The next Naughty Dog game has been selected and is in development now. Vice president Neil Druckmann, appearing on a Kinda Funny Spoilercast , confirmed the first-party developer has already decided what its next PS5 project is going to be – and while he couldn’t reveal what it is, he explained that the team selected the title it was collectively “most excited about”.
Elsewhere in the interview, he explained that Naughty Dog has been restructured to allow it to develop more than one title at a time, which is evidenced by the fact it released The Last of Us: Part I last year and has a standalone multiplayer game in development as well. He added that the studio now has a large number of producers, game directors, and writers, allowing it to be more organised overall.
Druckmann wouldn’t confirm whether the team’s next game will be The Last of Us: Part 3 or not, but he did acknowledge the pent-up demand for a third game, and given the colossal success of the TV show it’s hard to imagine anything else at this point.
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It's hopefully TLoU part 3. It seems silly to start the TV show without source material for a complete story.
Acknowledging the demand for a new Last Of Us game, but in spite of heavy demand, Uncharted is done forever.
I mean, last time ND presented a new IP was 10 years ago. It's already time for something new... Part III can arrive at the end of the generation in 2027/28.
Here me out, what if naughty dog isn't working on last of us part but a new ip.. What if visual arts isn't working on an uncharted game but the last of us part 3 and blue point is working on the next uncharted. I mean they teased a new uncharted game a couple week ago and do put out a tease like that it has to be further along than we think
@Americansamurai1 What makes you think that was a teaser? That was just a commercial reporting on video games as if they occurred in the real world. They showed people riding in cars in GT7 , Ifrit battling in a city a modern city in FF16 and we certainly don’t see that in the games either. People be reading into this too much I think.
@KaijuKaiser pretty clearly an uncharted game or tomb raider, but anyone who finished uncharted 4 knows who that could be.
I swear if it’s another last of us game. I’ll boycott it. I want an new ip from them
They should move on from their previous IPs, that's obvious. I can imagine some soft sci-fi or an Alan Wake style story game.
I'm not really into fantasy games but knowing the quality of their products, that could go too.
Last of Us Part 2 Remake incoming.
With how terrible, from multiple stand points, the ending to PTII was, I really hope they do a PTIII. I think they need to toss the writer Neil was working with and either find someone else or just go with what Neil comes up with. They need to bring concise writing back to the story and give Ellie an actual ending to her character arc.
We all know it’s TLOU Part III, although I really want to see a new IP from Naughty Dog.
Surely leave TLOS3 for the PS6, they can already get at least 2 more TV series from part 2, which is probably 4 or more years.
Like to see a new IP myself.
Exciting news, i ain’t an Uncharted fan, but for that fan base it would be nice to see that for them. I would take a Last of Us Part 3 all day. That series and God of War is why i even buy a PS. So for my own needs and wants that would be great, a new IP could be just the thing tho, it’s always great to see a new awesome IP start up. Whatever they make will be great, they are so talented.
I'm not convinced TLOU pt 3 is as easy of a sell (or surefire hit) with how divisive pt 2 was.
It may make sense for the TV show to feed the hunger for the IP (it's not like the existing games won't still sell well alongside new seasons), while they shift to new IP development to broaden Sony's portfolio.
You have to imagine Sony wants a surefire hit maker like ND to be introducing more IP so they have a stronger, broader portfolio. Anything with the ND logo slapped on it is gonna garner more interest (and higher sales) than anything the majority of their other studios would be putting out.
Hoping we actually see it on PS5 as an exclusive that pushes the system, versus coming up late 2027 and basically being cross gen for PS6.
With the delays we have seen lately this would not surprise me either though.
Cool more games is always welcome.word up son
I look forward to the last of us part 3.
Wasn't this the case before as well since they were developing uc3 and tlou simultaneously. I do hope that this news means that nd's output increases a bit.
Savage Starlight!!
uhh... yea... we knew that....?
I’d love to see Jak 4.
@GamerStation257 I’ll not go with a full boycott, but where I live has rental services and I’ll just rent it.
It may not seem like that big of a deal, but I’ve bought every ND game for well over a decade including handhelds, but that stopped with TLoU Remaster Remaster.
I'll be genuinely disappointed if it's TLOU Part III.
TLOU 3, just do it.
Give gamers the Game and HBO more content for the TV show audience
Win, Win.
I really hope it’s a new ip
No matter what Neil says about Sony giving them autonomy, they are 100% telling him to make a part 3.
They don’t really have a choice.
Part II ended on basically a cliffhanger.
That wasn’t the case with the original game and frankly they probably should have stopped then. TLOU didn’t need a sequel.
But they didn’t do that; they made Part II so we need to finish the story. But Part III needs to be the final game in the franchise and then move onto a new IP.
SONY: Neil, you and your term have earned the right to make whatever you are collectively most excited about - just as long as its TLOU part 3.
@OmegaStriver last of us 2 killed their streak of great games. Naughty dog had banger after banger ever since crash 1 on ps1.
@GamerStation257 I think pt2 is one of their best.
@OrtadragoonX I don't see how pt2 was a cliffhanger. The story of pt2 was fully complete and the only question was did ellie go back to jackson or not. which is meant to be open to interpretation. We also know Abby and Lev made it to Catalina Island
leave last of us 3 for the ps6 please. we need 5 years to digest the bitter sweet, noble failure that was the last of us 2. also, the time is ripe to tackle a new, fresh IP... a different genre entirely is in order. as a big fan of nd since the ps1 days, i am disappointed to see this obsessive focus on the last of us.
A new IP would be great. TLOU P3 can wait for now.
"next temporal ps5 exclusive" fixed
Its going to be another the last of us game. I hope they return to uncharted but the last of us is too big a cash cow for them. I would like them to try something different outside of crash,uncharted and tlou but if they really have to play safe i'd rather it be uncharted..
If it was a new IP Neil would have said to manage LOU expectations. He’s fairly honest in interviews.
It’s Part 3 folks.
Anything but part 3 please, part 2 kinda killed my excitement for the franchise. A new IP would be great
If not a new IP we can only hope for another Uncharted. No interest in any more TLOU after the disaster that was Part II.
ND worked on both Uncharted and TLOU at the same time. They are a big company. I wouldn't be surprised if they were working on something not long after Lost Legacy. So I expect something other than Factions and TLOU3 to be revealed soon-ish.
I don't think they picked TLOU 3, I think they might be talking about the rumoured Sci-fi game.
@UltimateOtaku91
Ellie in space?
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