{"id":52898,"date":"2021-01-21T16:23:45","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T16:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeek.games\/?p=52898"},"modified":"2021-01-21T20:10:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T20:10:23","slug":"team-ninja-no-plans-for-nioh-3-prepare-for-ninja-gaidens-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeek.games\/2021\/01\/21\/team-ninja-no-plans-for-nioh-3-prepare-for-ninja-gaidens-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Ninja: No Plans For Nioh 3, Prepare For Ninja Gaiden’s Return"},"content":{"rendered":"
Fumihiko Yasuda, the series director of Nioh, revealed more of Team Ninja<\/strong><\/em>‘s plans in an interview with The Gamer<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n \u201eIn terms of a sequel right now, [Nioh series developer] Team Ninja would like to focus on working on new titles, so there isn\u2019t a plan for Nioh 3<\/strong><\/em> at this point, but after creating some new projects and gaining some new experience and skills from those new potential projects, I would like to go back to the series at some point, utilize all the experience and new skills that we gain from some new projects, and then potentially, go back into the series at that point, and create an even greater game to surpass Nioh and Nioh 2 and to create something even better,\u201d Yasuda said about the possibility of a Nioh 3.<\/p>\n He told VGC<\/a><\/span> that they don’t plan to bring the series to Xbox: \u201eThere are no current plans for the Nioh series to be on Xbox consoles at this point,\u00a0 but of course the Ninja Gaiden series has had a long history on Microsoft\u2019s consoles. So if there was to be a new title in the Ninja Gaiden series in the future, we\u2019d like that to be on Xbox consoles.\u201d Then again, Sony Interactive Entertainment is the publisher of the Nioh series in North America and Europe, plus it handled QA testing, worldwide localization, and marketing.<\/p>\n What about Ninja Gaiden<\/strong><\/em>? \u201eNothing to announce or note specifically this time, but if the Ninja Gaiden series hadn\u2019t existed, then there wouldn\u2019t have been a Nioh series, so that\u2019s a really important series to Team Ninja. While we don\u2019t have anything specific to announce at this time, I would like to say just look forward to some potential news for some kind of announcement shortly,\u201d told The Gamer, adding that Ryu Hayabusa, the protagonist of the series, is important for Team Ninja: \u201eYeah, so that character is the most important character from all of our franchises, so, considering he\u2019s so important, I would like to have him make an appearance again in a game coming soon, and I would like to announce details about that in the future, as soon as possible.\u201d In September, we wrote about how a Hong Kong distributor, Game Source Entertainment, listed and removed a Ninja Gaiden Trilogy for PlayStation 4<\/strong><\/em> and Switch, containing Ninja Gaiden Sigma, Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, and Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor\u2019s Edge.<\/p>\n Yasuda added that he appreciates the SSD and the reduced loading times in the next-gen consoles, adding what he would create on them: \u201eI would like to try and take on an open-world style game in the future, so that\u2019s something that I think this new hardware will give us the ability to try out.\u201d He explained it in a bit more detail to VGC: \u201eTeam Ninja as a whole would specifically like to take on the open-world genre. But we feel at this point that there haven\u2019t been open-world games with a lot of intensity, which are action-packed from beginning to end. So we\u2019d like to 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.\u201d<\/p>\n An open-world Ninja Gaiden 4 or Nioh 3 would be interesting.<\/p>\n