Naughty Dog Teases The Last of Us 3 Will (Eventually) Happen

The Final of Us is one in all PlayStation’s largest properties, and its odds of constant have grown with each 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 count on it inside the subsequent few years.

Developer Naughty Canine launched its Grounded 2 documentary forward of the weekend, which fits all into the event (and aftermath) of 2020’s The Final of Us Half II. In the direction of the top of it, co-director Neil Druckmann stated he’s acquired an idea for a Half 3 in his head, and that there’s “most likely another chapteer to this story.” Concurrently, he argued that Half II may function a a becoming endpoint of the sequence, because it wraps a bow on the general have a look at the lengths of affection as established within the authentic 2013 recreation.

“The wonderful thing about working at Naughty Canine is that we don’t must,” defined Druckmann, who added that one thing else could strike the studio’s fancy. He’s beforehand been evasive on the possibilities of a 3rd recreation, however stated it wasn’t till just lately that he discovered an concept that’s “thrilling as [Part I and II], is its personal factor, and but has this throughline for all three.”

Late final yr, Naughty Canine canceled its lengthy in-development multiplayer spinoff for The Final of Us so it may persist with being a single-player studio. In keeping with Forbes, the developer is now engaged on an alleged sci-fi game first heard about in 2021. Naughty Canine already stated it’s engaged on several projects (probably together with a fantasy title, so it might be a while earlier than we get a full reveal of The Final of Us Half III. The wait between the primary two video games was seven years, and with triple-A video games taking as lengthy (and as much) as they do to make, it’s stated mission could not come till the subsequent new PlayStation console. And that will not come till 2028, if not 2029 or 2030.

Within the meantime, you may satiate your Final of Us wants by with the live-action sequence on Max (and its second season presumably airing subsequent yr), and the primary two video games on PlayStation 5.

[by way of IGN]

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