You may not have realised it but Game Informer is thankfully back and has published an exclusive interview with SEGA‘s content production department, Kagasei Shimomura, to chat all about the resurrection of the classic Shinobi franchise. Shimomura says that obviously internally the hopes are that the soon-to-be-released Shinobi: Art of Vengeance proves to be a hit both critically and financially. If this turns out to be the case then SEGA plans to fully revive the dormant series. Here’s what Mr. Shimomura told Game Informer:
“Sega isn’t viewing this as a one-off revival. If successful, the Shinobi franchise could experience a sustained revival that sees it retake a place of prominence among Sega IPs. “Most important for us is to create games, of course,” Shimomura says. “That being said, we do feel strongly about growing IPs and nurturing our IPs. So, the game release comes first, but we have also put out a release before about certain video content, but there are so many things that could happen in the future. Nothing is set in stone, of course, but there could be maybe comics or goods […] We do think that IPs are supposed to evolve and expand, and we really do feel very strongly about our Shinobi IP and want to take care of it and nurture it. Maybe there might be a Vengeance 2 somewhere along the road. This is obviously nothing that’s planned right now, but it really depends on how we can nurture the IP in the future and how the IP is going to grow, but we definitely do want to grow it.”
