Hope his plot armor self dies off screen

Should have given player choice to kill Abby or not then two campaigns for game 3 based on what they did

Usually about 5 years between sequels we should have an announcement soon. But this is on new hardware though, plus it's NG. Hopefully we get something soon. I'm not even soon if they are working on tlou 3 though. Most likely yeah but you never know.

Neil at the end of the grounded 2 doc:

"end of grounded doc: neil " i have a concept for the next part of the story. its a concept right now, not a fully story... but i feel like theres one last chapter for the story"

Full Quote:

I did some other interview where someone asked me about The Last of Us, and would there be any more stories or something. I mentioned we have written a story that takes place after Last of Us II that stars Tommy. I hope one day we get to make it. The headlines across the industry were like, 'Naughty Dog Has Outlined The Last of Us Part III.' And that's actually wrong. It was always a small story, it was never a full title.

At the time, we had higher priorities at Naughty Dog, to fix our pipeline, to fix work-life balance issues. Just based on where we were, I didn't wanna prioritize this story, so that story was shelved. I still believe one day it will see the light of day. I don't know if it'll be a game or a show… TBD.

The first game had such a clean concept of the unconditional love a parent feels for their child. The second one, once we landed on this idea of the pursuit of justice at any cost, justice for the ones you love, it felt like there's a clean concept here and there's a through-line from the first game about love. If we never get to do it again, this is a fine ending point. The last bite of the apple, the story's done.

The great thing about working at Naughty Dog is that we don't have to. It's always like, we would love another Last of Us, but if you guys are passionate about something else, we'll support this other thing. Very privileged position to be in. I never take that for granted.

I've been thinking about, "Is there a concept there?" And for now years, I haven't been able to find that concept. But recently that's changed. I don't have a story, but I do have that concept, that, to me, is as exciting as I, as exciting as II, is its own thing, yet has this through-line for all 3. So it does feel like there's probably one more chapter to this story.

2026

see yall in 2030

Yeah. 2026 is more likely the release date for their new IP, I bet they’ll start showing it off next year

Crazy how this franchise went from getting possibly multiple new tlou games in the coming years to maybe one game in like 6-7 years

Glad to see that we finally have confirmation that Part 3 is coming . But definitely sounds like it’s very far away

New IP coming up for sure

But when was this doc recorded? Years ago? Or recently? Do we know when this quote was from?

that quote is from april 2023

The title need to change, this is NOT coming out in 2026 lmao

Last of Us 3: The Uncle Chronicles

ok that definitely changes how I view this now. when he said all this he was picturing TLOU online as the future of the series and years of work to come. With all that time and resources now freed up, he’s probably starting tlou3 pre production this year

id imagine that concept is now a story by now and they are making concept art and design docs for it. but i dont imagine it in any sort of full dev yet. New ip 100% their priority now

Is the prevailing thought that we get a AAA game from them (like a new IP) before this or is this their next one and then they’re gonna go full steam into the next big IP?

the new quote / doc basically confirms 100% a new ip is first before tlou3

PS6 Launch Title who’s with me?

Yeah tlou3 will be in pre-production for a while if it was in concept phase last year. I’m curious how long they’ve been working on their new IP, do we know if that development started around the end of tlou2’s dev?

in the doc they showed how right after tlou2 they took time to re organize their entire pipeline / work flow and bring in producers to limit crunch instead of focusing on a new game right away. But assumptions are they started dev on a new game by end of 2020 / start of 2021

New IP in 2026-2027 and PS6 in 2027 probably, timing doesn’t really work out.

New IP for sure

Neil has had this caption on his Twitter profile for a couple years now.
And the way he talked about TLOU3 in the documentary, it seems like he is still just ironing out the story for a Part 3 .
But this unannounced game has been in development for a while now

Good, I'd like to see a new IP that gives them freedom to have more interesting gameplay mechanics

Lol the game is in its early stages so I think it'll be before 2030... So alright I'll change it to 2028 for now

Playing as Tommy would be peak