Team Ninja Planning to Reboot Popular Franchises Like Ninja Gaiden & Dead or Alive
Team Ninja president Fumihiko Yasuda spoke at a panel at the G-Star Conference 2022, the B2B part of the Korean gaming event G-Star in Busan.
As reported by the local websiteRuliweb, Yasuda-san talked about the company’s business, policies, and philosophy.
Interestingly, he also provided a quick look at Team Ninja’s future plans. Among taking on new challenges, Yasuda-san also mentioned the plan of rebooting popular franchises using the studio’s current know-how.
On the slide showcased for that point, there were two franchises that are indeed well-loved by their fans, Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive.
Since this was a B2B presentation talking about plans, this likely shouldn’t be considered an official announcement, but as a tease, it certainly feels intriguing.
This is not the first time Yasuda-san brings up Ninja Gaiden, and he told me heindeed wants to make a new game for the franchisewhen I recently interviewed him at Tokyo Game Show.
Dead or Alive is perhaps more surprising, considering that the latest mainline game of the series,Dead or Alive 6was a very competent fighting game, but it wasn’t very successful at least in part to mixed pre-launch messaging that likely alienated some of the series long-time fans and failed to attract new ones.
That being said, the free-to-play spin-offDead or Alive Xtreme Venus Vacationis still going strong and it’s currently celebrating the 5th anniversary of its launch.
Currently, Team Ninja is working on two new IPs, Wo Long: Fallen Destiny and Rise of the Ronin.
