Cave announced a new shoot-’em-up arcade title—DoDonPachi Dai Fukkatsu—at this year’s AOU show in Japan just a few weeks ago. At the time, the announcement rekindled my desire to see these great niche titles find new life and popularity on the current generation of consoles. News out of Japan seems to indicate that hope for such things may not be lost.

Famitsu and Souta House (a retailer blog), via Insert Credit, are reporting that ports of two Cave shooters—Ketsui and DoDonPachi Dai Ou Jou Black Label—are coming to the Xbox 360. Release is set for this year, but there is no mention of any further details other than that the ports are being handled by 5pb. Souta House is a retailer blog, which would seem to imply that these will be retail releases.

Perhaps the chances of these making North America are slim at retail, but the opportunity seems ripe for them to follow in Ikaruga’s footsteps and appear as downloadable titles. The logistics of such a thing may be far more complicated than it seems, but with Cave titles appearing on Xbox 360 and Treasure still in development on a brand new shooter for the console—shmups may have found a home, for now.

Source: insertcredit.com

Tags: downloadable_titles, famitsu, Japan, ports, shmups, shoot-em-ups, shooters, xbox_360

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