Bungie reportedly expressed concerns over how engaging The Last of Us multiplayer project was

Naughty Canine just lately shared that its multiplayer The Final of Us sport wanted “extra time,” however a brand new report claims this occurred on the suggestion of Bungie.

A multiplayer spinoff of The Final of Us has been within the works for some time now, with Naughty Canine confirming that it will be a stand-alone title final June. We have not heard a lot about it since then, and Naughty Canine shared earlier this week that’ll be some time longer earlier than we hear something extra. Within the type of these now basic apology/ delay announcement posts, the developer kind of leaned in direction of the latter in a latest Twitter publish. “We all know a lot of you could have been trying ahead to listening to extra about our The Final of Us multiplayer sport,” opens the assertion.

“We’re extremely happy with the job our studio has achieved up to now, however as improvement has continued, we have realised what’s greatest for the sport is to present it extra time. Our group will proceed to work on the venture, in addition to our different video games in improvement, together with a model new single-player expertise; we look ahead to sharing extra quickly.”

However based on a followup report from Bloomberg, it would not sound prefer it was Naughty Canine itself that realised the sport wanted extra time. In accordance with Bloomberg, Sony has been asking Bungie (the Future developer that Sony acquired final yr) to guage the varied dwell service video games the previous at present has in improvement. Bungie apparently flagged some considerations over The Final of Us multiplayer gamer with the ability to “preserve gamers engaged for a protracted time frame,” ensuing within the reassessment.

In flip, the group engaged on the venture has apparently been scaled again, with a small group staying on whereas Naughty Canine reevaluates the course. It must be famous the sport hasn’t been cancelled, however a lot of its builders are actually on different initiatives. In fact, this does increase questions over whether or not Sony can launch all 10 dwell service video games it had deliberate to by 2026.