In an interview on Gameindustry.biz, Shuhei Yoshida answered some questions about the long awaited title from Team Ico, The Last Guardian. The first question was if it was still even being developed to which he simply replied: “Yeah, in this Building (Sony Studios Japan)!”.
Naturally this prompted further questions such as what console it was being released on, which unfortunately, could not not be talked about. When in interviewer pried further Yoshida-san explained:
“So, we’re waiting for the right time to re-introduce The Last Guardian in an appropriate way. I can’t… Well, the game is in development, and it’s well staffed, and Ueda-san is here, working – even though he’s not a Sony employee, he’s dedicated to the product. But we’re not ready to update yet”
While it is good news to know that Fumito Ueda is still working on the title, this statement created some more confusion considering that the last thing that we were told was that The Last Guardian was on “hiatus”. Yoshida-san however claims this is some-what wrong:
“Hiatus, I never… It was Jack Tretton! He used that term, and I said no, hiatus is misleading. It was a hiatus in terms of releasing new information. The game has never stopped – the team has always been here. They’re going through the re-engineering of the game, so the team size is smaller, because it’s more engineering focused right now”
It’s not hard to assume that the development has moved to the PlayStation 4 which in our opinion is a good thing. The Last Guardian has an amazing concept and could be very well applied to next gen consoles.
But what do you think? Have you been following The Last Guardians “production”? Or had you given up hope?