It’s official: Naughty Dog has canceled The Last of Us Online

It’s now official. the Naughty dog He canceled the project he had been working on for many years, which was in his world The last of us, but online multiplayer. The game was also known as “Latest of us online“It was under development even before it was released The Last of Us: Part Two On PlayStation 4.

This news came via Naughty Dog’s official website, which revealed that the game’s ambitions were so great that they required the studio’s full attention, thus removing any part of the team from the narrative-driven single-player games.

We understand that many of you have been waiting for news about the project that we called The Last of Us Online. There’s no easy way to say it: We’ve made the very difficult decision to stop development of this game.

We know this news will be difficult for many, especially in the dedicated The Last of Us Factions community, who are eagerly following our multiplayer ambitions. We are just as overwhelmed with the studio as we have been looking forward to giving it to you.

The multiplayer team has had this game in pre-production since we’ve been working on The Last of Us Part II and we wanted to create a unique experience, with a lot of potential. In order to release and support The Last of Us Online, we will have to leave all of the studio’s resources behind and deliver post-launch content for years to come, severely impacting the development of future single-player games.

So we had two paths: become a live-service studio or continue to focus on the single-player narrative games that defined Naughty Dog’s legacy.

Update about The Last of Us Online: https://t.co/nMUm7TmH9h pic.twitter.com/fmuXCLzDMB

– Naughty dog ​​(@Naughty_Dog) December 14, 2023

It seems that The Last of Us Online has become a giant in the eyes of Naughty Dog, and instead of being busy constantly bringing new content to this game, it has decided to focus on the single player.

The company concluded its statements with the following announcements:

We’ve finished an ambitious, brand-new single-player game in the works here at Naughty Dog, and we can’t wait to share more about what’s next when we’re ready.

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