The Last of Us CEO believes it is more important to create AAA games under new intellectual property than licenses
Recently it became known that Disney has entered into contracts with Bethesda Softworks and Ubisoft. According to the agreements, the first company will release a game about Indiana Jones, and the second will create a project in the Star Wars universe. The announcements of these new products were enthusiastically received by journalist and TGA founder Geoff Keighley. But the head of The Last of Us, Bruce Straley, objected, as he advocates AAA games on new intellectual property.
In a personal microblog, Jeff Keighley wrote: “Several great studios are making games under license: Respawn is working on [the sequel] Jedi: Fallen Order, IO is working on 007, Machine / Bethesda is working on the Indiana Jones project, and Massive is busy with the new Star Wars universe. ”. What combination of studio and franchise do you dream of seeing one day? “
Bruce Straley replied to Jeff Cayley’s message: “None. We need all this talent and money to focus on creating new content, new IP games and AAA innovation. ” Kayleigh agreed with the remark of the head of The Last of Us development, but noted that breakthrough ideas can be implemented in projects under licenses.
Bruce Straley left Naughty Dog in 2017 after 18 years of work, and in early 2018 he spoke about the reasons for this decision.
