Developed by Naughty Dog, The Last of Us Online, which has been highly anticipated for a long time, was canceled last year. Sony official Shuhei Yoshida said in a statement why the game was shelved and how the studio made this decision.

Shuhei Yoshida said in a statement on the issue that The Last of Us Online project is his own idea of ​​Naughty Dog, but the studio faces some difficulties in the process of the process. Naughty Dog had to choose in the middle of two different projects.

Intergalactic: The Heetic Prophet became the new focus of Naughty Dog

Bungie, the developer of the Destiny series, told Naughty Dog about the processes to develop live service games. Following this, the studio has decided to cancel The Last of Us Online to get overweight on its single -player new game, Intergalactic: The Heetic Prophet.

After the cancellation decision taken in December 2023, Naughty Dog said in a statement that “we would be a studio focusing on completely live service games or we would continue to produce single -player story -oriented productions.” The studio did not want to disrupt this tradition because he has been wearing one -player games for many years and gave up the multiplayer project.

After the cancellation decision, Naughty Dog announced the new single -player game Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet. Developed for PlayStation 5, the game will be in the type of science fiction and will be the leading role in Tati Gabrielle. The game will focus on the character of Jordan A. Mun, an award hunter.