title, we would want to make certain that it would be a title that the enthusiasts would actually get pleasure from and exceed their expectations.

“It’s not just a matter of, ‘hey, let us just go do this’: all the pieces would will need to healthy, and it would require to be the ideal team… both a young team internally or a different business that would truly want to match the Ninja Gaiden pedigree.”

When asked how Crew Ninja manages to retain its present player base happy though however introducing new IP like Wo Very long, Yasuda added: “We’re so delighted that people are large lovers of our present sequence, and so there is that emotion of wanting to develop a new entry in individuals sequence.

“But a good deal of it is about balancing that drive to generate these new game titles for these large fanbases that some of these current IP have, along with viewing what form of resources there are within just the dev crew: looking at what sort of abilities the existing customers of Staff Ninja have, and then deciding from there if that would work for a distinct sequence.

“Would that get the job done for an current IP? Or would that be much better suited to a new IP? We’re truly delighted there are so several enthusiasts, and we want to make a new title for these existing sequence. But it is all down to looking at if that is a probability and if there are skillsets there in the workforce to make use of that.”

In an earlier job interview with VGC that took spot in January 2021, Yasuda informed us that he experienced no plans for a new instalment in the Ninja Gaiden series, but reiterated his wish to a single day return to the collection.

“[There are] no plans at present, but I have normally desired to make a new instalment in the sequence, so here’s hoping for that,” he claimed at the time.

The Tecmo action adventure collection hasn’t viewed a mainline instalment because 2012’s Ninja Gaiden 3. Yasuda, who is the director of Nioh and its sequel, was a stage designer for Ninja Gaiden 2 and directed the series’ 3rd instalment – its to start with since the departure of lead creator Tomonobu Itagaki.