Naughty Dog’s Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet Reportedly Won’t Make 2026, Neil Druckmann Tells IGN ‘We Are Playing It at the Office and It's Incredible’

With the hold for The Witcher 4 acceptable to caput into 2027, it’s a akin communicative for Naughty Dog’s precocious announced Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet.

Bloomberg newsman Jason Schreier took to ResetEra to accidental neither The Witcher 4 nor Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet volition beryllium retired adjacent year.

That means similar The Witcher 4, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet volition beryllium released successful 2027 astatine the earliest. And, similar The Witcher 4, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet volition look questions astir whether oregon not it’s targeting the PlayStation 5 oregon the inevitable PlayStation 6, or, possibly astir likely, is simply a cross-gen game.

If Intergalactic heads consecutive to PS6, Naughty Dog faces the imaginable of having skipped the PS5 procreation successful presumption of marque caller games. So far, the workplace has released ports, remasters, and remakes connected Sony’s current-gen console, including The Last of Us Part II, Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection, The Last of Us Part I, and The Last of Us Part II Remastered.

Naughty Dog revealed Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet astatine The Game Awards 2024. It features a star-studded formed that includes Tati Gabrielle from the Uncharted movie arsenic protagonist Jordan A. Mun, and Kumail Nanjiani of Marvel's Eternals arsenic a antheral called Colin Graves.

But fans person analysed the trailer, below, to portion unneurotic the remainder of the cast, and though it focuses connected conscionable a mates of characters, a photograph of what appears to beryllium a unit revealed adjacent more.

Earlier this month, The Last of Us manager Neil Druckmann shared much details astir Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet.

In an interrogation with Alex Garland, the writer of zombie movie 28 Days Later, Druckmann talked candidly astir the improvement process, confirming Intergalactic had been successful the works for 4 years already.

"I gag astir this with the team. We made a game, The Last of Us 2, we made definite originative decisions that got america a batch of hate. A batch of radical emotion it, but a batch of radical hatred that game," Druckmann said, to which Garland joked: "Who gives a shit?"

"Exactly," Druckmann added. "But the gag is like, you cognize what, let's bash thing that radical won't attraction arsenic overmuch astir — let's marque a crippled astir religion and religion."

Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet takes spot successful an alternate humanities timeline and features a "pretty salient religion," too, which has "changed and bastardized and evolved" implicit the years.

"This full religion takes spot connected this 1 planet, and past astatine 1 point, each connection stops," Druckmann teased. "And you're playing a bounty huntsman that's chasing her bounty, and she clang lands connected this planet.

"So galore of the erstwhile games we've done, there's always, like, an state with you," helium said. "I truly privation you to beryllium mislaid successful a spot that you're truly confused astir what happened here, who are the radical here, what was their history. And successful bid to get disconnected this satellite — again, nary 1 has been heard from this satellite for 600 years oregon truthful — if you ever person hoped to person a accidental to get off, you person to fig retired what happened here."

Assuming Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet releases successful 2027, and taking into relationship Druckmann’s remark astir it being successful improvement for 4 years truthful far, by the clip the crippled comes retired it volition person been successful the works for six years.

It’s a beauteous agelong wait, but speaking to IGN connected the reddish carpet up of The Last of Us Season 2 premiere, Druckmann said that Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is not lone playable close now, but “really good.”

“I volition accidental we are playing it astatine the bureau and it's incredible,” Druckmann teased. “It's truly good. I'm truthful excited to yet enactment gameplay retired into the satellite and amusement radical astir it, due to the fact that we conscionable showed you the very, very, precise extremity connected the iceberg. The crippled goes beauteous heavy beyond that.”

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