Wells said: “At the end of Uncharted 2, Bruce Straley and Neil Druckmann went off to start designing The Last of Us, although they did spend a good, solid three or four months working on Jak and Daxter before they decided to shelve it and focus on something new.”Įlsewhere in the interview, Wells claimed that the projects Naughty Dog decides to work on are “really driven by the team”, and suggested that this means the studio is likely to gravitate towards new types of games, rather than endless sequels. Naughty Dog had briefly worked on a PSP title following the completion of Uncharted 2, but that game was ultimately cancelled and passed over to High Impact Games, who created The Lost Frontier (2009). Despite an HD collection on the PS3 and Vita in 2012 and a similar re-release bundle on PS4 in 2017, there hasn’t been a new game in the series in 12 years. Three main Jak & Daxter games were released on the PlayStation 2 in the early 2000s, followed by a racing spin-off and a couple of handheld adventures. “But we still love the characters and I see what you guys are doing with Ratchet and that makes me wish that we did, and we would have one in development, because there’s still a lot of love for Jak & Daxter in the studio.” Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy First Released PlayStation 2 PlayStation. The games are story-based platformers that feature a mixture of action, racing and puzzle solving. “And I hate to break it to them, we do not have Jak & Daxter here in development right now.” Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy 59.85 at Amazon GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The first game, Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, released on December 3, 2001, was one of the earliest titles for the PlayStation 2, and is regarded as a defining franchise for the console.

2009’s Jak & Daxter: The Lost Frontier on PSP and PS2 was the last completely new game in the series. “We’ve had a couple of Twitter campaigns where people have been tweeting us every single day ‘I want a new Jak & Daxter, I want a new Jak & Daxter’, and they aren’t just simple 280-character tweets, they have Photoshopped memes and everything they’re including on a daily basis, and the effort has got to be significant. Speaking during a chat with Insomniac‘s Ted Price as part of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Science’s Game Maker’s Notebook series (transcribed by VGC), Evan Wells was asked if Naughty Dog continues to get fan requests for a new Jak & Daxter game. The co-president of Naughty Dog has made it clear that the studio isn’t currently working on a new game in the Jak & Daxter series.

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