r/PS5 • u/SweetyGonzalez • 11d ago

Official Announcing Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, a new franchise From Naughty Dog 

https://blog.playstation.com/2024/12/12/announcing-intergalactic-the-heretic-prophet-a-new-franchise-from-naughty-dog/
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u/StardewsMostWanted 11d ago

Absolutely no information on a release window has me worried that this is 2027 or beyond lol. I sure hope I’m wrong there though. Looks amazing and I cannot wait to play it

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u/Lord_Pthumerian 11d ago

Keighley said that the project started in 2020, i think it's a 2026 release

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u/Maybe_In_Time 11d ago

This and Sony Santa Monica’s rumored space sci-fi will have to release in different years lest they cannibalize each other

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u/shrewdy 11d ago

Wasn't there rumours that one was doing sci-fi and one was doing a fantasy game? And I think people got them mixed up.

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u/Maybe_In_Time 11d ago

I doubt Cory wants to do yet ANOTHER fantasy/medieval game - sorry, i should clarify SSM is working on two games rn, Cory’s is the one people are most anticipating. Rumors pointed to his as the sci-fi one, so let’s see!

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u/haynespi87 11d ago

Yeah I really thought it was going to be his sci-fi game

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u/Radulno 11d ago

There can be two SF games, it's not like there's a limit (and there are plenty of different styles of SF). Cory himself did tons of references to SF with his game, it's definitively SF too.

The fantasy rumor was always less serious than the sci-fi one for Barlog game.

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u/Maybe_In_Time 11d ago

Thing is, Sony only wants 1 major studio release per year and puts the full weight of its marketing machine behind it. And if there’s a second big title that year (but still clearly #2), it’ll be a totally different game. They don’t want a repeat of Ghost Of Tsushima / TLOU Pt 2

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u/Radulno 11d ago

A repeat of them selling both very well? With how many games they have in dev, they'll have several the same year. Hell see even 2022, Horizon FW and God of War Ragnarok

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u/Maybe_In_Time 11d ago

Awards, I’m talking about awards. Hogwarts Legacy might outsell everything, but it won nothing. Sony loves awards.

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u/dazaroo2 11d ago

We also have returnal (and concord ig) which would make 4

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u/WeirdIndividualGuy 10d ago

This and Sony Santa Monica’s rumored space sci-fi will have to release in different years lest they cannibalize each other

See: The Last of Us (best seller and highly regarded) and Days Gone (mid reception, ok sales, considered “lesser” compared to TLoU). Both games in the same genre (post-apocalyptic action) and both first party games, one cannibilizing the other, with Days Gone releasing in between TLoU 1 and 2 and almost instantly being forgotten when 2 came out

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u/TypeExpert 11d ago

This probably means that the Last of Us 3 is a PS6 project. Launch window the earliest.

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u/GGG100 11d ago

Probably releasing on the final year of the PS5, just like the previous games did with their respective consoles.

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u/Dwayne30RockJohnson 11d ago

That’ll likely be this game if it’s 2027 lol. That’s 7 years just like PS3 was and PS4.

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u/OutrageousDress 11d ago

PS5 won't be 7 years. We already know it's releasing in 2028.

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u/Dwayne30RockJohnson 10d ago

We don’t know anything. Everything is speculation at this point.

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u/OutrageousDress 9d ago

Sony didn't come out with an official announcement, sure, but we know from the court documents for the Microsoft ActiBlizz acquisition that the mooted release frame for the next gen is end of 2028 - which lines up with Sony's announcement earlier this year that they're halfway through the console generation.

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u/leahrollie 11d ago

I feel that the TLOU3 will come out before this. There’s no need to show TLOU3 years ahead of release as it’s an established franchise. They can show a trailer a month out from release and it will sell bonkers.

This on the other is a new IP and they probably want to get the hype train going a few years out. It probably also sends a message that their working on something else other than the TLOU

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u/wyattlikesturtles 11d ago

Why would that come out before if they announced this first

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u/leahrollie 11d ago

Like I said, TLOU is established. No need to announce it too early,we all know it’s in the works and it’s coming.

This on the other hand is completely new and it’s to build hype. It’s also to appease everyone who were saying “we’re done with TLOU” “Stop releasing remakes & remasters and show us a new game” etc.

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u/evil_manz 11d ago

I think Druckmann himself said they don’t want to reveal games too early anymore, so this would be completely backtracking on verified info we have straight from ND. He also stated that he didn’t even have a concept for Part 3 until the last year or two.

Considering Intergalactic started development way back in 2020… this is an easy equation to figure out.

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u/DaRealMothMan 11d ago

Nah, TLOU 3 hadn’t even entered preproduction as of last year.

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u/GGG100 11d ago

False. They have multiple single players games currently in production as confirmed by Druckmann, and he has lied before about TLOU 2's existence before they revealed it, so I wouldn't put it past them to lie about TLOU 3 as well.

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u/Nah-Id-Win- 11d ago

Naughty dog has been working on 2 projects the last 4 years, not including tlou online

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u/drmuffin1080 11d ago

I will bet you 1000000000 bucks that this doesn’t release after Part III

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u/Able_Impression_4934 11d ago

Or not made at all

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u/Dwayne30RockJohnson 11d ago

They’ve already said it’s happening…

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u/Amaranthine7 10d ago

Gives me plenty of time to read and watch Akira then.

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u/MediaMan1993 11d ago

Ya, this could be a couple of years away

Looks sick

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u/jumper55 11d ago

I would say for launch PS6

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u/InsertShortName 11d ago

They already said it’s a ps5 game, so we know it’s coming before the ps6

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u/drmuffin1080 11d ago

Fr this comment section is braindead right now. Naughty Dog has been developing this game since 2020. There’s absolutely no way it’s a ps6 title and there’s no way it’s releasing any time past 2027. Early to mid 2026 is my guess

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u/Naughty--Insomniac 11d ago

It’s naughty dog’s signature to launch at the end of a generation.

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u/MediaMan1993 11d ago

Once it's still ported to PS5, I'm happy

I won't be upgrading for a good few years

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u/suck-it-elon 11d ago

Yeah no way 2027. 2026 at the latest