Sony XDev is working with Team Ninja on Rise of the Ronin
Sony Interactive Entertainment’s XDev studio has confirmed it’s collaborating with Team Ninja on Rise of the Ronin.
Announced last week, the action RPG will be released as a PS5 console exclusive in 2024.
Team Ninja president and game director Fumihiko Yasuda has said the game is “undoubtedly the most ambitious and challenging project” the Japanese studio has undertaken, which may go some way to explaining Sony’s involvement.
Sony XDev works with external studios across the globe, providing production, management, design and publishing support, among other services.
Yasuda told the PlayStation Blog last week that Sony has been supporting Team Ninja since it started work on the project seven years ago.
And senior XDev producer Jason Stewart tweeted on Monday: “Privileged to work on an exciting title as Rise of the Ronin with Yasuda-san of Team Ninja Studio, [Team Ninja game producer] Masaaki Yamagiwa, and our Sony XDev JP team.
“Only right to visit the Meiji Jingu Shrine. Birth of the Charter Oath in Five Articles and end of Feudal Shogunate Japan.”
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Prior to its closure last year, Sony’s Japan Studio was largely responsible for collaborating on the company’s domestic external projects, a role which is seemingly now being handled by an XDev Japan team.
Liverpool, UK-based XDev has previously helped to create and publish externally developed titles in Europe including LittleBigPlanet 1-3, Sackboy: A Big Adventure, Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls, Tearaway and Returnal.
Rise of the Ronin is described as a “combat focused open-world action RPG” that takes place in Japan during the end of the 300-year long Edo period, commonly known as
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