The director of Days Gone has said that the local studio management always made them feel like the game was a big disappointment.

News about Sucker Punch’s Ghost of Tsushima surpassing the sales threshold of 8m copies made quite a noise recently and then Days Gone director Jeff Ross said that when he left Sony back in late 2020, Days Gone had already sold over 8m copies – not to mention it kept selling, plus the 1m+ sales on Steam already.

But despite Days Gone’s sales success, Ross said that “Local studio management always made us feel like it was a big disappointment. It’s weird!”. Ross also added to his words that Sony’s not positive about backing a sequel.

It seems Sony took Days Gone review scores (Metacritic score is currently 71), development time and the costs into consideration here. Eurogamer’s review of Days Gone said “a shallow copy of many better open-world action games”.

Ross said “Definitely didn’t generate God of War numbers, but neither did Ghost of Tsushima or Death Stranding.”

Ross continued his words with “Even the first Killzone got a 70 on metacritic, but the sequel roared back with a 91. You gotta crawl before you can walk, and walk before you can run. Development was a long slog, but we were a small team learning how to make our first open world game. All things considered, it’s amazing we finished at all.”

Unfortunately it doesn’t look like Days Gone 2 is happening any time soon, after these words.