Dead or Alive 5 looks set to take full advantage of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360’s meaty innards.
That’s according to Team Ninja boss Yosuke Hayashi, who told VG247 that the developer wants to make the upcoming brawler a game that will only run on current-generation hardware.
“You see a lot of fighting games come out now that are really easy to pick up and play – and play online as well. Really simplistic fighting games. You just get ready and go,” he said.
“For us though, we thought ‘that’s okay,’ but we really wanted to bring a new dimension to fighting games. We wanted to evolve, and create something that really uses the current generation systems’ full potential.”
“What would a fighting game be like if you took the base of a fighting game, and upped that 100%? Used up all the machine power of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360?”
“That’s something that we wanted to do – something that you can’t really port onto a handheld, something that can only be done on these consoles.”
Dead or Alive 5 is due out in 2012. The game was announced at the Tokyo Game Show in September, and marks the first console entry in the beat-‘em-up series to be developed without the involvement of series father, Tomonobu Itagaki. It’s also the first Dead or Alive game to be released for PlayStation 3.
Stay tuned for more information on Dead or Alive 5 as it breaks.