Been skimming through the whole financial report myself, and while I'm glad Digimon Survive got mentioned as a thing that still exists, I'm more curious about Toei's plans moving forward after I saw their blurb on becoming a "title-orientated organization" that will "increase new titles and make title lifecycles longer."
I can guess on what that translates to, but then that page mentions plans to "enter into the Hollywood business."
My immediate take, as far as Digimon goes? We're probably going to see Digimon shows continue, but with more episodes planned to air than the standard 50-ish episode run (kinda like what we're seeing with Digimon Adventure: and its slated 66 episode run) for the sake of maintaining engagement as long as possible.*
Also, probably more Digimon movies within the next several years similar to Last Evolution Kizuna or, barring that, new Digimon movies that exist on their own as a movie IP. Again, just my take on what little information is there on that financial report.
*So long as the show doesn't tank so hard as to get cancelled and have a rushed ending. It happens.
I had a similar reading on the longer lifecycles bit. With Kitaro and DB Super getting movies, the two previous holders of the current timeslot of Adventure:, I've been wondering if that means Adventure: goes on for longer than one would usually expect. No way of knowing now, but I think it's possible we see the series go past 66 episodes. After all, 66 was just the number Toei Animation Europe used to promote the series for licensing on their website, I doubt it's a concrete order of episodes from Toei in the first place. Then again, I should probably save this for after we get close to Episode 66 airing lol.
At this point, I'm kind of starting to resent Survive. The Digimon World formula is my favorite, but it was confirmed when Survive was announced that they planned to return to the Story for the next game after it, meaning I have to wait for both Survive and the next Story game at least before I can get another World game. I'm also just not a fan of strategy survival games.
That being said, my fiance will most definitely hw getting it, so I can play his copy to see of I like it.
The developers behind Survive, the next Story game (as well as both Cyber Sleuth games), and Next Order are all completely different studios. Survive isn't holding any Digimon games back, and the reason World was put on the back-burner was due to sales. For the record, the re

igitize and Decode developers were also a separate studio, even from the Next Order studio, so there really isn't any reason besides a business one for Bandai Namco to not hire a studio to work on a new World game. I'm sure they'll make another one eventually.