Reikou
Member
I read this article, and thought it may be worth posting.
http://kotaku.com/5992222/tecmo-koei-just-sliced-up-team-ninja
http://kotaku.com/5992222/tecmo-koei-just-sliced-up-team-ninja
Perhaps one team will make DOA5U/DOA6 while the other works on DOAX3, har har har.
Seriously though, I'm not really too worried about this. I don't really know what it means, but I doubt they'd randomly do something that would shit all over their two best franchises. I'm definitely looking forward to hearing more about this though.
"It is a corporate internal restructuring not a shut down. Team Ninja will still exist, sometimes It is just easier for them to split up for multiple projects. And internally, All kinds of different names are used for studios. Naughty Dog did this 2 years ago to split dev between 2 teams, The Uncharted team and alternate dev. but inside the company they have a more simple name. Team Ninja will still have their name slapped on whatever they deem a Team Ninja title. TK is just trying to spread the talent and allow input from other members. Remember in 2007 Team Ninja was only about 50 people, now it has over 100."
This is just Kotaku being Kotaku
Except for the part where everyone is still employed and they are just formally dividing into two teams. The only major change is Keisuke Kikuchi's promotion. Since they have really had teams-within-the-team going on for as long as I can remember, this isn't a big deal. Oh, and Tom Lee has already mentioned Team NINJA is still as it was, as quoted earlier in this very thread.