At the time of typing, the PlayStation 4 is days away from its second birthday. For some reason, though, people are already looking ahead to the next generation. Apparently, there's a concern that Naughty Dog may not have enough time to put another title on the system once Uncharted 4: A Thief's End is done and dusted. It seems like madness to us – and community strategist Arne Meyer appears to agree.
"I would hope that we would release a game pretty soon," he reassured Finder.com. "Yeah, our development cycles aren't too long and I have no idea how long this console generation really is going to last, but, yeah, there's no doubt [that our next game] should release in this console generation for sure."
We suppose that the big question revolves around what the studio's actually going to produce. It's suggested that next year will mark the end of the road for Nathan Drake, and it seems unlikely to return to Jak & Daxter any time soon. It could, of course, create a new franchise – but there's been a groundswell of speculation regarding The Last of Us 2 lately, so we'd put money on that. In fact, we'd be surprised if it didn't already have a small team working on it.
[source finder.com]
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Very likely they already have a small team working on it. They're probably working on the story and some character and environment models.
I expect they'll make a new IP for the PlayStation 5, and then make The Last of Us 3.
The last of us 2 the new characters have big shoes to fill i loved Ellie and Joel.
Gonna be another freaking 7- or 8-year console cycle. Happy times.
Successful dev continuing to make games shocker.
I reckon that TLOU2 will probably come Late 2017, I'm being a little optimistic though
Probably what they did with uncharted 3 and last of us. Had a small group working on the latter, and when they completed the former, they adjusted their staff over to the latter game. So I imagine they already have something in the works.
Need a Jak & Daxter reboot
If they are new games, I don't mind, if it is remasters either one year later or missing game modes, then I will pass.
Yeah, evidence seems to be mounting for Last of Us 2.
After that I hope we get the start of a new IP too.
I certainly see Microsoft doing heavy RnD for another console, since they are behind in sales, way more than Sony. Maybe a 4-5 year shelf-life of the current console. Games get better the longer the systems are out which impacts developers. Technology hardware is always ahead and we knew at the time the PS4 was released, the hardware was considered "old." Not sure how I feel about another Last of Us. I think we here was a thread about some of us liking a Naughty Dog sci-fi story more than a continued Last of Us.
We'll get TLOU2 at the end of this gen. That will be their second and last PS4 game I reckon. Its a shame Uncharted 4 wasn't a launch game.
@WARDIE
Two years would've been a pretty quick turnaround considering PS4 was new hardware but I still think the game should've been out by 2014, certainly this year. Ridiculous that it's been this long a wait.
TLoU 2 or bust.
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