patapi wrote:Beginning V's production simultaneously with IV? That might actually hold some degree of truth, as there are rumours that Konami now have two teams working on the series anyhow.
But before IV? That is absurd. If this interpreation is true, then who knows which number would they start working on after V. Suikoden XX, maybe? You see, everything between V and XX should obviously be rushed fillers to "hold us over", which would probably showcase the producer's dream worlds or whatever, before finally giving us the "real thing" in XX.
If this is how they work, then I fear how many more numbered installments would go to waste to "fill in" the long development time between "real" installments. Shouldn't Konami have known that's what spin-off titles are meant for? Simply absurd.
I dont think you need to worry about that patapi, I think konami was using 4 as an experiment just to see how the fans would react to new ideas and they were experimenting with it, I believe 4 was meant to hold us over until 5 was released. I think they had 5's story and the basic vision for 5 while 4 was being made, this way they could take the good and bad of 4 so they could make five an awsome experience. Perhaps they feel that the last suikoden on the ps2 needs to be spectacular, and thats why they've been working on 5 for a long time. I dont think konami would make genso suikoden titles the same as fillers, that would be very foolish on there part