The Last of Us PS5 remake could release ‘this holiday’, according to a recent report

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The widely-rumored PS5 remake of The Last of Us could release as soon as “this holiday”, according to a recent report.

The report comes by way of GamesBeat’s Jeff Grubb as part of the the May 18 episode of the Kind of Funny Gamescast. “I keep hearing that’s coming out this year [...] The Last of Us remake this holiday, yes,” Grubb said during the episode. “I’m pretty confident about that too [...] I think it probably is one of their big holiday games this year.”

In response to the idea that this would be a speedy release for Naughty Dog, Grubb pointed out that “The Last of Us Part 2 came out a while ago” adding, “it’s a pretty efficient, well-oiled machine over at Naughty Dog and they wouldn’t have to do too much ‘cause that’s the whole point, is that this is a game that they could update really quickly.”

This isn’t the first we’ve heard reports of a potential latter half of 2022 release date for a PS5 remake of The Last of Us. It was back in January of this year that writer and industry insider, Tom Henderson, reported he had heard from multiple sources that the remake is “nearly finished”; a claim that was backed up by VGC, which said it had heard similar information from its own sources.

Even before that, a 2021 report from Bloomberg claimed that a PS5 remake of The Last of Us was in the works. In that report, it was said that Sony's Visual Arts studio had initially been working on the remake before Naughty Dog took over the project. That was quite a while ago now, though no potential release date was mentioned at that time.

There have been plenty of credible reports around the idea of a PS5 remake of The Last of Us but we still haven't heard anything official from PlayStation or Naughty Dog. A remake does, however, make