The Nier series will continue says its producer, but don’t expect a new game anytime soon

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It’s potentially good news forNierfans, as series producer Yosuke Saito has hinted that the series will continue. Eventually.

There hasn’t been a new entry in the series since 2021’sNier Replicant,a remake of the original 2010 game. However, Saito and series director Yoko Taro recently held a presentation at the South Korean G-Star conference to talk about the surprise impact of 2017’sNier Automataand gave some hints as to where the series goes from here on out.

Brought to light by Twitter userGenki_JPN, via reporting from Japanese site4Gamer,  Saito states towards the end of the presentation that theNierseries would continue so long as its director, Yoko Taro, “was alive.”

There was nothing in terms of a hard confirmation, but Saito adds that he is working with Taro on a new project that he hopes will be revealed next year. This could be a newNiertitle or an entirely fresh IP; we’ll just have to wait and see.

Taro also took the opportunity to speak at the presentation.Nier Automatais notable for its darker themes and subject matter, but the director claims he intended the game to have a “weird story” rather than a dark one. In the end, I’d say both were accomplished withAutomata, offering something dark and memorable but also undeniably strange.

Taro also says that his job as a director “is to design for ‘the meaning of buying,’ rather than ‘interest.'” He states that games should have appeal beyond being simply ‘fun,’ with elements such as art and music, adding thatNier Automata"was created with the aim of creating a product that players would want to talk about with others and that would remain in their memory."

While we don’t know what the future has in store for theNierseries, there’s clearly appetite for a new entry. Based on Saito’s comments from the presentation, it seems like this will be a case of ‘when’ rather than ‘if.’

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