Comic Edition he took interview with Naughty Dog studio head Neil Druckmann. During this, they asked why the studio still hasn’t announced its next PS5 game.
In short, the studio does not want to restart the processing and crunch that was during the development of Uncharted 4 and The Last of Us Part 2.
We had early announcements for Uncharted 4 and The Last of Us Part 2, but it actually caused some of the work-life balance issues we sometimes had in the studio. We’ve delayed the announcement of the next game a bit, so we have more time to plan our schedule. We have The Last of Us multiplayer and another game in development that I won’t talk about.
Crunching causes ambitious studios like Naughty Dog to run into staffing problems, where talented developers give their all to a project, but can burn out by the end of development and leave the studio.
