A SIE spokesperson officially confirmed to the site Games industry that the main culprits of this leak have been identified and that they are therefore not part of the Californian studio, whose play had been postponed from May 29 to June 19 because of complications related to COVID-19. The manufacturer will not make more comments, the time to deepen its investigation.
A few hours before this press release, the journalist Jason Schreier, who follows behind the scenes of Naughty Dog closely and has many contacts in the studio of Evan Wells, had already hinted on Twitter that contrary to initial assumptions and false evidence fabricated from scratch on Reddit and elsewhere, there was a good chance that those responsible for this leak were actually not part of Naughty Dog.
The motivations of the managers obviously remain unknown at this stage, but in any case it is possible to think that security breaches may have opened in the context of the disturbances caused by the transition from the studio to a production in telework. .
The Last of Us Part II will be released on June 19, 2020 on PlayStation 4.
