Naughty Dog defends The Last of Us Multiplayer

[Andrespetmonkey]

pezus said:

Andrespetmonkey said:

pezus said:
They have two teams working on SP and MP seperately. I'm very,very OK with it.

I don't think the logic of having a seperate team makes total sense. You could have that second team also focus on SP.

I hate to think that the team working on MP is the UC3 team... I hope they're working on UC4 for Orbis.

What if they don't need that many to make the SP? They've had plenty of time too, so it shouldn't be affecting the SP at all.

We have to assume their aspirations and goals for single-player are in some way based around the resources they have at their disposal. If they went into development of the single-player knowing they were going to be able to take advantage of the other team (working on MP) they're aspirations and goals would be different, probably more ambitious. We would maybe see a longer and/or more polished single-player, added mechanics, plot points etc.

Or it could be that only because a multi-player mode was planned they were allocated these extra resources, negating the above para. I hope it's this.