“It’s been ten years since the Shining series was re-invented,” Sawada said. “Currently, we’re preparing a title that sums up the whole series and should provide an answer to users’ curiosity. We redeveloped and resurrected the name as Sega shifted from hardware to software, and the goal for the games I’ve worked on is to target a large swath of the userbase and do something that hasn’t been done before with the series. That’s still the direction I take today.

“I can’t give details yet, but I’d like to reveal it before we go too far into the future. Shining is a long-running series, but development work largely stopped on it for a period of time.