Naughty Dog Is Moving On From The Uncharted Franchise

It looks like the Uncharted franchise is done and Naughty Dog might be doing the same for The Last Of Us franchise.

Speaking with BuzzFeed, Naughty Dog co-president Neil Druckmann said:

“I know there’s a bunch of people wondering about The Last of Us Part 3 and whether that will be a thing or not. All I could say is, at Naughty Dog we’re very, very privileged that our publisher is Sony — which means Sony funds our games, supports us, and we’re owned by Sony. They have supported us every step of the way to follow our passions — meaning that just because something is successful, people think there’s all this pressure and we have to make a sequel. That’s not the case.

For us, Uncharted was insanely successful — Uncharted 4 was one of our best-selling games — and we’re able to put our final brushstroke on that story and say that we’re done. We’re moving on.

Likewise, with The Last of Us, it’s up to us whether we want to continue it or not.

Our process is the same thing we did when we did Part 2, which is if we can come up with a compelling story that has this universal message and statement about love — just like the first and second games did — then we will tell that story. If we can’t come up with something, we have a very strong ending with Part 2 and that will be the end.”

Courtesy of HBO Asia, we were lucky enough to be the only Malaysian media to participate in interviews with Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey, Merle Dandridge and Gabriel Luna. You can also check out our spoiler-free review of the entire season by heading over here.