As has been speculated, Falcom is indeed working on a new Tokyo Xanadu title. The game doesn't have a name yet, or confirmed platforms, or a release window, but at least we know it's coming!
20.02.2024 - 00:42 / pushsquare.com
Bandai Namco has revealed that it cancelled at least five in-development games, and will change its internal development structure moving forward. Stricter rules will make it more difficult for future games to proceed past specific development milestones, as increasing costs make games even more expensive, risky propositions.
Word comes to us by way of the company's latest earnings report (thanks IGN), which reveals the body count: at least five in-development games have already been culled so far, with the company pointing to the poor performance of certain games as a contributing factor. IGN suggests one is likely Blue Protocol, an MMO published in partnership with Amazon Games, released in Japan last year but hasn't yet made its way to other territories.
The success of Tekken 8 is a silver lining, with Bandai Namco recently revealing it has sold more than two million copies so far, and they expect it to continue selling well over the next year. It certainly casts the recent news that Bandai Namco sold its share of the rights to the Elden Ring IP back to FromSoftware last year; perhaps the publisher has a cash flow problem.
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Do you think we will ever learn the identities of Bandai Namco's cancelled games? What do you think is going on over at the storied publishing house? Speculate wildly in the comments section below.
Khayl Adam is the second best video game journalist Australia has ever produced, and his ambitions of world domination have (thus far) been curbed by the twin siren songs of strategy games and CRPGs. He has always felt an affinity for the noble dachshund, the best kind of dog.
Hoping that they'll continue making platformers like Pac-Man World and Klonoa. The remakes were very promising, and I would like to see more of those titles.
You can't expect every game to bring Elden Ring money. Their mistake for hiping up the shareholders.
I hope games like Code Vein II or a Scarlet Nexus sequel weren't cut.
Recent SUCCESS? HAHAHAHA, YoY profit is down 94%! They invested in so much mobile crap and anime tie-in nonsense. It is a mess.
With AAA game costing so much we're going to lose the quirky non-mainstream games. No one will be able to afford to to take a risk on anything other than the broadest appealing, mass market game. It'll be a bland conveyor belt of incremental variations of whatever genre is currently popular.
I’m being honest, a lot of Namco’s games are kinda bad. Besides the Tekken team, they mainly pump out pretty meh anime games. Hopefully JJK was the straw that broke the arena fighter camel’s back. There’s so much potential for Namco but they’ve just been squandering it. Give us old IPs like Klonoa and Pac-Man World with new entries, stop
As has been speculated, Falcom is indeed working on a new Tokyo Xanadu title. The game doesn't have a name yet, or confirmed platforms, or a release window, but at least we know it's coming!
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