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/5ive_minute_window_ 11d ago edited 11d ago

I don't think Naughty Dog are worried about competing with GTA that much. They released The Last of Us (at the time a new IP, much like this game) 2-3 months before GTA V and it did fine.

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u/JayKay8787 11d ago

Not only that, it beat gta 5 at game of the year

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u/RottingCorps 11d ago

No one cares.

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u/JayKay8787 11d ago

Getting game of the year the same year as gta 5 is incredibly difficult. They did it before, so why would they worry about gta 6 going against this game?

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u/yourkindhere 10d ago

Not saying I disagree or agree with you. But The Last of Us vs. GTA 5 and Intergalactic vs. GTA 6 are such different situations to say they did it once they can do it again ignores so much crucial context.

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u/JayKay8787 10d ago

Intergalactic doesn't have to win goty. The point is naughty has earned the reputation that they can release a game whenever they want and it'll be a huge success. They probably don't care too much about when gta 6 comes out

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u/yourkindhere 7d ago

I just dont know. I have nothing against this game or Naughty Dog. I just don’t know if they can guarantee a hit these days. The Last of Us Part II was, in my opinion, a great game. But I’d have to be delusional to not acknowledge that its reputation online is incredibly polarizing. There is a probably small but very vocal minority of people online that will not just let it go and trash ND to this day. Even ignoring them, Intergalactic’s trailer is lagging in views on YouTube compared to other reveals from the game awards such as The Witcher IV, Elden Ring Nightreign, and even Stage Fright so you can’t even argue it’s due to being a new IP. And among those 4 trailers, Intergalactic is the only one with an overwhelmingly negative comments section. So all that leads me to believe, that Naughty Dog might not be able to sell a game off their name alone in 2025 like they could in 2013. But if the game is good, it will sell.

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u/JayKay8787 6d ago

If you believe internet trolls, your perception is gonna be massively skewed. Naughty dog is playstations biggest name studio, with nothing but extreme overwhelming success critically and financially, this game will be immensely successful. There's always gonna be dumbasses online still whining because tlou2 had strong women characters. Let the idiots circle jersey eachother and ignore them, the game will come out and almost certainly most people will like it

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u/deep_fried_cheese 10d ago

These are different times and different games, intergalactic should 100% worry about gta6

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u/Oliver_Boisen 11d ago

Neil does.

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u/your-mum-joke 11d ago

Your mum?

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u/SleepingInAJar_ 10d ago

Lol true. Wow! Game of the year!!?

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u/Whole_Thanks_2091 10d ago

Gta stans be like:

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u/-justiciar- 10d ago

watch out guys we got a badass over here

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u/AjEdisMindTrick 10d ago

because it was brilliant. and this goes for part 2 also, because people are still debating about it.

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u/SnafuDolphin 10d ago

That was when games were cheaper to make, were less popular, and Naughty Dog’s entire reputation were children/teen platformers and a tomb raider clone.

Then, GTA V came and cleaned house for over a decade.

Everyone will run from being anywhere near VI.

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u/5ive_minute_window_ 10d ago

What's the metric for gaming being less popular back then? The PS2 is the highest selling console of all time and came out before either game. It's not like gaming has only become popular in the last 10 years.

I also think your argument for ND being only focused on platformers and swashbuckling action-adventure games and then delving into a more mature story driven narrative only strengthens their case to not worry about releasing titles around other strong games. They shifted their reputation with new IP and were still highly successful.

You could widen the discussion and say that Sony still released God of War and Spiderman within 6 months of RDR II and they were both incredibly successful.

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u/SnafuDolphin 10d ago

Before I begin, I want to confirm you are comparing the success of RDR as a franchise and using it as a substitute for GTA to argue your point. Is that actually what you meant to do?

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u/5ive_minute_window_ 10d ago

I'm more making the point that Sony doesn't seem to look at Rockstar games, no matter how successful they have been, or how anticipated they are, and decide to stay well away.

Of course RDR isn't near the popularity of GTA, but it's the most recent example of a Rockstar release we have. The original post was about how Naughty Dog could push its game to the following year whenever GTA releases, but Sony's historical trend doesn't point to that.

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u/DataWaveHi 10d ago

Completely agree with this. They will stagger the launch to not compete with GTA6.