Eurogamer: Does this mean Uncharted can carry on further without Nathan Drake? Do you consider this the end of its characters' stories?

Escayg: I wouldn't say it's the end. This thieving world is huge. There's so many characters. Even before we settled on this particular story we were exploring Sullivan, we were exploring Cutter, and pairing each other up, thinking what would be right, what would have conflict, growth, something new, something fresh. And Chloe was the one that kept jumping out.

But to say the Uncharted world is done... I doubt that highly.

Eurogamer: Lost Legacy looks up to the quality fans now expect from Naughty Dog - but you guys are also working on The Last of Us 2. How many people are working on Lost Legacy now? How much of the studio?

Escayg: Right now, the studio's focus is Lost Legacy. We have a truly ambitious schedule. The Last of Us [project] is working but at a lot slower pace right now. The entire team is on Lost Legacy - that's a couple hundred of us strong.

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To create a bigger and even more profitable franchise like The Last of Us.

Keep the Uncharted series going. More games the better.

Uncharted 5: Cassie's Adventure incoming 

Oh god please no. Please use your talents for an interesting IP. I mean TLOU worked out great.

Agreed. I love uncharted as much as the next guy but the longer it runs, the higher the chance of losing quality. At least give the IP to another (competent) team so you can focus on new ideas.

From ND prior saying this is probably thelast Uncharted towards there will probably be a new Uncharted in less than a year. Such consistency ;)

I wish they had a studio that made Crash/Jax - like games. I simply don't enjoy Uncharted/The last of us :s.

To the rest of us, Uncharted is an interesting IP.

They should have called it Uncharted 5, why didn't they under the pretext that it's another protagonist? I hate franchise fragmentations and BS spin-offs.