Month: July 2015

Shortly after Sony’s announcement of their PlayStation 3 in 2013, Arc System Works’ Toshimichi Mori expressed interest in developing a brand new fighting game series to coincide with the platform’s release. This, he said, would follow the company’s tradition of keeping up with updated hardware, as Guilty Gear targeted Sega’s Dreamcast and BlazBlue launched on PlayStation 3. “Creating new things at the turning point of time is who Arc System Works is,” Mori said during an interview with Dengeki Online around that time, “so we would like to take it on.”

Nothing tangible has come from these statements (at least from a consumer viewpoint), but Arc System Works president Minoru Kidooka recently reignited the discussion while speaking with Famitsu. According to him, the studio has been toying with a few ideas but has yet to land on anything concrete. “We need to establish a new fighting game that follows Guilty Gear and BlazBlue,” Kidooka is quoted as saying by Siliconera.

Though some may count the Persona 4 Arena series as the final piece in the Arc System Works trinity, it would appear they have a different view of the Atlus-owned property.

At this point in time, it’s hard to ignore the legacy Guilty Gear and BlazBlue have left behind. With brand new installments of their own on the itinerary, one can only guess how Arc System Works plans to further expand their brand in the fighting game genre. Let’s hope they keep the alliteration intact.

Source: Famitsu via Hachima Kikou, Siliconera, NeoGAF