Will Naughty Dog's Next IP be developed with a more fully realised multi-game story arc from the outset?

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Just reflecting on the IP we've had from Naughty Dog over the past few generations:

Crash Bandicoot: a game more or less without story. Sequels probably hoped for, but no particular need to plan anythign beyond "make the same style of game"

Jak and Daxter: The original game was a complete story with no clear scope for a sequel. It was so well sewn up that Jak had to be propelled far into the future to make a sequel work.

Uncharted: Also the first game was an adventure romp with no broader story arc, and no set up for more. Drake's story was backfilled as they went along. But a different, and creatively and narratively better approach is to write Drake's life history right at the beginning and reveal it over a series of games.

TLOU: lots of people felt so satisfied with how the game ended that there was more than a handful of people feeling like a sequel would not be a good move. And it sounds like Naughty Dog was not setting in motion a bigger story to be told.

Naughty Dog has grown a lot in confidence creatively over the last 10 years or so, and their reputation for making great games is established. They can certainly allow themselves to plan for a new IP with a multi-game series with a wide story arc firmly in mind right from the conceptual stage. I'd like to see what Naughty Dog can do with a world and story arc that requires multiple games and multiple main characters.