Quite a lot of builders pitch issues that by no means see the sunshine of day. Possibly you’re the type who’d fairly not find out about one thing that didn’t make it out of the pitch room to avoid wasting your self the heartache of a promise unfulfilled, or perhaps you’d choose to glimpse what may have been, even realizing that it’s going to by no means truly be. In case you’re a Jak and Daxter fan who’s been lacking the PS2 platformers, it’s time to find out which camp you fall into, as a result of because it seems, a remake was pitched to Sony and turned down.
To be clear, Sony wasn’t actively exploring a Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy remake. This pitch was just like the preliminary pitch for Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, the place developer Sanzaru introduced the thought to Sony, which later signed off on it and allowed the staff to create and launch the PS3 sequel again in 2013. Travis Howe, a former animator at Sanzaru, posted a snippet to LinkedIn of a touched-up scene from the primary Jak and Daxter recreation that was dropped at Sony in 2019 as a part of a pitch for a remake or remaster of that recreation (Howe makes use of the phrases interchangeably in his publish). Regardless of the remake by no means seeing the sunshine of day, Howe says he’s “actually proud” of how the scene of Daxter freaking out got here collectively within the ultimate pitch.
Travis Howe (Animator @ Sanzaru Video games 2018-26) – “Some time again, a staff was assembled to pitch a remaster of Jak & Daxter. I used to be requested to animate an IGC shot-for-shot, to indicate what this up to date model would appear to be.”
– not commissioned by Sony
– a fan pitch to achieve permission pic.twitter.com/64TRzPahcu— Jak and Daxter | ECO-MMUNITY (@eco_mmunity) March 25, 2026
There hasn’t been a brand new Jak and Daxter recreation since 2009’s Jak and Daxter: The Misplaced Frontier, which launched on the PS2 and PSP underneath Excessive Impression Video games after unique developer Naughty Canine handed it on to the opposite studio. Naughty Canine has stated it thought-about creating a brand new recreation within the sequence once more within the PS3 period however in the end selected making The Final of Us as an alternative. Although it seems like this remake pitch was shut down by Sony, it’s good to know at the very least some individuals haven’t forgotten among the PS2 classics.
Sanzaru was acquired by Meta and commenced to work totally on VR video games in 2020, and was subsequently shut down in January of this yr.
