When somebody begins a rumor that one in every of my favourite video games from childhood is about to make a triumphant return, I attempt to not suppose a lot of it, lest my hopes be dashed by a far much less attention-grabbing actuality. My fellow Sly Cooper and Notorious followers have been served a chilly glass of actuality immediately when Sucker Punch formally denied a rumor kicked up by ‘insiders’ over the previous couple of months—sorry people, no person is engaged on a brand new Sly Cooper or Notorious sport.
“With our give attention to our present challenge, now we have no plans to revisit inFAMOUS or Sly Cooper proper now, and no different studio is at present engaged on initiatives associated to these franchises both,” reads the weblog submit.
“These characters are very particular and close to and expensive to our hearts, so whereas we’d by no means say by no means to re-opening these doorways down the street, for now there aren’t any inFAMOUS or Sly Cooper video games in improvement.”
Sucker Punch is letting us down straightforward, however we actually knew all alongside, proper? The proof round this rumor wasn’t particularly credible: an nameless poster on 4chan stated Sly 5 is actual, and a supposedly dependable leaker backed up the declare. Platformers starring animals do not actually set the world on hearth nowadays, a lesson Sony discovered 9 years in the past when it gave Sly Cooper 4 a strive with a brand new developer. A brand new Notorious is much less of a stretch, however contemplating Sucker Punch remains to be having fun with the key success of Ghost of Tsushima, backtracking for a fourth Notorious sport does not make a lot sense both.
However a enjoyable a part of liking issues is that, even when there is a snowball’s probability in hell of one thing cool taking place, it is nonetheless good to realize it perhaps might. It is a disgrace that these false rumors stirred up sufficient expectations and pleasure that Sucker Punch needed to come out and make sure two sequence I really like are properly and actually lifeless. Not less than for now.
