SOUTH PARK Creators Say The Future of The Show May Be in Video Games

South Park is still going strong after nineteen seasons (it's crazy to remember it started way back in 1997), and creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are still churning out episodes as incisive and hilarious as ever. The duo are at E3 to promote their new game South Park: The Fractured But Whole, and in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, they had some interesting things to say about the future of the show:

STONE: I think we’ll probably do semi-serialization for the rest of it. Cat’s out of the bag. We can’t go back. If it’s the right thing for the end of the story, we let some things hang.

PARKER: We also know that this [he points at the video game] might be the future of South Park. This might be where things are going.

STONE: I think in 20 years, 10 years, people will be playing more. That convergence of entertainment, whether it’s VR or a more immersive thing. The more you get in it, the more you watch Pew Die Pie, and people watch Pew Die Pie play, and you watch E-sports. You watch young people, and the way they engage with something – shit, maybe that is the future of South Park.

Elsewhere in the interview, the guys talk about how much hard work it took to make the new game and how they could have made another movie instead, but because they're gamers, they chose to go in a different direction. It certainly seems like they're willing to embracing gaming as the future. I haven't played The Stick of Truth (I've heard good things) and The Fractured But Whole looks great, so if the show actually does come to an end in 2020, I'd be thrilled with seeing the guys continue the story in video game form for years beyond that. What do you think?