The Last of Us devs were originally going to reboot Jak and Daxter

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The Last of Us' creative director Neil Druckmann revealed that the game's development team was originally formed to reboot Naughty Dog's beloved Jak and Daxter series.
This reveal came out of Druckmann's IGDA keynote, where he explained that shortly after Uncharted 2 shipped, Naughty Dog decided to split its studio into two teams, with the second to be led by Uncharted 2 director Bruce Straley and Druckmann.
"We found the idea we were passionate about were kind of getting away from what Jak and Daxter was. We were questioning 'are we doing this for marketing reasons? Naming something Jak and Daxter, when it's not really Jak and Daxter? Or are are we really passionate about it?' And the answer is we felt like it was more for marketing... We felt like we weren't doing service to what the fans of this franchise really liked, even if our reinvention of Daxter was pretty damn good-looking."
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