Monolith Soft’s 1st Production development department, which developed Xenoblade Chronicles, Xenoblade Chronicles X, and Xenoblade Chronicles 2, is hiring staff for the development of a new RPG project.

The studio is seeking programmers (graphics programmers, character control programmers, and AI programmers), planners (level designers), technical artists (modeling TA, animation TA, and effects TA), designers (map modelers, in-game animators, character modelers, character designers for the artwork staff, and script event creators), and management and support staff (production assistants and event production management) to work on the RPG.

Recruitment website here

Source

Is it different from the other project we heard about?

https://gematsu.com/2017/08/monolith-soft-hiring-ambitious-new-project-different-brand-image

Xenoblade Chronicles 3?
X2?!
A New IP?!?

I have so many questions!!!

The image is very Xeno like but they did say they don't have plans at the moment although they may do now the image however could just be there for recognition sake, they did say that each of their projects will try to be different from the last which XB has shown to be accurate with each having significant differences.

That image is a concept art piece for Xenoblade.  The backdrop for the recruitment site is a gallery of Xenoblade 1, 2, and X concepts and in-game screenshots.  So yeah, just for recognition.

Nintendo owns them right? so zero chance of this being a multiplat...

Anyways a new non-xenoblade like RPG? intresting.

Yup they have been a first party developer since 2007.

i am 90% sure they are going to make Xenoblade Chronicles HD and port Xenoblade Chronicles X to the Switch, and for several reasons

-XC debuted to a niche audience, and with a small amount of English copies available. Today a physical copy of Xenoblade Chronicles is considered a collectors item and goes for prices high above the original market price. even copies of Xenoblade Chronicles 3D have been marked up due to rarity. Xenoblade Chronicles X also isnt particularly common due to the Wii U having an underwhelming presence.
-a lot of assets are already made. the Expansion Pass for XC2 added a new challenge mode which introduced brand new models for Shulk, Fiora, and Elma, as well as a large amount of XC enemies.
-the developers behind the game have stated they want to port XCX to the Switch

I want to see another Baten Kaitos game but I realize the odds of that happening are basically zero.  As long as Nintendo remains short on AAA titles, Monolith will be used to pump out RPG's that can swing in the same ballpark as Final Fantasy, in other words it will be another Xenoblade title

Hope its a new Ip