Having spent three games making the transition from brightly-colored platform romp to ever-edgier revenge saga, Jak & Daxter almost made the transition to PS3 when Naughty Dog began looking to leverage the technology developed for Uncharted 2. However this would have necessitated an even greater shift in tone, says the team’s creative director, Neil Druckmann: “We had to reboot it essentially. Every time we got excited about an idea we’d take a step back and look at it and be like ‘It’s not Jak and Daxter’.”

Wells grants the company’s still not done with the idea of a relaunched Jak & Daxter. “To say we’ll never go back [to the series] is kind of crazy,” he says, though between Uncharted and The Last of Us, the beloved IP isn’t a high priority at the moment. “It’s still up in the air, but I wouldn’t think that’s going to happen, because I think we’d run into all of the same problems” as the Last of Us team did, he admits. Still, if there’s one thing the last few years have shown us, it’s that you’re never too old for a reboot, provided it’s gritty enough…

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“When we played the old Sly Cooper games,” explains Sanzaru head Glen Egan (opens in new tab), “we loved the stories about the Cooper clan ancestors and their various thieving abilities.” Which is why, when Sanzaru took over the series from Sucker Punch, it immediately set to work developing those ancestors into playable characters. The first to be revealed is Rioichi Cooper, Sly’s ninja ancestor, who Egan describes as “not only an uber-Ninja but is also the inventor of sushi.” Really? Sushi was invented in Japan? This game about time-traveling talking raccoon thieves is historically inaccurate (opens in new tab)! For shame.

Above: Gaze upon the profile of a falsifier of culinary history. Also he steals peoples’ stuff, but whatever

Anywho, the HD Collection will apparently hit PSN fairly soon, which should tide fans over until the 2012 release of Sly 4.

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