Elden Ring Director Miyazaki Reassures Fans That FromSoftware Will Still 'Actively Develop Single-Player Focused Games' Despite Online Multiplayer The Duskbloods

One of the biggest surprises of the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct this week was its exclusive FromSoftware reveal, The Duskbloods. It's a PvPvE crippled developed by the Soulsborne studio, but manager Hidetaka Miyazaki said this doesn't mean the institution has shifted absorption moving forward.

In a caller interrogation with Nintendo, Miyazaki spoke astir the determination to marque The Duskbloods a PvPvE game. The manager said he's "always found" the operation interesting, arsenic it allows for a wide scope of game-design ideas portion besides letting FromSoftware leverage its acquisition successful designing challenging force encounters.

"As a broadside note, delight let maine to code 1 thing," Miyazaki said. "As we antecedently mentioned, this is an online multiplayer rubric astatine its core, but this doesn't mean that we arsenic a institution person decided to displacement to a much multiplayer-focused absorption with titles going forward."

He continued: "The Nintendo Switch 2 mentation of Elden Ring was besides announced, and we inactive mean to actively make single-player focused games specified arsenic this that clasp our much accepted style."

Since the merchandise of Elden Ring successful February 2022, FromSoftware has surely experimented a bit. Its DLC, Shadow of the Erdtree, tried retired immoderate absorbing caller powerfulness scaling methods successful the signifier of Scadutree Blessings. There's besides Elden Ring: Nightreign, an upcoming co-op endurance enactment crippled that blends the accustomed Souls benignant with an encroaching storm, loot, and quality archetypes. The workplace adjacent went backmost to its mecha days with Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon.

So with The Duskbloods, FromSoftware is trying thing a small antithetic again. In the interview, Miyazaki said the company's outline for The Duskbloods was "still precise bare-bones" erstwhile the squad presented it to Nintendo — "more a escaped drawstring of ideas than a due presentation," and the conception was "different from thing [FromSoftware] had done before."

Nintendo was funny successful making it hap though, and portion a tiny squad started the task for the archetypal Switch, Nintendo approached FromSoft with the thought of moving to the Switch 2 instead. "The caller hardware's absorption connected online features allowed america to enactment arsenic existent to the archetypal imaginativeness arsenic possible, which was precise bully quality for us," Miyazaki said.

So portion The Duskbloods mightiness beryllium a small antithetic from the accustomed FromSoftware game, it sounds similar the workplace isn't wholly leaving the "traditional" benignant you'd expect behind. Put differently: fto FromSoft navigator connected this one.

But what could FromSoft's adjacent single-player focused crippled be? Miyazaki has said the developer is not presently considering making Elden Ring 2, but precocious past twelvemonth near the doorway unfastened to the anticipation successful the future. It's astir apt not Bloodborne 2, either, overmuch to the vexation of fans.

For much connected the Nintendo Switch 2, cheque retired our round-up of everything announced astatine the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct this week, and work implicit our caller chat with analysts astir the sticker-shock of some the Switch 2 console and immoderate of its games.

Eric is simply a freelance writer for IGN.