Do not maintain your breath for a brand new Sly Cooper recreation, in keeping with Sucker Punch’s Nate Fox.
It has been 12 years because the final Sly Cooper recreation, 2013’s Thieves in Time, and a staggering 20 years because the final Sucker Punch Sly recreation, 2005’s Sly 3: Honor Amongst Thieves. And in case these details alone aren’t sufficient to persuade you the studio has, for now not less than, moved on from Sly, simply hear what Fox needed to say in regards to the collection in a latest interview with MinnMax (queued up beneath).
For some context, host Ben Hanson requested Fox instantly what share of Sucker Punch could be right down to revive Sly Cooper, and Fox answered, “10%” to Hanson’s shock.
“It has been a very long time since Sly Cooper’s come out,” added Fox.
In fact, in the end Sony holds the rights to the Sly Cooper IP, and it is proven prior to now that it’s not averse to having different studios make Sly video games, so by no means say by no means. Nonetheless, it is discouraging however comprehensible listening to Fox put a lot distance between Sly and the studio that put the franchise on the map.
Sucker Punch is on monitor to launch Ghost of Yotei, the extremely anticipated follow-up to 2020’s Ghost of Tsushima, on October 2, and it has been feeling fairly darn good about that launch date ever since GTA 6 was delayed to Could 2026 – so good that it is nonetheless recovering from the hangover from its celebrations.