Third highest grossing, but how much of a profit did it actually make? We gotta remember this game had a long development cycle, numerous delays, and a high turnover rate with its employees, getting to the point where they had to hire workers from the film industry after burning out everyone else. All of this has to add up, and unless the game had a truly explosive sales reception, I don't know if it really had that good of a return on investment.

Things might be alright for Naughty Dog right now, but I think their days are ultimately numbered. Journalists might be willing to suck the dog's cock, but TLoU2's development has tanked the company's reputation among actual game developers (hence why they had to resort to film animators), and few of them are going to want to work with ND in the future. Which means any future projects, whether they're TLoU-related or not, are doomed to have hellish working conditions, which are only going to make the games even more expensive to make. And that's not even taking into account the fans who have been burned by TLoU2 and will not be returning for the third entry (or possibly any Naughty Dog game for that matter).