Xenoblade Chronicles Maker’s New Job Profile Interests Fans About the Future

Monolith Soft, the makers of the famed Nintendo game franchise Xenoblade Chronicles are gearing up for their next project. The last thing the developer gave fans was Future Redeemed, the DLC for Xenoblade Chronicles, last year in April. Now fans have begun to speculate what’s next.

A post surfaced on X sharing news about Monolith Soft’s hiring. This news had many fans starting to wonder what the studio was up to. While most of them remained uncertain, the community is divided between new IP and Xenoblade 4.

Monolith Soft is Hiring

A post on X uploaded by Stealth has started gaining traction online. Stealth is a reliable source of information about the gaming industry and they have been a consistently reliable source for news over the years. In the post, they highlighted Monolith Soft’s requirement for a developer. They mentioned the criteria that need to be met for someone to join the Monoliths dev team.

To get into Monolith, devs need to satisfy 3 criteria:

• First, the need to have experience developing a 3D action game.
• The second requisite was having experience in working in a large team on an AAA project.
• And the third requirement was to have experience using game engines.

The post stirred up the community, with many hoping for a new Xenoblade game from the studio. While nothing is confirmed yet, fans started taking their speculations to the comments section of the post.

In a 2022 ask the developer interview with Nintendo, Tetsuya Takahashi said about the third game, “This title is the third entry in the Xenoblade Chronicles series following Xenoblade Chronicles (2) and Xenoblade Chronicles 2, and is like the culmination of the trilogy.” Later in the interview he was asked, “So, by “culmination”, you don’t mean that it brings closure to the series, but rather that it rounds out the trilogy thematically,” to which he replied, “Yes, that’s right. I guess you can say that this is like a summary for moving on to the next step in the future.” While it doesn’t confirm a 4th game, it leaves the door open for future possibilities.

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One fan shared their curiosity about where the devs will take the Xenoblade series. They mentioned how they believe the story is complete in with the trilogy and if there were to be a sequel, the devs would have to come up with more lore.

Another fan stated that the devs could be working on Xenoblade X in 4k resolutions for the rumored Switch 2.

This fan of Monolith is down for be it a new Xenoblade game or a new IP.

Yet another speculation comes in from a user who hopes to see a Xenosaga trilogy or Xenoblade X ports for other devices.

A prediction about the project in the world could be Xenoblade Chronicles X remaster was made by this user.

When it comes to Monolith Studio, fans are always ready for more Xenoblade. But we need to consider that all these speculations have started from a rumor and there might not be a new game in the works. Either way, we will leave it up to you to decide what you think is the reason for a new developer.

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