Naughty Canine’s Neil Druckmann has revealed The Final of Us 3 or a sequel with a unique identify will not be a certainty for the time being regardless of the success of the earlier video games and the continued HBO TV sequence. It will likely be as much as the studio to determine whether or not they need to proceed the franchise, which they’ll do in the event that they “can give you a compelling story”.
The Final of Us 2 already has “a really robust ending”
If Naughty Canine decides to not proceed with a sequel like The Final of Us 3, Druckmann looks like The Final of Us 2 has “a really robust ending” and that it might function the conclusion to the franchise. He informed BuzzFeed that the one method the franchise would proceed is that if they “can give you a compelling story that has this common message and assertion about love” and if they will’t do that then the franchise will come to an finish:
With The Final of Us, it’s as much as us whether or not we need to proceed it or not. Our course of is identical factor we did after we did Half 2, which is that if we will give you a compelling story that has this common message and assertion about love — identical to the primary and second sport did — then we are going to inform that story. If we will’t give you one thing, now we have a really robust ending with Half 2 and that would be the finish.
Druckmann additionally clarified that Sony will not be placing any stress on the studio to ship a sequel regardless of the success of the earlier video games. Rumors had beforehand claimed The Final of Us 3 was already in manufacturing on the studio, however these have been swiftly debunked by Druckmann himself. In the meantime, the HBO TV sequence has not formally been renewed for season 2 though the crew is planning to inform the whole lot of TLoU Half 2 whether it is.