LogInSony is building a new development team in partnership with PSS Visual Arts to create a new "high visibility project" developed in collaboration with Naughty Dog.
Sony revealed that it's building a new development team to work on a new unannounced AAA project in collaboration with Uncharted and The Last of Us developer Naughty Dog and Visual Arts, the PlayStation studio specialized in animation, motion capture, and cinematics.
The news comes courtesy of a job listing for a Senior Producer at PlayStation Global (first spotted by ResetEra user kostacurtas).
According to the job listing, the new development team will be created in partnership with Visual Arts, the studio that contributed to several The Last of Us games.
According to Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, Visual Arts also initially wanted to take on the development of The Last of Us remake in the hope of becoming a full-fledged game development studio. However, at the time, Sony had little faith in the studio's ability to develop an AAA game, so Naughty Dog became the main developer of the project, and Visual Arts only acted as a support studio.
The new game, which Sony refers to as a "high visibility project", will be developed in collaboration with Naughty Dog. While the company hasn't shared much on the new project, it noted that it has a "clear vision and plan to release."
"Using our existing expertise and premier talent, we will guarantee a high visual quality bar for the game and a compelling experience for our players," Sony wrote.
It remains to be seen, what kind of project this new unannounced title will be. Probably, it will be a live-service game, given Sony's ambition to release 12 live-service games by 2025 and its plans to make more investments in the PC, mobile, and live service segments.
It's worth noting that the last time when Naughty Dog and Visual Arts worked together, they came up with The Last of Us Part I. So, we probably should wait for another remake. However, this could be an entirely new project as well.
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