Neil Druckmann, creative director of the Naughty Dog game, explains why a trial version of the title will not be released on PS4.
The indefinite delay of The Last of Us Part 2 is one of the news with the greatest impact on the PlayStation community so far this year. The highly anticipated Naughty Dog title, originally planned for February, will also not be released on May 29; This time not because the Californian team needs more time but because of the severity of the coronavirus and the logistical problems that it implies. Neil Druckmann, vice president of the company and creative director of the game, has explained why there will not be a demo to calm the wait.
A demo involves more work and resources; Now it's not the moment
“It's like you're starting from scratch if you want to do that demo, and it's a massive amount of work, a tremendous amount of work that we don't want to put our team through now. We prefer to put our focus on finishing the real game and giving it to the people, ”develops the creative in an interview with the PlayStation Blogcast podcast (# 359), which he describes as“ frustrating ”the situation.
"It is very different when you have a demo of the game that you can launch at a fair or a press event, where you can have people from Naughty Dog watching and making sure that everything works correctly," he says. “Actually, when we did that demonstration to the press (last September), we had the entire game on disk and cut a portion so that people could play it; but that is not something you can do when you send it to everyone through the PSN… there must be security measures in between ”, he continues explaining.
According to Druckmann, they will try to launch the game for sale "as soon as possible", because after knowing the delay in voice of Sony Interactive Entertainment along with that of Marvel's Iron-Man VR, a new date was not established in the calendar. In between, except for surprise, a demo will not be released, nor the one that the press could test last September with two sections of about 90 minutes each (FreeGameTips was there).
Neil Druckmann, according to the news, said on Twitter that the situation of this delay is "out of our control", since Sony does not want to put on sale in May a video game that they will not be able to distribute with guarantees and a sale only in Digital would entail millionaire losses.
The Last of Us Part 2 will be released exclusively for PlayStation 4 when it is finished "as soon as we can" and can be sold without being affected by COVID-19.
