Degene onder ons die het gouden tijdperk van de PlayStation 2 hebben meegemaakt zullen zich de Jak and Daxter games nog maar al te goed herinneren. Naughty Dog’s cartoony game serie was enorm populair door de rijke wereld, het toffe verhaal, de gekke wapens en natuurlijk de twee hoofdpersonages. Sinds de release van de PS3 wachten fans en gamers al op een PS3-versie van Jak and Daxter. Gameinformer interviewde Co-president Evan Wells van Naughty Dog en bracht het Jak and Daxter onderwerp naar boven.

In het interview legt Wells uit dat Naughty Dog uitgebreid gekeken heeft naar alle mogelijkheden om Jak and Daxter te rebooten. Ze kwamen alleen tot de conclusie dat ze de technieken van Uncharted niet konden toepassen op Jak and Daxter en dat het team op dit moment niet de game zou kunnen afleveren die de fans willen. Ze sluiten een nieuwe Jak and Daxter absoluut niet uit en ze zijn op het moment aan het kijken hoe de serie moet gaan veranderen. Tot die tijd zullen we het nog even moeten doen met Uncharted en The Last of us.

“We’d all talked about it in interviews with fans asking, ‘When’s the next Jak and Daxter?’ I don’t know if this is going to make them happy or sad, but we did explore the idea fairly extensively. Something that we talked about early on was, ‘Let’s go back and apply what we’ve learned on the Uncharted games to Jak and Daxter.’ It’s one of the franchises that’s near and dear to us, and, in all honesty, we’d like to somehow honor.
 

“But as we started exploring this and looking at ways we could evolve the game and apply the same narrative techniques that we had leveraged to good effect in the Uncharted series and bring the technology forward and allow us to render in a more realistic style like we were able to do in Uncharted, all the ideas just started to feel like they were going so far away from what made Jak and Daxter Jak and Daxter. Even if we felt like we’re going to give the fans another Jak and Daxter, we felt we weren’t going to give them the game that they wanted. We would end up limiting the direction that the company had this passion for while simultaneously not creating the game that fans wanted. We just realized we were going to just do everybody a disservice. So at that point the conversations started to move in new directions.

 

“Now is not the time. Never say never. It could happen. Naughty Dog’s got a long history and I think it’s got a long future, so to say well never go back is kind of crazy. But right now we’ve got this new IP that we’re definitely going to be supporting. I guess there’s a possibility that the Uncharted Team could move on to Jak and Daxter. It’s still up in the air, but I wouldn’t think that’s going to happen because I think we’d run into all of the same problems with that team that we did with this team.”