Naughty Dog's Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet Reportedly Won't Launch in 2026 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 24 November 2025 / 6,968 Views
Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment and developer Naughty Dog at The Game Awards 2024 announced Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet for the PlayStation 5. The game has been in development since 2020.
Multiple gaming journalists have claimed the game will not release in 2026. This includes Bloomberg's Jason Schreier and Giant Bomb's Jeff Grubb.
Grubb on social media said the game won't be at The Game Awards 2025 next month and it won't be out in 2026. "...it won't be out in 2026 and it won't be at TGAs," stated Grubb.
Schreier in a Reddit post said, "Can assure you that Intergalactic is not coming out in 2026."
View the Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet announcement trailer below:
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So it will be a 7 year wait for a new, native PS5 Naughty Dog game wow.
We saw the entire original Uncharted trilogy in the span of 5 years and on the same console... And it was the most "difficult to develop" console ever, even. Now we can´t even have a ND game on PS5.
PS4 also had a respectable 3 ND games. Whilst Lost legacy was on the smaller side (so is Uncharted 1/3), Uncharted 4 and TLOU 2 were a lot bigger.
You´re absolutely right. And Uncharted 4 is nothing short of a miracle of a game. It still looks better than almost all new releases 10 years later, especially the facial animations. We may never know how much time did ND spent on the Factions live service... but nonetheless no single player game in the entire generation is disappointing.
Capcom has released Resident evil 2, 3, 4 remakes, 8, will release 9, devil may cry 5, street fighter 6, monster hunter wilds, and rise (with expansion) in between Red dead 2 and GTA 6; insomniac has released Miles Morales, Rift Apart, Spiderman 2 and even maybe Wolverine between red dead 2 and GTA 6 with a much smaller studio.
Games take longer to produce, yes, but also those companies you mention (aside CDP) have been in languish development cicles with Live service slop at the frontier of development and without any real output to show for, including of course ND.
I recall a time when games did not take nearly a decade to complete development. What has happened?
We all know that Factions was the cause of that which caused a delay of their single player development time. What Cosmic means is that Intergalactic wasn't in dev for nearly a decade and for KLAMarine to suggest that is a disingenuous take.
It started development straight after last of us part 2 in 2020. So roughly 7 years assuming it releases in 2027. They cancelled factions game to stop it from interfering with intergalactic.
And here I thought ND had multiple teams since 2011, like Insomniac, which is a smaller studio. Could be that Insomniac outsources a lot though. Since most studios take around 5 years for a SP game.
Video games are just too ambitious in scale and scope. "Short" and "linear" became dirty words. Everything has to be bigger and more epic and more cinematic. The big boys of the video games industry constantly act like they still have something to prove to other media, while more modest games are almost strictly the purview of indie devs.
Depends Insomniac is pumping out a lot of games, which are smaller and more linear compared to Horizon/God of War and they are pretty well loved.
Insomniac this gen will likely comfortably outselling both Guerilla and Santa Monica combined. Naughty Dog too if they don't hurry up.
Who actually cared for this game?
I think it looks good. Not sure why anyone would think it looks bad.
I think Naughty Dog still has a lot of goodwill from gamers in general, based on their back catalog.
I mean we haven't seen anything meaningful from it yet but It's Naught Dogs next game and people are going to be perched. Will be another 10m seller unless something goes terribly wrong
Exactly, ND is one of the top studios in the world and their games sell millions of copies. It's quite the silly comment.
So we are getting the last of us part 2 remake in 2026
Sony will already release Soros and Wolverine in 2026, maybe also Marathon. So it's not like Sony needs to release this game ASAP.
When it’s based on whoever the fuck says it and it’s not from the actual company making the game, it’s not reportedly. It’s allegedly.
Hope that helps.
Expected. Naughty Dog is now getting to the point where they release one new game a generation.
Even PS4 got 3 games, even if as Qwark said one (Lost Legacy) was a smaller game.
I don't want games rushed or employees overworked, but there has to be a solution to this. So many AAA developers only release 1-2 games a generation now compared to 2-4 in the past.
Expected
"said the game won't be at The Game Awards 2025 next month" Why would it be? Sony have announced it already, save gameplay and stuff for their own State of Play sometime?
Anyway, what are their sources?
some journalists extracted a fragment of Colin Moriarty´s podcast in which he said "I think the game´s concept is finished" which they mistakenly interpreted as "the content of the game is finished" and spread the rumor. As per that rumor, if that were the case, It would have made sense to see new gameplay or news soon. But it was all just bad journalism.
Well that's a shame we shall stick with remakes and remasters then lol
when it is released it will be a quality release
Sony pretty much confirmed this already in the financial report, when they stated Wolverine as being the big PS5 release for the upcoming fiscal year. Sony has mostly relied on one heavy-hitter every year during the PS5 generation, so this checks out.
That said, I’d wager to bet 2027. Would be surprised if they push it much further than that; the game was revealed in 2024.
