When asked about the possibility of a seventh mainline game, Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy producer Kenichi Hashimoto stated that it would be difficult to make a game that could appeal to both fans and new players, but believed it was essential for it to retain the same kind of story, characters, puzzles, and pacing that made up the "indispensable" elements of the series. Separately, series producer Motohide Eshiro expressed a desire to include Franziska von Karma in a seventh game after being largely absent outside of the Ace Attorney Investigations games.