Nightdive Studios, owner of System Shock IP, claimed that it was entirely up to Tencent to make a new sequel to the series.
Nighdive Studios, owner of System Shock IP, has been silent for a long time. System Shock 3Clarified his situation. However, he claimed that the arrival of the sequel is entirely up to Tencent.
System Shock 3 had been in development for several years at the hands of the Otherside Entertainment team led by Paul Neurath and Warren Spector, the developers of the original SS game, before it disappeared completely in 2020. Then, a statement was published on the official website of Otherside, claiming that Tencent “will completely take the System Shock series forward”.
The fate of the System Shock series is in Tencent’s hands
Despite an analysis on LinkedIN suggesting that almost the entire development team has left the studio, Otherside hasn’t commented on the matter for two years. at Gamescom VGCSpeaking to , Nightdive Studios CEO Stephen Kick claimed that the rights to the game, which were originally given to Otherside, were later sold to Chinese giant Tencent. Therefore, whether the third game will be made is entirely in Tencent’s hands.
“When we first got the franchise rights, we licensed the rights for the third game to Warren and Paul at Otherside. They then sold the rights to the game to Tencent,” Kick said. At the same time, he emphasized that they can make remakes of the first and second games, but all the rights of the third game are in Tencent.
If Tencent decides to develop the third game and continue, we may see new games for the series in the future. But first, System Shock 3, which turns into a snake story, has to come across from somewhere.
On the one hand, Nightdive is developing a long-awaited System Shock game that has been in development since 2016 and still has no release date. While we haven’t heard anything from Tencent and Otherside about the sequel, Nightdive says they will definitely be working on more SS games.