Fifteen years since ZOE2. Who can say?

The future of Zone of the Enders is unclear. The development team has had quite the shift since the release of the first two titles, so no one really has an answer. But in the interest of quelling any confusion surrounding what's next for ZOE, please visit the updates section for any new developments regarding the current status of "Zone of the Enders 3."

After the incredible ANUBIS, many fans of the series immediately began speculating on what the next high speed robot action experience would be like, particularly on next-gen platforms.

Since the establishment of Kojima Productions in 2005, word on Zone of the Enders as a series diminished quite a bit. Many fans feel the team's last ZOE work was a success, and, hopefully, ZOE2 mechanical designer Yoji Shinkawa, director Shuyo Murata, and sound programmers Toshiyuki Kakuta, Akihiro Honda, and several other members of the dev team who worked on the series will return to take part in the development of a future title.

Although development has not yet started on the next installment (due to the fact that the team had, at the time, been busy with a multitude of other projects that seemed to push the game back perpetually, the latest being Metal Gear Solid V before 2015 happened), it has been made evident that former ZOE producer Hideo Kojima has shown interest in the idea of a new Zone of the Enders game and would even like to make another sequel in the future, if you can believe that.

To support that, before his departure, he went as far as promising a sequel to ZOE2 at some point in the future. No timeframe was given, as the team was very busy with the aforementioned projects -- "...the production line is currently full."

In December 2011, Hideo Kojima stated that due to the limited amount of staff available on the Kojima Productions team, a Zone of the Enders 3 is still on hold.

In May 2012, just before E3, fans were thrilled with the announcement of the ENDERS Project, said to be the next ZOE title. While ENDERS Project may not have been a ZOE3 per se, it would have shed new light on the direction Kojima Productions was going with the ZOE franchise.

But with absolutely no word on ENDERS Project since then and the poor treatment (and sales) of ZOE HD, it was scrapped the following year. Probably for the forseeable future, and maybe even for the better.

As of 2018, and since Mr. Kojima's depature from KONAMI, there still has been no word on any ZOE3. Right now, the current focus is M∀RS, a re-release of ZOE2 in 4K resolution with VR compatibility. After all, there has to be demand for ZOE before there can be talk of developing more installments. And if sales are good...



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