{"id":733267,"date":"2026-06-29T17:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/733267\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T17:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:45:09","slug":"rumour-naughty-dog-chose-to-remake-the-last-of-us-1-for-ps5-instead-of-uncharted-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/733267\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumour: Naughty Dog Chose to Remake The Last of Us 1 for PS5 Instead of Uncharted 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Rumour:<\/a><\/p>\n

Sony and Naughty Dog get a lot of stick for how much focus they put on The Last of Us<\/a>, but it seems as though they at least entertained the idea of revisiting Uncharted<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the Sacred Symbols podcast<\/a>, YouTuber Michael Kemp \u2014 who made that video dissecting Amy Hennig’s version<\/a> of Uncharted 4<\/a> \u2014 says Naughty Dog was planning to remake Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune<\/a> for PS5 before pivoting to The Last of Us Part I<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He alleges the studio, along with PlayStation’s Visual Arts Support Group, was working on it as early as 2018.<\/p>\n

Apparently, they remade an early cutscene from Uncharted 1 using up-to-date visuals as part of a pitch for the project \u2014 but it was decided the game would need much more than a graphical upgrade to bring it up to modern standards, and so The Last of Us was chosen instead.<\/p>\n

“They remade that [scene], basically with Uncharted 4’s graphics as a test, and they presented that and went, ‘We could do this.’ I don’t know if they got approved or not, but then they realised, okay, Uncharted 1 needs a bit more modernisation in terms of the levels and set-pieces. So they decided, ‘No, we’ll not do that, we’ll do one that needs a little bit less modernising,’ and that’s how they ended up with The Last of Us [remake].”<\/p>\n

This tallies with previous insider information<\/a>, as well as a report from Bloomberg<\/a> (paywalled).<\/p>\n

Adding to all this is that Uncharted-related files show up within The Last of Us 2; a couple of years back, a dataminer made this discovery and shared the results on Reddit:<\/p>\n

Uncharted Remake was\/is in the works. All datamined from a 2020 build of TLOU 2.<\/a>
by
\nu\/Cold-Ad3330<\/a> in
\nuncharted<\/a><\/p>\n

So, if all this is true, the question now is whether Sony will return to this Uncharted 1 remake project. I could see it happening eventually; I don’t know whether the movie sequel<\/a> is still happening, but that seems like a good opportunity to release a “new” Uncharted at the same time.<\/p>\n

Would you like to see the original Uncharted game get a remake? Tell us in the comments section below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sony and Naughty Dog get a lot of stick for how much focus they put on The Last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1015,9354,1014,74,275376],"class_list":["post-733267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ps5","tag-rumours","tag-sony","tag-technology","tag-uncharted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}