Tokyo Game Show 2010 is beginning this week in Japan, and with it comes new game announcements from Japanese developers. Kotaku reports that the new, Itagaki-less Team Ninja revealed their next titles at an event in Tokyo. Fresh off of Metroid: Other M, Team Ninja head Yosuke Hayashi announced Ninja Gaiden 3 and Ni-Oh.
Hayashi said that the Ninja Gaiden team is already hard at work on a follow-up to Ninja Gaiden II. No official name has been decided on yet, buy Hayashi showed off some concept art that looked like the Ryu Hayabusa we’ve seen in the previous titles. No release date or targeted platforms were revealed, with Hayashi promising more information sometime next year.
Team Ninja’s next cross-team collaboration was mentioned as well. The developer will be reviving a PlayStation3-exclusive title announced by Koei in 2005. Ni-Oh was originally developed internally by Koei, but Team Ninja has taken the reins and is working with Koei founder Kou Shibusawa on the project. No artwork was shown for the title.
Finally, the developer reiterated that they're working on Dead or Alive: Dimensions for Nintendo's 3DS.
2 Comments
September 15, 2010
Hopefully this time Ninja Gaiden 3 comes out on the 360 and PS3 at the same time. That way they'll both have the same content.
September 16, 2010
If I'd have to guess, now that Itagaki is gone, they'll target the Xbox 360 and PS3 at the same time, rather than waiting like they have the past two times. Of course, maybe they like launching the slightly revised Sigma games on PS3, so who knows?