Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive could potentially be receiving reboots

It sounds like both Alive or dead and the Gaiden Ninja The series are on their way to receiving their respective reboots.

We haven’t had a new entry in either series for several years, but according to a recent report from ruliweb (Thank you, CVG), which could soon change. The report shared that ninja team President Fumihiko Yasuda spoke during a panel at the G-Star conference in Busan, where he said he was working to bring news to fans as soon as possible.

Interestingly, a slide at the bottom of the panel showed a couple of images showing Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive along with the caption “The Future of Team Ninja: Popular Series Reboot”, in Japanese. Obviously, this doesn’t completely confirm that new games are coming around the corner, but it does suggest that we can expect something in the future.

Dead or Alive’s last entry wasn’t too long ago, most recently in 2019 with Dead or Alive 6, although it did have the ridiculous problem of charging up to £74 for just one of its season passes. Which to be clear contained two characters and some costumes. Yikes doesn’t even begin to describe it.

Ninja Gaiden, on the other hand, hasn’t had a mainline entry since Ninja Gaiden 3 in 2012. A remastered collection of the three main titles was released last year, but that’s all we’ve had from the series in about a decade. other than a derivative game.

Earlier this year, Yasuda spoke with CVG about the Ninja Gaiden series, noting that Team Ninja was not against the idea of ​​outsourcing development of a new game to another studio.

While Team Ninja hasn’t worked on a new Dead or Alive or Ninja Gaiden game in a few years, that doesn’t mean the studio hasn’t been busy. Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty isn’t too far off now, and Rise of the Ronin was announced back in September as a PS5 console exclusive.