Happy 9 years, you beauty.
Built natively for the PlayStation 4, this game showcased a studio at the height of its powers:
Technically accomplished, narratively mature, and commercially unstoppable.
A personal favorite of mine.
This game perfectly ties up Nathan Drake’s story.
By 2019, Uncharted 4 had become the best-selling title in the franchise, moving over 16 million copies, with some estimates even higher.
More than 37 million players experienced the game, partly thanks to its inclusion in PlayStation Plus.
With a Metacritic score of 93, it remains one of the most celebrated games of its generation.
Uncharted 4 also stood out as the only title in the series developed entirely for the PS4.
This let Naughty Dog push the console to its limits, delivering richer animations, more complex AI, and immersive world-building.
It was a generational milestone, a send-off powered by the full force of new hardware.
Now, nearly a decade later, Naughty Dog is preparing to launch Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, their first original IP since The Last of Us.
Like Uncharted 4, it will be built natively for a new generation of PlayStation hardware, this time the PS5.
“But that’s not who I am.”
Absolute cinema.
