During a recent interview with Play Community, Capcom’s Hideaki Itsuno (past director of the Rival School series and, more recently, Dragon’s Dogma) was asked how he planned to follow up his hit fantasy title as the market moved to next-generation platforms. While discussing this, he also touched on other games he had an interest in making, which include another installment in the Rival Schools series as well as a new genre of fighting games “that captures authentic fighting,” citing Street Fighter II as an inspiration for the latter.

It was around this same time last year that Itsuno mentioned having a new Rival Schools title on his agenda during an interview with Anime News Network.

While this isn’t the first time a Capcom employee has name dropped the classic fighting game series, similar titles have been trotted out and seemingly abandoned before (Darkstalkers, anyone?). Itsuno could merely be naming off dream games he would like to put time into, so definitely take this with a grain of salt.

For now, feel free to let us know in the comments what your take on this news is. Would you like to see a new Rival Schools title, or should Capcom focus on a fresh IP for the upcoming consoles?

Sources: Play Community via Dualshockers and NeoGAF