Diablo 4 Will Be Around "For Years," Blizzard Says; Don't Expect Diablo 5 Soon

Sequels are hallmark of the video game industry, but no one should expect Diablo 5 anytime soon. Blizzard's Rod Fergusson said in an interview that the studio intends for Diablo 4 to stick around "for years" to come.

Diablo 4 is embracing a sort-of live-service approach with plans for yearly expansions--however, 2025's expansion is now coming in 2026. In any event, Blizzard intends to continue to support Diablo 4 as opposed to moving on right away to a potential sequel.

"I don't know if it's eternal. I think Destiny tried and did that like, 'This is a ten-year game,' and then they quickly were not," Fergusson told IGN. "We want people to see the road ahead, because we know that, to play a Diablo game, you're probably putting hundreds of hours in and we want people to know that we're respecting their time and that we're not just here and gone."

A long wait for a Diablo sequel is pretty standard stuff, as there was a decade gap between Diablo 2 and 3, and then 10 years between Diablo 3 and 4.

Diablo 4 launched in 2023 and was a quick success, earning a devilish $666 million within its first five days, later climbing to $1 billion. In addition to sales of the game, Blizzard makes lots of money from the game from its various microtransactions.

Diablo 4 is available now on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC. The game is available in Game Pass. Diablo 4's first expansion, Vessel of Hatred, was released in October 2024, and as previously mentioned, the next expansion is coming in 2026.