As a studio, what do we want to commit to? Because it’s a huge commitment – monetary, time, passion, talent, so you think about all the opportunity costs that come with that. I like to fully explore all of those, then look at, like: okay, we have all of these ideas in front of us. 'After we finish one of our big titles,' Druckmann explained, 'we take a long time to explore different ideas, whether it’s going to be Last of Us III, whether it's something new, whether there's some old franchise we want to go back to. With two games, now there’s starting to be a pattern – now I feel like there are some structural and thematic themes you'd have to stick to if you're making a third game.' It seems that Naughty Dog is currently exploring what to do next. With one game, there’s no pattern of what a franchise is.

'We’ve now had two games that I feel speak to something universal as well as telling a very personal story for these characters.

, I've been thinking about it for seven years, between when the last game came out and when this came out You want to make sure you’re jazzed by the idea that you have, it feels like it’s challenging. The Last of Us Platform: PS3, PS4 Released: JDeveloper: Naughty Dog Publisher: Sony Genre: Action, Adventure Multiplayer: Online Multiplayer Engine: Proprietary (overall), Havok.

Play Druckmann says there's been 'quite a bit' of discussion internally about a Part 3, but pointed out how much work is involved in making a game like this a reality: 'These games take so much to make.

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