“We have one or two games left in this generation”: Naughty Dog on life after Uncharted 4
Posted November 13th, 2015 and last modified November 14th, 2015
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End will hit shelves on March 18, 2016, concluding the Nathan Drake story. So, what’s next for Naughty Dog when Uncharted wraps? According to Arne Meyer, Naughty Dog isn’t slowing down production any time soon.
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End comes out early 2016 and it is implied to be lead character Nathan Drake’s swansong. Given the
Uncharted universe doesn’t really lend itself well to any kind of spin-off (the only characters worthy of such an honour are
Chloe and Cutter and their status is currently unknown), it can also be assumed that this will be the last foray into the now iconic franchise for quite some time. That got us to thinking: what’s next for Naughty Dog?
We know that a new
Jak and Daxter is off the cards (at least for the PS4 generation), and it’s fairly clear
Crash Bandicoot won’t be spinning into action in the near future. Naughty Dog’s next obvious game for PS4 would be
The Last of Us 2 – which has been all but confirmed, thanks to a series of slips and leaks.
The Last of Us 2′s release will presumably come to us in late 2017, by which time you could assume Naughty Dog would be taking a much-needed vacation with its sights set on the next generation of consoles. However, according to Arne Meyer, community strategist for Naughty Dog, that’s not the case.
When we spoke to Meyer recently,
he was not only confident that Naughty Dog’s next game will make it to PS4, he also implied that Naughty Dog has two (maybe more) post-Uncharted 4 titles planned for the PS4 generation.