The creator of The Last of Us recently said that if the team at Naughty Dog doesn’t get new answers about where the characters should go when making another entry in a given franchise, it’s better to start working on a different game. The characters in The Last of Us are central to the game, as everything else revolves around their story, actions, and consequences, meaning these comments suggest that if the studio doesn’t figure out what to do with them in The Last of Us Part 3, it might as well focus on another project.