A Bandai Namco representative in a recent shareholders meeting, when asked by a X (formerly Twitter) user whether a new Tales game is in development considering the 30th year anniversary coming up in 2025; replied “There are things that I can’t reveal at the moment, but please look forward to upcoming announcements”.
The words used by the representative has raised hopes that the eagerly anticipated next entry in this massively popular franchise could have a definite release window being announced soon – as typically most official answers to such queries are on the lines of we will announce when we are ready or something like that.
The most recent entry, Tales of Arise was a success critically and commercially. The game sits with a Metacritic score of 87. Not only that, it crossed the 3 million sales milestone in February earlier this year and is the fastest selling game in the Tales franchise. So it does make a lot of commercial sense for Bandai Namco to have this game on their radar when it comes to planned releases for the year ahead.
