Yusuke Tomizawa, general producer of Bandai Namco Entertainment’s Tales of JRPG series, recently talked to Persona series producer Kazuhisa Wada in a roundtable interview published by Famitsu. During the discussion, Tomizawa commented on Tales’ current situation and future as an IP, addressing the long wait for a new entry.
Despite the significant legacy it has built up throughout the years, Tomizawa says one challenge the series currently faces is diminishing opportunities for players to interact with past titles and their characters, especially given that there haven’t been any live-service Tales games to keep the playerbase engaged. To address this, Tomizawa’s priority has been to make past games playable on modern platforms as much as possible through the Tales Remastered Project, which was launched in 2024. Since the response to these efforts – including the most recently announced “Tales of Eternia Remastered” – has exceeded expectations, the team intends to remain fully devoted to continuing the project.
At the same time, Tomizawa is aware that a brand-new entry that lives up to people’s expectations for the series are “absolutely essential” for the IP’s strength. “The bar has risen when it comes to the scale of development and other factors, and to be honest, we’ve kept players waiting for quite long,” he says. “While we haven’t been able to share concrete information yet, we are continuing to work on it while thinking of the series’ future.”
Tomizawa considers the foundation of the Tales series to be games and characters that players can “love for a long time,” and is determined not to compromise on that ideal. While apologizing for the long wait, the producer assured fans he does not intend to lose to rival JRPG series like Persona (meant in a light-hearted manner, of course.)
Tales of Eternia Remastered is scheduled to release on October 16, 2026 for PC (Steam), PS4/PS5, Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, and Xbox Series X❘S.
Look. All I ask is you build off the previous game.
I liked Arise but it did feel shallower than prior entries due it really kind of starting from scratch.
So now just take that and give it more depth. More enemy variety.
And please … Just pace production so there aren’t obvious cuts in the story.
How long more do they take time to just release a fucking brand new game??? 5 years??? 10 years??? 20 years??? 50 years??? It’s just a JRPG bruhhh, not GTA VI. No way they need time that long for a game that has only 2 digits of gameplay hours and map that is far less than RDR 2, Skyrim, or The Witcher 3. If all they can do are just releasing remaster again and again, the franchise deserved to be axed/stopped and the entire studio needs to be dismantled, the entire employees+leaders/producers deserved to lose their jobs
Try being an etrian odyssey fan, almost 8 years lol.
4 years in comparison doesn’t seem so bad.
I get the frustration 🫤
…then why don’t you go and create a game from scratch – plot, story line, script, coding, graphics, etc. Let’s not forget marketing and turning it into a brand known worldwide that the majority will enjoy playing.
I hope they revive tales luminaria and bring it to consoles
I really really think devs like this are under rated.
I’d love to see an article here about atlus, its obsession with smt/persona getting in the way of a game fans have been waiting for almost 8 years since the reveal trailer.
I’m talking about Etrian Odyssey. Just short of 8 years ago they revealed a few seconds long video for what everyone expected to be the first EO game on switch. Now switch 2 is out and we’ve had pretty much no news since, just “the team is delayed helping out with the new smt” which has come and gone, as has multiple persona games, a smt remake, a new ip game in refantazio, anothe remake of persona game, spin off, the list goes on.
What have Etrian odyssey fans, a group of fans who aren’t small, have a subreddit very active daily even to this day, gotten?
Nothing. We got the EO 1,2,3 HD games on switch and pc, and I think we’d be happy with a 5, 6, N HD if they must make is wait more, yet nothing…
It is the 20th year anniversary of the IP next year and frankly I’ve placed bets on us getting news in the form of a nothing burger.
I see so much marketing news for stuff, please consider making an article on EO and the long wait for us fans who seem neglected and ignored. Just like how the silksong articles were popular, it’d be nice to get some fellow gamer support because…
8 years…
There comes a point where patience has done its due diligence and is being taken advantage of.
The tales of series have always been about two things for me, the characters, and playing them with my friends. The moment they told us there would be no multiplayer in Arise, me and my friends simply didn’t buy the game, still haven’t, even if they would add official multiplayer, we’d need a massive discount to buy it now anyway (haven’t even bhought it when it have been sub 10$).
Where is love for tales of legendia?
Dear jeebus all performative thoughts get pushed away
What about Tales of Legendia??
Why does everyone disregard Tales of Legendia???
I’d like a scarlet nexus type game. I liked the combat for tales of arise. But I also liked scarlet nexus combat. Hopefully we get something similar to either of them.