Former PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida has said that he once played the now-cancelled 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Last of Us Online, which was apparently scrapped after Bungie explained to the developers "what it takes to make live seꦦrvice gಌames."

Shuhei Yoshida once led Sony Interactive Studios during some of its golden years, from 2008 to 2019, before helping indie teams on the platform. He's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:now💮 re🎃tired from PlayStation completely and is, l🎐uckily for us video game history nerds, spi🌜lling the beans on some lesser known stories.

), Yoshida looked back on 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Naughty Dog's scrapped spinꦛ-off that was aiming to turn the original Last of Us' unexpectedly great multiplayer mode, Factions, into a full-fat live service. Yoshida said𝔉 he "played the game and it was great."

That didn't stop Naughty Dog from pulling the plug on the game in 2023 to澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: instead wღorꦿk on multiple single-player projects, though.

"The idea for The Last of Us Online came from Naughty Dog and they really wanted to make it," he explained. "But Bungie explained [to the studio] what it takes to make live service games, and Naughty Dog realized, 'Oops, we can’t do that! If we do it, we can't make 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet.' So that was a lack of foresight."

There have been rumblings that Destiny makers Bungiಞe had something to do with the game's cancellation for a while, and this is our first confirmation from someone properly in the knꦫow. It also makes some sense, too. If The Last of Us Online did become the next big multiplayer hit, there's almost no way the studio could support never ending updates and development of its big single-player blockbusters at the same time - and there's even less of a chance that publisher Sony would want them to prioritize the latter.

While there was reportedly never any mandate that first-party studios had to chase the live service dragon, Yoshida also said developers had a much easier time of getting a project greenlit if it did include live service elements, so we're kinda just splitting hairs. "Riding on that gives them a better chance of getting a project ꧂approved and supported," he said.

Don't lose hope, though. There are tons of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:new games coming in 2025 and beyond.