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Rumour: Monolith Not Working on 3DS Threequel?

Baten Kaitos and Xenoblade creator allegedly working on a 3DS RPG, which is a third entry in a series...

Here's one that's pretty hard to verify at this point, but it's too interesting to go unsaid. A seemingly faithful poster on NeoGAF has reported that the latest, hot-off-the-presses issue of Japanese magazine Nintendo Dream contains an interview with Nintendo-owned studio Monolith Soft, where the developer confirms that it is working on a new RPG for 3DS. We say new - the game is supposedly the third entry in an established series.

Monolith Soft should be solidly relevant in the minds of Nintendo fans - the studio's latest masterpiece, Xenoblade Chronicles, released in Europe just last week.

If the 3DS title is indeed the third entry in a series, there are actually couple of possibilities. Monolith has created two Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier games for Nintendo DS; the first never came to Europe, the second never left Japan. But the Gamecube's Baten Kaitos series also comes to mind - Monolith more famously developed those two card-based RPGs to critical acclaim.

We already know that Monolith is working on a Wii U RPG. The studio has been expanding rapidly lately, and has had the capacity to split into at least two development teams for some time, so hopefully it won't be too long before we see what the first-party developer has been cooking up.

Update: Now a conflicting account has come forward and stated that the newest edition of Nintendo Dream actually does not contain any mention of Monolith Soft. While it's more than likely that the developer will work on 3DS down the line, it seems this particular case was made up earlier this week. This is why we can't have nice things.

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Matias Says:
August 28th, 2011 at 02:03 || Total Comments: 67

It will either be a remake of Xenosaga which had 3 titles on the PS3 or a 3rd Baiten Kaitos title. Either way sounds good to me! Bring it on!!

CSP Says:
August 28th, 2011 at 09:07 || Total Comments: 1046

xenosaga is owned by Namco-Bandai and even if they did state they wanted to continue the franchise, they either need to find a new team to work on it, or contact Nintendo and Monolith (which probably means they need to rerelase all 3 on a Nintendo platform) and the chances of the latter are quite slim so Baten Kaitos 3 it is. Since the 2nd one never made it here and taking into account Reggie's reluctance to publish stuff over there, I guess this could also only make it to Europe to balance things up :p But I have another question. Such an acclaimed developer on the RPG department, WHY ON EARTH did they even bother making Disaster? It's like telling the animal crossing team to make a gears of war clone...

Matias Says:
August 28th, 2011 at 12:23 || Total Comments: 67

No idea. It is weird. I think Nintendo wanted them to make a mature title and that's the best they could do. I think Xenosaga 1 and 2 were in the DS?

Matias Says:
August 28th, 2011 at 12:25 || Total Comments: 67

Oh and also Nintendo own about 80% of Monolith and part of it is owned by Namco Bandai so it's not out of the question that they could be making another Xenosaga title.

Matias Says:
August 28th, 2011 at 12:26 || Total Comments: 67

But then again the rumor has been squashed. LOL!

Darkflame Says:
August 28th, 2011 at 18:35 || Total Comments: 1757

" Such an acclaimed developer on the RPG department, WHY ON EARTH did they even bother making Disaster?" Skill diversity, and lower budget probably paid a factor. You stick to the same genre too much you stagnant. Probably why they got Retro to do DKCR too. Disaster is still not a bad game. Its merely "ok".

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