Including what was the main consequence of its cancellation
The Last of Us is today one of the most important sagas on PlayStation, and it has managed to make such important characters of the franchise as Joel become true icons of the brand, being able to be alongside giants like Kratos. Even so, we are talking about a somewhat limited IP, which in recent years has simply has offered us new versions of its already released deliveriesand which also failed to inspire with the announcement of its online game. This title was already cancelled some time ago, but it is now that we are learning new details about it, which can help us confirm the reason for your cancellation.
Jason Schreier, a journalist at Bloomberg, has shared a lot of information about this project. According to him, we are talking about a project that was in development for 4 years in total, with a team of more than a hundred workers, so we are not talking about a minor project.
Plus, it sounds like we're talking about an expansive game, so we could have had another game-as-a-service within Sony. Unfortunately, and as we've already mentioned, it ended up being cancelled, which according to Jason Schreier himself “made some heads roll at Sony.”
This has been shared by several users on X/Twitter and other social networks, as it is a fragment of the Friends Per Second podcast in which he offered all this information.
👀 Naughty Dog's The Last of Us Online /Factions 2
🔹”Was In development for ~4 years
🔹With a team in the hundreds”
🔹An expensive project
🔹The cancellation “made some heads roll at Sony as a result”By Jason Schreier#PlayStation #PS5 #Lastofus #TLOU pic.twitter.com/rABR04REqH
— Dream Walker (@Dream_WaIker) August 9, 2024
This also coincided with the cancellation of several other projects in development with the same general theme, i.e. games as a service. Still, it is possible that the success of Helldivers II will allow them to understand how to offer a good title of this type.
The future of The Last of Us
The future of The Last of Us saga is still uncertain. There has been much talk about what could end with the second installment, considered one of the best games in history, but it seems that we will finally have a third title that could close a trilogy for Naughty Dog.
It is possible that At some point we will have some other spin-offbut as we say, this is just speculation, given that the future of The Last of Us is largely uncertain.
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