New Digimon Story in Development, Remasters Teased by Habu

Bandai Namco held a Q&A with Digimon games producer Kazumasa Habu at Digicon 2022 on February 27 (26 EST), and he answered fans on remasters and remakes, and he reconfirmed a new Digimon Story is happening.

New Digimon Story game is still in development, remakes and remasters discussion

Kazumasa Habu confirmed the new Digimon Story game is currently still in development and it will focus on the Olympos XII. This new Digimon Story game will also take place inside the Digimon World, and it’s not a sequel to Cybersleuth. There are no Cybersleuth sequels planned. However, a new Cybesleuth sequel could be made if the fan demand is high enough.

This new Digimon Story game was mentioned several years ago by Habu, so it’s nice to know it’s still in development. It has no name though, and it wasn’t officially announced yet.

Furthermore, Habu also discussed several remakes and remasters, though he sadly didn’t confirm anything.

Digimon games on Wonderswan

First, Kazumasa Habu explained that while he would love to port the “Ryo Digimon Wonderswan games”, it’s currently not viable and he couldn’t convince his superiors to do it due to poor estimated sales.

A Digimon World remaster port or remake is under consideration

Kazumasa Habu explained that he is considering all these scenarios for Digimon World. But a remaster of Digimon World would be the most likely scenario. Because when it comes to making a remake, they’d need to think about what kind of elements to add to the game, and it’ll be particularly difficult because the original game is already very well balanced when it comes to the areas and Digimon.

Overall though, it’s important to note that Kazumasa Habu said the Digimon teams will focus on making new games rather than remakes and porting older ones.

The Digicon 2022 event is still ongoing a I’m writing this. You can catch the event below.