The Last of Us is one of PlayStation’s largest properties, and its odds of persevering with have grown with every remaster and its at present ongoing HBO adaptation. Unsurprisingly, a 3rd recreation is deliberate to come back out in some unspecified time in the future—simply don’t anticipate it throughout the subsequent few years.
Developer Naughty Dog launched its Grounded 2 documentary forward of the weekend, which matches all into the event (and aftermath) of 2020’s The Last of Us Part II. Towards the tip of it, co-director Neil Druckmann stated he’s received an idea for a Part 3 in his head, and that there’s “probably one more chapteer to this story.” Simultaneously, he argued that Part II might function a a becoming endpoint of the collection, because it wraps a bow on the general have a look at the lengths of love as established within the unique 2013 recreation.
“The great thing about working at Naughty Dog is that we don’t have to,” defined Druckmann, who added that one thing else could strike the studio’s fancy. He’s beforehand been evasive on the probabilities of a 3rd recreation, however stated it wasn’t till just lately that he discovered an concept that’s “exciting as [Part I and II], is its own thing, and yet has this throughline for all three.”
Late final 12 months, Naughty Dog canceled its lengthy in-development multiplayer spinoff for The Last of Us so it might stick with being a single-player studio. According to Forbes, the developer is now engaged on an alleged sci-fi recreation first heard about in 2021. Naughty Dog already stated it’s engaged on a number of initiatives (presumably together with a fantasy title, so it could be a while earlier than we get a full reveal of The Last of Us Part III. The wait between the primary two video games was seven years, and with triple-A video games taking as lengthy (and as a lot) as they do to make, it’s stated challenge could not come till the subsequent new PlayStation console. And that won’t come till 2028, if not 2029 or 2030.
In the meantime, you may satiate your Last of Us wants by with the live-action collection on Max (and its second season presumably airing subsequent 12 months), and the primary two video games on PlayStation 5.
[via IGN]
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