As Ross puts it, 'There was a starting budget for Days Gone, which was big, but it’s not where we ended. Growing the company in this way made the game a lot more expensive than originally planned. We changed our number from 45 to something like 120.' Ross went onto mention that 'the calculus for Sony at this point is… when a game like Days Gone started, we were 45 people, we were walking around asking how we could build an open-world game with 45 people, and the answer was, we grew. That's one of the things where I don't wanna be the guy to be the official source for whatever that is.' I don't think it's publically confirmed, what the status of it is. I don't think that that's clear to the public. In a wide-ranging conversation that reacted explicitly to Schreier's Bloomberg report, Ross told Jaffe: 'I won't confirm the status of Days Gone 2. Although Ross has left Sony Bend and now works at NetherRealm Studios, you've got to assume that he still knows a lot about the fate of the Days Gone franchise. The director of Days Gone, Jeff Ross, appeared in a four-hour video on the YouTube channel of David Jaffe (director of the original God of War). Although the first game had been profitable, its development had been lengthy and critical reception was mixed, so a Days Gone 2 wasn’t seen as a viable option.'Īnd then, on 11th April, the plot thickened. In a report published by Bloomberg on 9th April, well-connected games journalist Jason Schreier said: 'Oregon-based Sony Bend, best known for the 2019 open-world action game Days Gone, tried unsuccessfully to pitch a sequel that year, according to people familiar with the proposal. Although the Days Gone developers at Sony Bend have not released an official statement about Days Gone 2 being developed or cancelled, talk around the web has recently put this zombie-stuffed franchise back in the spotlight.

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