Naughty Dog have dropped a trailer revealing how The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered will perform on the PlayStation 5 Pro console that’s available for £700/$700 without a disc drive or stand, both of which are sold separately.
While this latest update to The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered is free, you can’t blame people for mocking Sony and Naughty Dog for the number of times the two games in the Last of Us series has so far been either remastered or remade. So far, beginning with the original on PlayStation 3, we have had:
The Last of Us, The Last of Us Remastered, The Last of Us Part 2, The Last of Us Part 1 (a remake of the first game), The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered and now, albeit a free update, The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered Enhanced.
However, what perhaps is most shocking in all of this, is the that Naughty Dog have called the PlayStation 5 Pro update an “emotional journey rather than a technical one”. We understand that the job of trailers is to sell you a product, but this belittling language to anyone unable to or unwilling to upgrade to the PlayStation 5 Pro is incredibly unprofessional, and smacks of Naughty Dog having a somewhat inflated ego.
In an ever increasingly expensive hobby, in an ever increasingly expensive world, where there was already legitimate questions around the need for a pro console this generation, and the fact people aren’t necessarily in a position to make the jump to base PlayStation 5, which is resulting in an extended cross generation for new releases, these kinds of poor marketing decisions can easily come back to bite developers, publishers and console makers more so than in the past.
