The Last of Us is one in every of PlayStation’s largest properties, and its odds of constant have grown with each remaster and its at the moment ongoing HBO adaptation. Unsurprisingly, a 3rd sport is deliberate to come back out sooner or later—simply don’t count on it inside the subsequent few years.
Developer Naughty Dog launched its Grounded 2 documentary forward of the weekend, which works all into the event (and aftermath) of 2020’s The Last of Us Part II. Towards the top of it, co-director Neil Druckmann mentioned 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 may function a a becoming endpoint of the collection, because it wraps a bow on the general have a look at the lengths of affection as established within the authentic 2013 sport.
“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 sport, however mentioned 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 may keep on with being a single-player studio. According to Forbesthe developer is now engaged on an alleged sci-fi game first heard about in 2021. Naughty Dog already mentioned 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 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 much) as they do to make, it’s mentioned undertaking could not come till the subsequent new PlayStation console. And that won’t come till 2028if not 2029 or 2030.
In the meantime, you’ll be able to 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.
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