Shift Up has announced in a recent financial report that it intends to expand the Stellar Blade franchise with “various derivative works”.
The financial report (which can be read here though is entirely in Korean) dives into the success of its different products including Stellar Blade in the section titled “Main Products and Services”. There, the company highlights the game’s stellar (zing) performance both at launch and with its port to PC.
The report states (via machine translation): “Through this, [Stellar Blade] was able to effectively secure a new user base and further strengthen its position as a global AAA franchise IP. We plan to develop various derivative works to expand the [Stellar Blade] IP so that [Stellar Blade] can establish itself as a well-made IP.”
This should not be a massive surprise for two major reasons. The first being that Stellar Blade has proven exceptionally successful for Shift Up, especially when you consider it was an original work for the studio. The game sold over a million copies on PC within three days of the Steam version going live, after all.
Secondly, Shift Up previously stated its intention to make a Stellar Blade 2 back in May, courtesy of an investor presentation. So true Stellar Blade fanatics have further evidence of something to look forward to. If you want a tinfoil hat angle to this bit of news, it’s interesting to note this most recent financial report makes note of a general intent to make “derivative works”, rather than solely stating a sequel. Though, that’s pure speculation.
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