Naughty Dog: Uncharted Collection Could do as Well as The Last of Us Remastered - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 07 October 2015 / 4,166 Views
Naughty Dog thinks that Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection could well prove to be just as popular as The Last of Us Remastered.
"I do, personally, expect the Uncharted Collection to do as well as The Last of Us Remastered," Naughty Dog’s community strategist, Eric Monacelli, told MCVUK.
"Company-wide, our studio loves it. They set the bar at [the studio porting the games to PS4] Bluepoint and did a really good job with everything – adding new features and making sure that everything looks good. So, yeah, our expectations are high for it. We hope it does quite well."
According to research conducted by Naughty Dog 80 percent of PlayStation 4 owners have never actually played an Uncharted game. before, which was a key reason for developing the collection.
"We did a lot of research and discovered that about 80 per cent of the people that own a PS4 have never played Uncharted, period," Monacelli noted. "That was one of the reasons why we thought remastering it would be a good idea."
"The other reason is we decided we wanted to do it; especially when we got The Last of Us Remastered done, we thought 'Oh man, this would be cool if we could go back.'"
Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection launched today in Europe and hits store shelves on Friday in North America for the PlayStation 4.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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I personally don't mind collections when they are like this as it's like getting a series box set.
I'm actually kind of surprised that the number was that high! 80% is >20 million ps4 owners
Since the PS4 launched far more successfully than the PS3, I would suspect a fair number of current PS4 owners have yet to experience the Uncharted series. And it's smart for Naughty Dog to launch this collection early in the PS4's lifespan before the console is flooded with titles normally associated with a successful console later in its lifespan.
