Naughty Dog mulls The Last of Us 2

And an all-new IP.

Naughty Dog is currently considering its options regarding a sequel to The Last of Us, its critically acclaimed post-apocalyptic action game that launched to critical and commercial acclaim early last year.

Talking the week before the PlayStation 3 game gets its first and only single-player DLC, a prequel that explores some of the origins of main character Ellie, writer and creative director Neil Druckmann has said that Naughty Dog's looking at how best to approach a sequel.

"We just wrapped up Left Behind, and Bruce Straley, the game director, and I have been doing this for over four years now. So it's just time for a break, and to recharge the batteries," Druckmann told Eurogamer.

"We have started brainstorming some stuff. To be honest, some of them are sequel ideas, and some of them are brand new IP - we've spent the last few weeks brainstorming new IP. So we have to get some good steps and see... It's kind of like how we approached Left Behind. Can we tell people a story that's really worth telling, and that's not repeating itself? And if we can't, where can we get inspired - what is something that's really going to challenge us, and push storytelling in this medium forward?"

Naughty Dog now has two teams internally, with one working on an Uncharted game for PlayStation 4. There had been some speculation that The Last of Us would be bundled with its new story DLC for a PlayStation 4 port, though there's nothing to share on that just yet.

"We have such limited resources, and it's a question of where you put the resources," Druckmann said of the possibility of a PlayStation 4 port of The Last of Us. "It's something where we can have a feel of where the demand is, and where our time is best spent. It's something that we'll figure out as we move forward."

Source: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-02-07-naughty-dog-mulls-the-last-of-us-2

Just do it already. I will stop pestering you for a PS4 port if you announce a sequel.

Why do people always want sequels to everything, even from studios like Naughty Dog? Whatever ND creates is an instant classic, sequel or not, and the people wanting a sequel will be happy even if the new game isn't a sequel. I understand that people love what they've already seen to be good but really, if you're going to get something awesome anyway, who cares what it is that they make next!

I'm torn. On the one hand I would like to see a sequel because the first game was great, but with their other team doing Uncharted that would mean having to wait 3 years absolute minimum for a new IP.

If there is a sequel, they should reverse the roles from the first game, make Ellie the main character looking after Joel, because he must be pretty old by the end of the first game.

Stop making games all together until you can come up with something that isn't as linear as a piece of string.

I honestly dont see how they could top the first one if they made a sequel, i say they should make a new IP.

NEW IP!

Game of the Generation satã hi

OP. Tive more perfection NG.

Its going to happen. It was too great and made too much money to pass up.

Mulling

" Can we tell people a story that's really worth telling, and that's not repeating itself? And if we can't, where can we get inspired - what is something that's really going to challenge us, and push storytelling in this medium forward?"

This is the best news form the article. If you can't make a sequel that's better than the first one, don't make one.

Well as long as it doesn't feature Ellie and Joel in the story then that's fine, their story is done. A whole new bunch of characters would be great for The Last of Us 2.