The Last of Us Remake Has No Business Being A Full Price Product
Naughty Dog is greedy. I suppose that adjective can be used to describe the majority of triple-A developers and publishers nowadays, with the smell of money proving far more alluring than exploring creative new ideas and pushing the medium forward. With Naughty Dog though, never has this been more obvious than with The Last of Us.
First launched in 2013, the narrative masterpiece has seen an official remaster on PS4, a sequel on PS4 that was patched to support improved performance on PS5, and now a complete remake set to arrive on PS5 in the coming months. It’s worth adding that we’ve had to fork out pennies for all but one of these titles by the way, with the performance patch being given out for free. How nice of Naughty Dog to treat us peasants with a bit of respect for once. Now back to grovelling.
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The remake itself isn’t surprising, but the fact Sony has the gall to charge $70 for a game that came out almost ten years ago that the developer itself has confirmed will leave the overall experience mostly untouched except for revamped visuals and enhanced combat is a pretty miserable sign of where the industry is at right now. The sad thing is that people will pay that price for it without complaint because The Last of Us is so widely regarded as a high watermark of the medium. In many ways this is true, but we should treat our monetary worth with a little more respect until this becomes normalised.
We should be paying no more than £40 for this, even more so when it doesn’t even include the online multiplayer. Naughty Dog is working on a live service title within the game’s universe set to arrive in the coming years, so I imagine any reminder of
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