Sony Interactive Entertainment is known as a company who has a wide array of groundbreaking, innovative, and thought-provoking first party games from their publisher PlayStation Studios. One of those teams is Naughty Dog, the developer behind classic, juggernaut, generation-defining games like Crash Bandicoot and Jak & Daxter for platformers and for the action-adventure crowd, there’s their brilliant Uncharted series.
Something changed in 2013 for Naughty Dog, a few months before the PS4 ascended to become the next major PlayStation console. The Last of Us launched, a game that would redefine how we think about what a fantastic, near perfect game was. Now in 2023, putting PS4 aside that saw another Uncharted and even a The Last of Us sequel. No new IPs, just the same pair of PS3 IPs we’ve had. That is worrisome, and today, it seems we have an answer as to why that was so worrying. Naughty Dog yesterday (November 17th, 2023) announced The Last of Us Part II Remastered.
There is nothing inherently wrong with remastering a game, I am not disputing that. The issue at hand is, well, there are now more re-releases of The Last of Us than there are proper games in the series itself. What has possessed Naughty Dog to approve this in the first place? Could it be a PC release or a lack of titles available in the near future from that team? Could…
