Fumihiko Yasuda, director on Rise of the Ronin, is paying shut consideration to extra platfroms that he can launch his video games on. Talking to RPG Website, Yasuda famous that the Nintendo Change has a “vital quantity” of gamers in Japan. To that finish, he has mentioned that he’s paying shut consideration to how the Nintendo Change 2 will change issues.
“By way of consoles, there was a long-standing scenario in Japan the place there’s a vital variety of Change gamers, and I’m carefully watching how it will change with the discharge of Change 2,” mentioned Yasuda.
He additionally famous that the video games he has labored on with Koei Tecmo are inclined to have a giant viewers on the PS5. In newer occasions, nonetheless, Japan has seen fairly an increase in PC players as properly.
“For video games like those we create, there are lots of PS5 gamers, however I additionally really feel that the variety of PC gamers has considerably elevated in Japan over the previous few years,” he mentioned.
After having initially been launched on the PS5 again in 2024, Rise of the Ronin got here to PC earlier this week. The PC model of the sport noticed a number of enhancements over its PS5 predecessor, together with assist for PC-specific options like ultrawide show, and better resolutions and body charges. Nevertheless, as we famous in our evaluate, the port didn’t really feel prefer it was all the best way there. Try our PC evaluate of Rise of the Ronin for extra particulars.
Whereas even its PS5 launch may very well be thought-about middling when it got here to essential reception, Koei Tecmo had revealed again in June 2024 that its gross sales had already surpassed the Nioh franchise. Yasuda referred to Rise of the Ronin on the time as “the best-selling Koei Tecmo title to this point.”
Earlier than the unique launch of Rise of the Ronin, Yasuda had credited Sucker Punch’s Ghost of Tsushima with inspiring Group Ninja and Koei Tecmo to make the sport. Whereas Rise of the Ronin was going to be the studio’s first open world recreation, Ghost of Tsushima was one of many factors of reference throughout growth.
“Rise of the Ronin is our first open world recreation, and Ghost of Tsushima was one of many video games we used as reference, and I personally loved it,” Yasuda mentioned. “I felt impressed by the truth that a recreation set in Japan had been researched to such an extent by the builders, and had additionally acquired excessive reward for points reminiscent of its fight system. On the identical time, I puzzled why we couldn’t launch a recreation like Ghost of Tsushima again then. Ghost of Tsushima served nearly as good encouragement for creating Rise of the Ronin.”
Rise of the Ronin is out there on PC and PS5. Try our evaluate of the unique launch for extra particulars. If you happen to’re desirous about enjoying it on the PC, you possibly can take a look at the {hardware} necessities to run Rise of the Ronin. Within the meantime, take a look at our ideas on the Ghost of Tsushima vs. Rise of the Ronin debate.
