Leynos said:
Probably too soon for a new SC and Tales. Doubt it. Arise also not that long ago and taking longer to make new stuff. AC8 maybe. Others I'd guess some remasters. At least for Tales. Soul Cal? I dunno maybe a tweet from Namco Japan celebrating 30 years. Maybe some DLC for VI. |
Soul Calibur is the least likely of the 3, I agree. Bandai Namco didn't seem happy with the sales on SC6, only 2m in the first 2.7 years, and ended DLC support for it after just 8 characters, with quite alot of franchise characters missing.
Tales could happen, 2025 marks 4 years since Arise, and in the past they have often released Tales games with gaps between 1 and 3 years. Arise itself took 5 years, but they were rebuilding the Tales team after series producer Hideo Baba left as well as the directors on the previous games leaving, and had to learn an all new engine, Unreal 4, after dropping the old in-house PS3 engine that they had used on the PS3/PS4 cross-gen games (Zestiria and Berseria). Now that the team is built and they all have Unreal Engine experience, development on the next Tales should in theory be faster than the 5 years on Arise, so a 4 year gap makes sense.
AC8 is the most likely to happen, Bandai Namco seemed very pleased with it's sales (highest in the series), and 2025 gives them 6 years to make it.
Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 05 August 2024
