It’s going to be real interesting when we finally hear the full story

The director did an interview about this game

TLOU Factions development lasted for 7 years (So started after Uncharted 4 concluded)
When covid started and people working at home started playing a lot more online games with their friends, Sony and all other publishers put a lot of money into Online game which increased Factions budget considerably
In 2022/2023 people came back to work at the office and online gaming engagement dropped considerably, and investment in gaming dropped in turn.
How Vinit positions it, it became essentially a question of "are we making this game, or are we making Neil's next game Intergalactic", which kinda reaffirms ND's statement that the support needed to maintain the game was too high to actually be able to make new games.
At the point of cancellation, the game was around 80% complete.

He doesn't go into detail as to what the game was, but he compares real life events as the inspirations for the game, in a way that to me sounds a lot like an Extraction Shooter, essentially fighting each other for resources.

He now owns a game studio in Japan, and is making a new game with a 90s anime aesthetic, is gritty and mature but with that anime styling.

Last very interesting thing he mentioned: After the cancellation he stayed at Naughty Dog for another year, working as a "Game Director on one of their future games", way he put it did not sound like Intergalactic to me at all. ND have also previously said when Factions was cancelled that they have 2 SP games in development.

covid ruined the world tbh

this game would have done 10x better than all their current online offerings

did they think people were going to stay at home forever? the insane investment into what would have and was a temporary pandemic.

every decision i hear about this game tells me there was no future forsight. they just wanted fortnite money.

"they realize they would have to support it" They didn't think this from the beggining?????

In 2023 people went back to work. So they dropped investment of this game, but continued pushing all the other online games.

Naughty Dog bit more than they could chew for an online mode.

Sony should have just kept funding it.

Jason vouches but infers its really just 4 years

Cuckaman*

per the interviews its sony that pushed money into it and then cancelled it not cuckman.... Sony decreased budgets all around and made it so they could only support 1 game, so they chose to cancel factions and not intergalactic

I will always say they did too much for what should have been a side portion.

You could take the added Rogue Lite mode and make it PVP.

Cancelling this game 24 hours before public reveal is cut throat. No wonder he got depressed.

br mode would've did numbers they fumbled so hard lol

Truth finally coming to light and you see why I was so mad

Keep waiting

It’s obviously in pre-production already and it’s using ideas from the cancelled multiplayer for sure, as to how long production will take who knows. Could be out in late ps6 generation.

Bonkers cope last of us 3 if it’s coming isn’t coming for 4 years at least

7 years in dev
80% done
Rug pulled 24 hours before reveal
All because bungie

So by ND timeline it will be 15 years until it comes out

I said keep waiting because he said that 2.5 years ago . Not being a multiplayer gamer when Sony is still trying to crack that . Marathon isn’t quite doing what they wanted either

four years? easily 8-10 years away

Told yall it was playable and more viable than what is dropping

4 years? rookie numbers

that s*** aint coming till 2035

lol I didn’t want to hurt the poor boy . The fact that single player gamers say “ shrug I don’t like multiplayer like that” . When we pay for ps plus a large fortune is so goofy to me . Fine you don’t like multiplayer but others are paying 20$ a month for it man it’s okay to want some games you enjoy playing with others .

I can’t tell maxxing that cause maxxing gonna say “ I’ve worked on a game that came out 4 years after pre production while they worked on another new ip “

Mind you this was supposed to launch in 2020 with last of us 2
Then factions 1 was going to be remade with the remake . Iron galaxy was working on that too

They got thrown under the bus for the port pc when really that was partially out of their control

Is this not the point of studios like blueprint under Sonys wing tho, like let naughty dog cook the game and then have some intern company maintain it with updates and content