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Ueda Tells Fans To “Keep An Eye Out” For Last Guardian Info

Ben-Dutka 20 Comments

Could Sony give us a long-awaited update on The Last Guardian soon? Like, say, on February 20?

It's possible. Creative director Fumito Ueda has offered a relatively vague teaser on his website (as cited by GameSpot ), saying fans should "keep an eye out" for new information arriving…soon?

He did say that the timing of such info is up to Sony, but he confirmed that the game in question is still under his supervision and "in development by an incredibly talented team." Ueda also added that he left Sony to pursue "other creative passions" and he continues to work on Guardian on a freelance basis. Most recently, we had received confirmation from Sony that the game was still intended for the PS3. But now, we're starting to wonder if all the development delays – and the fact that we might get an "official announcement" on February 20, when the PS4 is supposed to be unveiled – are pointing toward a next-gen release.

Next week is shaping up to be awfully interesting.

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Would You Rather Have The Last Guardian On The PS3 Or PS4?

Ben-Dutka 24 Comments

For a great many PlayStation 3 owners, it is the most missed title of this generation.

And with so many developmental snags and other internal strife, it's no surprise that we still don't have a concrete release date for The Last Guardian . There has been much talk about it being saved for the next generation; perhaps it'll arrive during the first months of the PS4's tenure.

But that brings up an interesting question: Would you rather see this game release on the PS4? Or do you want Sony to bring it out for the current hardware? There are pros and cons to each, of course: On the one hand, it sucks that we'd have to wait even longer for the game and furthermore, we'd all have to buy an expensive new piece of hardware to play it. On the other hand, the team could feasibly do something really special by utilizing next-gen hardware and we'd get a truly memorable and perhaps even revolutionary experience. And can you imagine The Last Guardian being a PS4 launch title?

But then again, maybe it's best to keep the game on track for this generation. Given the amount of time and resources this project has sucked up by now, you'll want the biggest possible audience, right? Launching only on the PS4 could be financial suicide; there'd only be a tiny fraction of the PS3 audience. That, of course, is always a big stumbling black for all games that release exclusively for new hardware that almost nobody owns. So what do you say? The Last Guardian now or later?

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The Last Guardian Devs Were Forced To “Re-Do” Some Work

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Earlier, it was rumored that The Last Guardian may have been tragically abandoned.

And oh how tragic that would've been. But as we found out from SCEA's Eric Levine – and posted up on Twitter immediately thereafter – the game is indeed still in development. But what's the current status of the title?

Eurogamer asked Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida that very thing at Gamescom, and his reply was…well, sort of encouraging, depending on your point of view.

"The team is still working on it very hard There are certain technical issues they've been working on. That's the period of time when the game, looking from the outside, doesn't seem to be making much progress. But internally there is a lot of work going into creating the title."

It seems the biggest problem is that the team had to go back and make significant changes. Unfortunately, Yoshida says the technical issues turned out to be very problematic, which has resulted in this lengthy development cycle. Basically, the team had to go back and fix stuff.

"We had the game playable. At one point we felt that it would be produced for a certain time period. That was the time we prematurely talked about the launch window. But it turned out the technical issues are much harder to solve. So the engineering team had to go back and re-do some of the work they had done."

It's never good to get deep into a project only to learn that the game simply doesn't work. Or at least, it doesn't work half as good as you had anticipated. And when it comes to The Last Guardian , expectations are through the roof, so… But anyway, yes, this is still a PS3 game. For now.

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