Naughty Dog Comes Clean on The Last of Us 2

The Last of Us

The writer and creative director of The Last of Us explained the reason why all the chatter about a sequel was everywhere in an interview with Official Playstation Magazine

"When Bruce (Straley, game director) and I moved to Uncharted 4, we were brainstorming ideas for The Last of Us 2 with new characters; ideas for TLOU 2 with Joel and Ellie; ideas for a sci-fi game; ideas for a fantasy game and building prototypes for each ideas. And just as we were getting close to narrowing the list down, we were asked to work on +Uncharted 4: A Thief's End ."

Neil Druckman continued. "You know, there's a part of me that's really looking forward to going back to those things, but I have no cycles left in my mind even to be thinking about that right now."

Regular Naughty Dog voice actor Nolan North mentioned that The Last of Us 2 was in the works in June and Druckman quelled such talk explaining. "So I guess he (Nolan North) was kind of right in that we were working on stuff we don't know what we are doing next and we don't know until probably a few months after we finish Uncharted 4."