Shuhei Yoshida Played The Last of Us Online and Says 'It was Great' - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 March 2025 / 2,692 Views
The former President of Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida with the Sacred Symbols + podcast revealed he had played the Naughty Dog's The Last of Us Online and revealed "it was great."
"The idea for The Last of Us Online came from Naughty Dog and they really wanted to make it," said Yoshida (via PushSquare). "But Bungie explained [to them] what it takes to make live service games, and Naughty Dog realised, 'Oops, we can't do that! If we do it, we can't make Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet.' So that was a lack of foresight."
He added, "From my experience, when studios see the company has a big initiative, [they realise] riding on that gives them a better chance of getting a project approved and supported. It’s not like [current PS Studios boss Hermen Hulst] is telling teams they need to make live service games, it’s likely mutual."
Naughty Dog ended up cancelling The Last of Us Online in December 2023. The studio last December did announce Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet for the PlayStation 5, which has been in development since 2020.
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I will never forgive them for this. They could have just updated Factions for TLOU2 and it would have been well received.
Naughty Dog didn't have to continue supporting it. With the thousands of employees across Sony and many other gaming companies that have been fired, it wouldn't have been that hard to form another studio to take over for it if it was truly something special.
"it wouldn't have been that hard to form another studio to take over for it if it was truly something special."
Naughty Dog has a bad history of that not working out.
This is all the fault of the prick spencer. If he had never bought activision deal, sony never would have bought bungie for billions, and we'd have had tlou online game by now. Think about that.
This was probably the best of the bunch of their recent live service portfolio, not counting Helldivers of course. Should have pivoted to this one with ND handing over the reins to someone else once the bones were there.
They dont have a lot of employees to continually run a live service game,
It was going to be a disaster at launch with multiple servers running
