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Naughty Canine boss Neil Druckmann has responded to a query about what the corporate may make subsequent after Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, and if it might be The Last of Us 3 or Uncharted 5.
Speaking to Variety, Druckmann mentioned he is hopeful that Intergalactic succeeds and that if it is a hit, “you will note it once more” within the type of a potential sequel. Nevertheless, whether or not or not a possible Intergalactic 2 is Naughty Canine’s subsequent sport “proper after that,” Druckmann would not say. “I depart that door open,” he mentioned.
Druckmann mentioned he needs to step again and assess the place the crew is at and the way they’re feeling when Intergalactic is completed earlier than “the choices in entrance of us” for the following venture.
“Now we have another concepts that we might prefer to discover as nicely,” Druckmann mentioned.
Additionally within the interview, Druckmann mentioned Naughty Canine does its greatest work when the crew collectively will get behind a selected sport or imaginative and prescient versus making one other sequel simply because it will probably. For example, Druckmann mentioned when The Last of Us II was accomplished, the studio debated whether or not or to not soar proper again in and make The Last of Us 3. “We had a very lengthy interval the place we checked out concepts for perhaps what might be in that sport,” Druckmann mentioned.
Druckmann mentioned Naughty Canine additionally checked out its different owned franchises, together with Uncharted and Jak and Daxter, after wrapping The Last of Us 2. Nevertheless, the studio determined to make Intergalactic as a substitute as a result of “that is the place our passions lie.”
With reference to The Last of Us 3, Druckmann beforehand dropped just a few clues that it could exist. As for the Uncharted collection, Naughty Canine has mentioned if it would not make Uncharted 5 itself, it will be completely happy to see one other studio step in and construct it.
Intergalactic is within the works now however doesn’t have a launch date. A report from earlier this 12 months mentioned it is unlikely to launch earlier than 2027.