The reveal of Ninja Gaiden 4 eventually week’s Xbox Developer Direct was one of many present’s highlights. Not solely did the announcement unveil an surprising collaboration between unique collection developer, Group Ninja, and the spectacle fighter masters at PlatinumGames, Xbox sweetened the cope with a shadow drop of a contemporary remaster of Ninja Gaiden 2.
To carry collectively two storied groups from two completely different sides of the motion sport style, nonetheless, wasn’t straightforward, but it surely was Xbox boss Phil Spencer who made it occur.
Tea Ninja producer, Fumihiko Yasuda, revealed in a brand new Sport Watch [Japanese] (through VGC) interview that the studio had been attempting to provide you with a plan to carry again Ninja Gaiden in a giant means and create a brand new sport within the collection, however couldn’t fairly determine all the small print.
It wasn’t till assembly with Phil Spencer that concepts started percolating. The veteran video games govt was the one to counsel bringing three entities collectively for the following numbered Ninja Gaiden: Group Ninja, Koei Tecmo, and PlatinumGames.
Previous to that, Koei Tecmo president Hisashi Koinuma, and PlatinumGames president Atsushi Inaba toyed round with the thought of a doable collaboration, but it surely was finally Spencer who introduced all of it collectively.
“We now have developed motion video games ourselves, however as we had been about to launch Ninja Gaiden for the primary time in over a decade, PlatinumGames has beforehand created quite a lot of improbable motion titles, akin to Bayonetta, and NieR: Automata, so we had been eager to work with them, and that is how we started our collaboration,” Yasuda added (machine translated).
PlatinumGames has a historical past of delivering stellar titles constructed on different studios’ franchises. Metallic Gear Rising: Revengeance, in addition to NieR: Automata are two nice examples of that, so there’s quite a lot of hope for Ninja Gaiden 4 to hitch the record of all-time nice motion video games – and that reveal actually struck a couple of proper cords.
Ninja Gaiden 4 arrives this fall on PC, PS5, and Xbox Collection X/S.
