We all know our friends in Japan get all the fun games - especially when it comes to its thriving arcade industry - so we're more than a little jealous to learn SEGA will be releasing a brand new House Of The Dead game - subtitled Scarlet Dawn - in 2018.
Noticed by twitter user @kingmonkey25, the post on the Japanese HOTD site confirms the game will be arriving this year and will likely launch in Tokyo's world famous Akinabara arcade district. It will also be getting its own deluxe, sit-in cabinet so you can really immerse yourself in all that light-gun-related gore. It'll be first new HOTDA title to hit arcades in quite some time, but we wouldn't hold our breaths for a Scarlet Dawn port on Switch anytime soon - the last entry to grace a Nintendo platform was House Of The Dead: Overkill in 2009.
Are you a fan of arcade shooters? Ever lost a whole evening and a lot of change to a House Of The Dead cab? We know we have...
[source hod.sega.jp]
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Looks interesting! I like arcade shooters. It would be nice e if we got this later on.
I really enjoy this on rails shooter series, would love a Switch version
Man.
Reading this makes me wish they would remake House of the Dead Overkill for Switch.
Pushed a lot of coins into Time Crisis back in the 90's. Remember playing it so much I got back strain. Must of been that uber realistic recoil.
Cool. I generally really like the HotD games.
Boo! You got me all excited there thinking house of the dead to switch.
YAAAASSS!! I hope ROUND1 JP gets this, and that way we'll have a chance to get it in the US!
It looks like the location test seems to be happening next weekend. Nice cabinet, BTW.
And who's that Tyler-looking dude as P1? Maybe it's James' son? (James from HotD 2&4)
Checking out the Japanese site, it looks like it'll be using assault rifles, like Operation G.H.O.S.T. and Ghost Squad. Rescues are back. And what the- one of the pictures shows Chariot is back!! (the 1st boss from the 1st game) And he looks awesome! I can't wait to play this!
Ok so if this won't come to switch any time Soon, why not a port of overkill for the Switch? Seems it would be fun with joy con motion controls
Would love this (and the other HOTD) on Switch.
I actually love arcade shooters! That is why I also really liked the Wii pointer and bought a Dreamcast pistol at the time... When I was 15, I worked on a fair with my parents exposing. A stand next to ours had some arcade machines and among them a HOTD 2 arcade, you could just play without paying... I spent a lot of time there, especially when there were no people. Sometimes I played with others and sometimes I was alone playing with both guns for player 1 and 2. That is actually a great memory
I would also really like to play a new HOTD game, but I'm not sure the switch is suited for that, maybe with motion controls in handheld mode and a Joycon-Gun when playing on TV.
If theres a lighthun compatible to it: bring it on! But without a lighthun its absolutely nonsense.
Yay, bring on the HOD games to the Nintendo Switch!
SEEEEEGAAAAA! (again).
Dogs of the A.M.S.
Time they made a
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Can't see how they would make a light gun game work in portable mode, so not sure I can see this (or any other similar games) coming to Switch.
I'd play it at the arcade if I saw it though.
"It'll be first new HOTDA title to hit arcades in quite some time, but we wouldn't hold our breaths for a Scarlet Dawn port on Switch anytime soon - the last entry to grace a Nintendo platform was House Of The Dead: Overkill in 2009."
This suggests that it won't come to Switch as they haven't released a HotD game on a Nintendo machine since 2009, but that was the last game released in the series.
The Switch is perfect for these kind of games. Maybe there's no plans for a port now, but hopefully if it proves popular in the arcades Sega will bring it to consoles not too long after.
I wonder what would happen if they ever ported Typing of the Dead to the Switch?
C'mon Sega you had some tremendous amount of IPs, we need games like his for Switch, not another Sonic title. If this ever came out for Switch with HD rumble support I would buy it immediately just like I did House of the Dead 2 & 3 and Overkill for Wii.
Of course its not coming anytime soon, they WANT YOU to go to the arcade and spend money on that as much as you can.
Now if you excuse me, we're meeting G over...there.
Nice, i love the HotD series.
Maybe they should release a collection of 1-4 before they port the new one to home consoles.
I still need to get Hotd overkill haha
@Angelic_Lapras_King I've already taken care of G. This is only the beginning.
I love THOTD ... I never finished 4 ... Put so much £s into 1,2 and 3 and then got them on Wii with overkill which was great!... Get this on Switch!
Is that a walk-in cabinet I see?!
@masterLEON My.God.
OMG!!! I would take ANY house of the dead game on ANY current gen console yesterday!!! Cmon Sega what the hell are you doing with all those classics!!!!! Answer: NOTHING!!
@BionicDodo most light gun games usually offered a regular controller option. I played HOTD 3&4 on PS3 that way....wasn’t bad.
lol you lose a lot more than change in Japanese arcades! As someone who visits them a couple times a year, I can tell you that! Many of the games cost 100-200 yen a play, which is about just shy of 1-2 dollars, and in terms of spending power in Japan, is about that much.
Im happy to see this ! Arcades are my childhood ~
Plus this series has always been pretty great.
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