log of the bulletin board 11 years ago

When I wrote my last post, I read back the bulletin board log.
It is a log of BR series of 2channel, which is the largest anonymous bulletin board in Japan.

The one that caught my eye was the post on 19/12/2009.
The poster claimed to be "I can't tell you the details, but I was involved in the development of the BR series."
Well, it's an anonymous bulletin board, so it's quite possible that it's a lie...
The contents of the log are as follows.

It can be said that it is hopeless that a remake or new work of the BR series will be released.
The relationship between Hudson and 8ing is close to insulation, and the relationship of rights is complicated.
In the first place, Mr.Fukuya has left Hudson.

First, the prerequisite for producing BR4 was "to produce up to BR5".

This is because the story of BR4 was insufficiently explained, and the Transform system, which was clearly unadjustable compared to past works up to BREX, was planned to be completed with BR5.

Around the same time, however, a Hudson Consumer executive resigned, taking responsibility for poor game sales.
With the resignation of the officer, many games under development that were determined to be non-profitable were terminated.
One of them is the BR series.
Mr.Fukuya, who was coordinating between Hudson and 8ing, was furious at this one-sided notice and left Hudson.

I believe that the BR series was established by Mr. Fukuya's strong personality.
So, if there is a sequel now, it's probably different from BR.
Mr.Fukuya has nothing to do with BR anymore.

Even now, Mr. Fukuya's whereabouts remain unknown since the release of BR4.
Also, it was confirmed that some staff members involved in BR3 to BR4 belonged to 8ing as they were, but probably most of the staff have already left 8ing.
Although I did not investigate it directly, the NARUTO series such as GNT are handled by the same staff as the BR series, but it seems that the development of TATSUNOKO vs CAPCOM & UMVC3 after that was done by a team different from the BR series.

Well, if this anonymous post is true, it turns out that KONAMI hasn't had any interest in the BR series since making Hudson a subsidiary.
Perhaps I wasn't interested in most Hudson-produced games, not just the BR series.
Even as of 2021, Bomberman is the only Hudson-produced game released by KONAMI.
So, if you criticize the BR series for lack of movement, it may be irrelevant to appeal to KONAMI who only owns the IP, and to appeal to Hudson, which became a subsidiary of KONAMI.

Fortunately, as was in the news a while back, 8ing still seems motivated to be involved in the development of fighting games.

So, if you want a sequel or remake of the BR series, maybe appealing to 8ing is your only hope.