PlayStation has benefited from the mammoth exclusive launch of Ghost of Yotei—the follow-up to Ghost of Tsushima. Now, Sucker Punch is already looking ahead to a potential Sly Cooper or Infamous game as the next project.
Aside from 1999’s forgotten Rocket: Robot On Wheels, the American-based team known as Sucker Punch Studios got its career firmly on track with 2001’s Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus. This led to a further two Sly games (the fourth being handled by Sanzaru Games), before moving onto the inFamous franchise. 2009 to 2014 saw five separate inFamous experiences, and then it was time for Ghost of Tsushima.
Once Ghost of Yotei‘s Legends multiplayer update has been added, Sucker Punch is weighing up what to do next.
“Going Back To Sly” A Serious Possibility For Sucker Punch Studios
In an interview with VideoGamer, Sucker Punch studio head and co-founder Brian Fleming said: “Whatever we do next, whether it’s continuing Ghost or going back to Sly, the decision is really more limited by, again, our cherishing of focus and time to iterate, which means that we really can only do one thing at a time”.
Fleming indicates that despite the studio’s size, it can’t do more than one project at a time.
This follows an interview with GameInformer, where Ghost of Yotei co-creative director Nate Fox said he “Would love Sucker Punch to work on more InFamous.” Again, whatever the company decides, it will likely be the only piece of media the studio develops for a few years.
Sucker Punch Productions has steadily become one of the most prolific and premium game studios in the world. You never hear bad words or controversy about it, and the company goes about its business creating one incredible game after another. With the main bulk of Ghost of Yotei’s development complete—aside from post-launch content—the future could be interesting.
What do you think? Will Sucker Punch listen to the old-school fans crying out for a new Sly or inFamous game? Is a new ‘Ghost’ game to make a trilogy a given? More importantly, what do you want to see from the incredible studio? Share all your thoughts and more through the Insider Gaming Forum.
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Why the change they previously said they do not want to return to those IP? Most of the staff from those games left and last Sly game was another studio