Machine translated: "As I face my daily challenges, May ends without a sound, so I report my survival. Although we have some news that is difficult to share, such as the passing of Inomata-sensei and the end of The Rays, the development team is working very hard every day toward the future."

I mean I get it. Traditionally they don't announce games at TalesFes, supposedly because it's supposed to be a celebration of the series to date. That's the explanation they've given.

(That said they did announce the Arise DLC there so like...)

I don't know man I'm glad they're working on something and 30th anniversary is next year, but it does also feel like you'd want to say something when all your mobile games are shutting down and there hasn't been a new title in years.

I'm of two minds about this, yeah.

On the one hand, I suspect Bandai-Namco's largely started to get in a habit of late-announcing its releases, and this may be as much as Tomizawa's allowed to say, a simple "we're working, we're not dead"

on the other hand, as you said, given everything going down, all the mobile games shuttering, latest release was an epilogue DLC for Arise?

Perhaps something more needs to be said to at least allay the concerns of the fanbase.

...oh right Summer Games Fest is this friday, I hear, that may be where announcements could be, just remembered that myself.

Okay specifically what had people freaked out is previous TalesFes have had a segment called Latest Info Corner where they would talk about upcoming stuff in the phone games, merch, etc. that was just straight up cut from this year’s lineup.

That said at the end of the Festival they did announce the dates for 2025 so.