Long running action-fighter looks likely to continue, Team Ninja's new boss Yosuke Hayashi telling site Kikizo that the IP has a future; probably on multiple platforms.

"What the gamers are looking for is going to be the next chapter - the future of an outstanding series. We feel that we're in a position of being able to make that call... That calling is already there - we feel it."

Departed chief Tomonobu Itagaki said last year that the second true sequel in the series could see the IP come to a close, but there seems to have been a change of heart at Team Ninja.

Hayashi continued: "We're going to have to push ourselves to the next level, and we are better off giving both audiences an entirely new game."

By Luke Guttridge