Naughty Dog co-president Neil Druckmann has said the workplace has officially moved connected from Uncharted and is present focusing connected the adjacent section of The Last of Us done the caller multiplayer game.

In an interview with Buzzfeed, Druckmann explained that Sony doesn't unit Naughty Dog into creating a sequel conscionable due to the fact that a crippled is successful, and that the steadfast has been precise supportive successful letting the workplace travel its ain passions.

“That's not the case. For us, Uncharted was insanely successful,” Druckmann said. “Uncharted 4 was 1 of our best-selling games, and we're capable to enactment our last brushstroke connected that communicative and accidental that we're done. We're moving on.”

Druckmann didn't elaborate connected whether helium was referred to Nathan Drake's story, which ended with Uncharted 4, oregon the franchise arsenic a whole. Its past merchandise was 2022's Legacy of Thieves Collection, with the astir caller mainline entries being 2016's Uncharted 4 and the 2017 side-story Lost Legacy.

Sony Pictures besides released a movie adaptation starring Tom Holland that was met with mixed reviews, but was yet capable to gross $401 cardinal successful the planetary container office.

Naughty Dog weighs successful connected The Last of Us Part 3

When asked astir a imaginable The Last of Us Part 3, Druckmann noted that it’s up to Naughty Dog itself to determine if it wants to grow the stories of Ellie and company, but it's presently focused connected creating a marque caller communicative for the multiplayer game.

"We've been beauteous unfastened that the adjacent Last of Us crippled is going to beryllium this multiplayer experience, wherever you'll beryllium capable to participate the satellite of The Last of Us with your person and get to acquisition the hostility and the brutality of that satellite — and a marque caller communicative and formed of characters that unrecorded successful different metropolis that we haven't seen yet successful the satellite of The Last of Us. This is going to beryllium different section successful the beingness of The Last of Us."

As for a dedicated, single-player Part 3, however, Druckmann continued: “Our process is the aforesaid happening we did erstwhile we did Part 2, which is if we tin travel up with a compelling communicative that has this cosmopolitan connection and connection astir emotion — conscionable similar the archetypal and 2nd crippled did — past we volition archer that story. If we can't travel up with something, we person a precise beardown ending with Part 2 and that volition beryllium the end."

Naughty Dog showed disconnected new conception creation for the multiplayer game earlier this period and teased that much updates volition beryllium coming this year. Thanks to The Last of Us HBO TV adaptation, sales for The Last of Us Part 1 accrued by 238% successful the UK.

The Last of Us Part 1 was released connected PS5 backmost successful September 2022, but it’s coming to PC connected March 3. In IGN’s The Last of Us Part 1 review, we said, A gorgeous and well-honed remake of 1 of the biggest boppers successful the PlayStation pantheon, The Last of Us Part I is the champion mode to play – oregon replay – Naughty Dog’s esteemed endurance classic.”

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