It's no secret that the cost of game development is skyrocketing. Those rising costs are a key reason why Naughty Dog's founders allowed the studio to be sold to Sony.
Andy Gavin, who co-founded the legendary game studio in 1984 with Jason Rubin, explained why they sold the company to Sony in 2001 on his LinkedIn page. It was all about the money, but not to come out with a big payday. Instead, games were becoming too expensive, and they wanted to secure their financial future.
Naughty Dog Has Enjoyed Immense Success Since The 2000s
Despite making a name for themselves in the 1990s with the Crash Bandicoot franchise, Naughty Dog did not achieve its iconic status until the mid-2000s.
After the PS2's Jak and Daxter franchise, they broke into the mainstream with the Uncharted franchise for the PlayStation 3. The first three Uncharted games, heavily inspired by the Indiana Jones movies, gave the struggling PS3 console a bonafide system seller. With 2013's The Last of Us, they took another step forward as one of the premiere developers in the industry, standing toe-to-toe with other giants such as Rockstar Games....
