Sucker Punch Has ‘No [Current] Plans’ to Make More Infamous or Sly Cooper Games
It’s not uncommon for a developer to mine an established series from its past through a remake, reboot, or sequel. However, that’s not in the cards for developer Sucker Punch Productions, as it recently stated that it currently has “no plans” to make more or games.
The team explained this in a post on its website talking about its 25th anniversary coming up in October. The post said that Sucker Punch is proud of ,, and, but the increased scale of its newest games require the “full attention” of the studio, meaning it doesn’t have the bandwidth for its legacy franchises right now.
“With our focus on our current project, we have no plans to revisit or right now, and no other studio is currently working on projects related to those franchises either. These characters are very special and near and dear to our hearts, so while we’d never say never to re-opening those doors down the road, for now there are no or games in development.”
The note at the end does mean that it’s possible that Sucker Punch could revisit them in the future, but that, if it ever does happen, won’t be for some time. It is at least keeping the servers up for longer (while also admitting that they will be turned off one day) and releasing the DLC for in more territories, which was previously only for those who, depending on the region, pre-ordered the game, bought the collector’s edition, or bought it separately after. is a mission that touches on what happened after with characters and cosmetics from that game.
has been quite successful, which could likely explain at least some of this decision. Along with being a critical darling, Sucker Punch announced in January 2022 that the game had sold over 8 million copies, a number that has likely grown in the
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