Executives and developers doubted The Last of Us

Quentin Cobb, a former designer on The Last of Us, says a high-level Sony executive looked at the game and told the team, 'It's not going to do very well, I think it just needs a small marketing budget.' 'People did not know how good that game was,' Cobb adds. 'Even inside the studio.

Where we were done, there were some people that were like, 'I don't know if it's going to be good, I don't know if people are going to get it.'' There was a clear contrast in tone at Naughty Dog after Uncharted 3. 'They had just done Uncharted 3,' Cobb points out.

'And going to The Last of Us, it was just so different. That's an intense, pretty wild game, if you think about it, in 2013.

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