Looks like the Wii will soon be saying goodbye to one of its "hardcore" franchises. In a new interview, Grasshopper CEO Goichi Suda said he wants No More Heroes to continue to grow, but that he feels it needs to go beyond Nintendo's platform to do so.
"I really want to make NMH a big franchise, and with this second episode have bigger success. I'm putting a lot of care into developing this IP, as I feel there's a lot of potential," he told Edge.

However, "I think this is the last NMH that is going to be developed on Wii."

"To expand NMH to new possibilities, we need a new platform. Wii is a great platform, but we've done everything we can with it now."

Project Natal may be one possibility for the franchise. Suda developed No More Heroes with motion control in mind, and has recently expressed excitement for Microsoft's new peripheral.

"It's hard to really understand it unless you use it, and it remains to be seen what you can do with it, but I think it'll be a huge device," he recently told Famitsu.

"We developed No More Heroes with the Wii remote in mind, but now I want to think about games with Natal in mind. I have to ask myself, as a game designer, what new games can be done with this, what can be an interesting experience and challenge, and I'm looking forward to that."

Travis Touchdown on the Xbox 360? It's starting to look like it.