United Kingdom, Feb. 20 -- Former PlayStation head Shuhei Yoshida has said Naughty Dog's ill-fated 'The Last of Us Online' "was great".

The studio had been working on the multiplayer spin-off to its beloved zombie series until it was cancelled in 2023, and Yoshida - who was the President of Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios from 2008 to 2019 - has revealed he had "played the game and it was great".

Naughty Dog had brought on former 'Halo' and 'Destiny' studio Bungie to work on 'The Last of Us Online', but reportedly had expressed its concerns that the game didn't have the ability to "keep players engaged for a long period of time".

After realising the title would eat into its development time on the upcoming singleplayer...