Work on The Last Guardian remains ongoing, with the title still scheduled to release on PS3.
That's according to Sony Worldwide Studios chief Shuhei Yoshida, who told Eurogamer today that the reason the game hasn't been seen recently is due to myriad technical issues.
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.
"The team is still working on it very hard, there are certain technical issues they've been working on," he explained. "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."
Despite being officially announced in 2009, information about the highly anticipated title has been thin on the ground after it missed TGS 2011 and then was absent from E3 2012. Yoshida made similar remarks last month regarding technical problems, though his words today suggest the scale of the problems are much larger than was originally imagined, with the team having to re-do past work.
He said, "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."
There's still no word on when we'll get our hands on the game, or even see it in action, but Yoshida reiterated that "The game is developed on PS3", so hopefully we'll see it before the next wave of consoles hit.
Just last week the trademark for The Last Guardian was apparently "abandoned", leading many to fear that the game was destined to become vaporware. Thankfully, today's comments suggest this isn't the case and we will see the title on PS3...eventually.
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