Konami says Contra could return to 2D, but it would have to innovate

Contra: Rogue Corps is heading to Switch in just a matter of days, and it's another entry in the franchise to bring the game into 3D. Does that mean going forward, all installments are going to take the 3D route? That's not necessarily the case, says executive producer Nobuya Nakazato. Here's what he had to say about the potential for new 2D installments in an interview with DualShockers.

“Yeah, I love the old 2D games as well and I’d love to make new ones, but just modernizing the graphics, upgrading the graphics, and creating something new in them would not be the right way to do it, in my opinion. I’d have to come up with a new innovation and maybe change a bit of the genre and then I can start working on one of those.”