Samurai Shodown director explains why it's the right time for the series to return (plus more footage and screens)

Samurai Shodown was announced for Switch earlier today, and it's due out June 2019. It's been quite some time since we've seen a new installment in this series, so why was now the right time? Director Nobuyuki Kuroki explains in a Gematsu interview.

“There are various reasons, one being that when I was at SNK back in the day, I always wanted to work on Samurai Shodown more and more. I did a little bit of work on the Samurai Shodown 64 series. But there’s also just the fact that there has been a major focus on eSports recently, and I feel like this game in particular is very unique and will stand out on the eSports scene. And in general it’s just an iconic series for SNK, and we’ve had a lot of fan requests from the community to bring it back.”