Team Ninja says it isn’t against outsourcing a new Ninja Gaiden
The director and president of Team Ninja has said that “all the pieces would need to fit” for a theoretical future Ninja Gaiden game to be developed.
As part of a longer interview with VGC this month, we asked Fumihiko Yasuda if he would consider outsourcing a new Ninja Gaiden game to another studio, or handing the IP to a younger internal team.
“We’re not announcing anything,” Yasuda replied, “but both of those ideas sound like great plans and are both possibilities in a sense. Those are both very, very reasonable ideas for potentially a sequel in any series, not just Ninja Gaiden.
“But what I want to say is, if we were to theoretically work with another company on a new Ninja Gaiden title, we would need to make sure that it would be a title that the fans would really enjoy and exceed their expectations.
“It’s not just a matter of, ‘hey, let’s just go do this’: all the pieces would need to fit, and it would need to be the right team… either a younger team internally or another company that would really need to fit the Ninja Gaiden pedigree.”
When asked how Team Ninja manages to keep its existing player base happy while still introducing new IP like Wo Long, Yasuda added: “We’re so happy that people are big fans of our existing series, and so there is that feeling of wanting to create a new entry in those series.
“But a lot of it is about balancing that desire to create these new games for these big fanbases that some of these existing IP have, along with seeing what kind of resources there are within the dev team: seeing what kind of skills the current members of Team Ninja have, and then deciding from there if that would work for a particular series.
“Would that work for an existing IP? Or would that be better suited to a new
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