DOA4, Code Cronus on Xbox 360

By Tom Bramwell Published 4 May, 2005

Team Ninja talks DOA4 and Code Cronus for next-gen. Also, Ninja Gaiden Perfect Edition?

Development of Dead or Alive 4 for Xbox 360 is taking up "90 per cent" of Team Ninja's time at the moment, according to Tomonobu Itagaki, one of the Xbox dynasty's fiercest proponents and "leader" of Tecmo's Team Ninja.

Speaking in the pages of Famitsu Xbox recently, Itagaki-san also said that Dead or Alive Code Cronus, one of his pet-projects about which relatively little is known, will now likely end up on Xbox 360 as well. Informed speculation points to an action-RPG of some sort.

Back on the subject of Dead or Alive 4 though, Itagaki-san says he has the content "completely finalised" in his head. "Originally, I thought up 300 ideas, and now it's reached the point of being narrowed down to maybe 30," he said. He even joked that some of the rejected ideas were "probably impossible even on next generation hardware".

Team Ninja, whose output since the first Xbox launched has been some of the most popular in Japan where the system has otherwise floundered, also has one last Xbox release in mind. Dubbed "Ninja Gaiden Perfect Edition" or "Ninja Gaiden Hurricane Pack Series", it's a package that will see Ninja Gaiden re-mastered to include content released via Xbox Live.

Details of all of these projects are now expected to turn up at E3 this month.

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Comments (9) Latest comment 7 years ago

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  • IronGiant #1 7 years ago

    A new Ninja Gaiden would be great, another DOA i'm not so bothered about.

  • onyxbox #2 7 years ago

    Ninja Gaiden was fantastic (if not 'the' best XBox game) but this 'Perfect edition' just sounds like a bit of a re-hash.

  • IronGiant #3 7 years ago

    I'm intruiged to see what new ideas they can bring to fighters, i know the graphics on this one will be amazing for sure but the last fighting games i bought were Soul Calibur and Tekken3!!

  • Bitkari #4 7 years ago

    clearly the other 10% is being taken up by working on well-timed marketing missives for Microsoft.

  • Pike #5 7 years ago

    Informed speculation points to an action-RPG of some sort.

    Considering how the story in Ninja Gaiden was complete and utter wank I must say this sounds pretty unexciting.

    However if they teamed up with Bioware for Jade Empire 2 it would be something of a dream come trough.

    Just imagine Bioware story and characters and Ninja Gaiden combat.

  • jlaakso #6 7 years ago

    There was a story in Ninja Gaiden?

    No, really, Team Ninja should not do anything that's got anything to do with something that's not ninjas fighting each other.

    Considering that I don't have Live and that Live won't be around forever, it makes good sense, to me, to re-release Ninja Gaiden with the Live bonus content included.
    Edited by 1 at 04/05/05 @ 11:58

  • aabyssx #7 7 years ago

    > Ninja Gaiden re-mastered to include content released via Xbox Live

    Oh! I would buy that! I don't have live ('cause I don't care about online games).
    But don't rip the head cuts out of the PAL version!

  • Feanor #8 7 years ago

    I'd buy the revised Ninja Gaiden if it had a save system that didn't make you re-do parts of levels over and over if you get killed by a boss. Maybe Itagaki played Devil May Cry 3 (with its handy yellow orbs) and can take a hint.

  • Dizzy #9 7 years ago

    >Oh! I would buy that! I don't have live ('cause I don't care about online games).

    So you are going to spend 50 Euro on content that you could have got for 50 Euro Live subscription? Live is not only about online games obviously ;)