With some people worried that Dark Souls III might end up being the final game in the series, a trilogy finisher if you will, series director and From Software chief Hidetaka Miyazaki has moved to clarify the situation.
"First of all, this is not the final product for the Dark Souls series," Miyazaki said in a roundtable interview (and as reported by Eurogamer.
"However, I believe it's the turning point for the Dark Souls series. First of all, Dark Souls has a really unique worldview. It's not a good idea, continuously releasing titles for this series because of that factor. And this will probably be the turning point of From Software as a whole - it's the last project we started working on before I became president. It's basically From Software, they started working on this project when it was an older generation. So it's a turning point. It'll be a turning point, but it's not final."
With this in mind, when asked what possible directions Dark Souls III might take, Miyazaki said quite a lot, but without saying much at all:
"From Software is well known not only for the fantasy game, but they've been creating the sci-fi mech game Armored Core and also some Japanese-style games, like the ninja games. So I may introduce a new direction in those genres or themes that From Software has worked on in the past in new, future titles. However, there are so many things that I want to work on, and I'm actually not communicating anything at this moment, so don't call me a liar if they don't happen!"
Dark Souls III is heading to Xbox One, PS4 and PC early next year.