Sony: "New IP, not rival battle, is our barometer of success"

[Torillian]

CGI-Quality said:

Boutros said:

Is The Last Guardian a new IP?

Technically, yes. They said it wasn't a sequel to SotC or Ico, but took place in the same universe (similar with FFvXIII and FFXIII).

Yeah, really it depends how you define new IP.  If there can be nothing taken from another game for the IP to be new then the fact that TLR, SotC and Ico occur in the same universe means they're the same IP.  Personally I think of SotC and Ico as so different in gameplay, storyline, and characterization that I think it's unfair to call them the same IP, but I can see where the argument comes from.