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JustBeingReal on 17 February 2015
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KLAMarine said:
JustBeingReal said:
KLAMarine said:
Good to know but have they a target release date in mind at all?


Here's an interview Shuhei Yoshida did with Eurogamer:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-08-13-its-time-for-your-latest-update-on-the-last-guardian-again

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AWOL PlayStation exclusive The Last Guardian didn't turn up during Sony's Gamescom press conference this week. Were we expecting it? Perhaps not.

But we had hoped for the Team Ico title to perhaps show up at the Tokyo Game Show in September 2014.

Alas, it doesn't sound like it'll be there, either.

"Will we see it at Tokyo Game Show?" we asked Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida in an interview today.

"I don't think so," was his response. "Sorry."

When will we see it?

"When we are ready. I cannot confirm any timing because we are waiting for it to be in a state where we are happy that this is the game. We have a certain time frame in our mind, and the team is making great progress, but still not to the point that we can say that, here you go."

Yoshida, and other Sony Computer Entertainment executives, are often asked about the status of The Last Guardian, which was announced as a PlayStation 3 exclusive five years ago. We last asked Yoshida about The Last Guardian at E3 in June, where it also failed to turn up.

Sony has since insisted the game is still in development. So, what's taking so long?

"The technical issues on PS3 and the way it was engineered didn't work," Yoshida said, echoing comments he's made before. "It worked to some extent, that's why we had a date in mind."

That last comment is a reference to Sony's 2010 announcement of a late 2011 release date for the game.

"That was a mistake," Yoshida admitted, "but at one time it was looking possible. It has been totally re-engineered. They're still working on it. I've been seeing the progress."

Is The Last Guardian now a PlayStation 4 game? It seems inevitable that it is, but Sony isn't saying. The long wait continues.

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Sounds like a nightmare process. Having to repurpose the PS3 sourcecode which has been in development since 2010 or so for the PS4 years later. Such is software development: you spend more time revising code than writing it.


Yeah, Naughty Dog did say it was an absolute nightmare trying to port The Last of Us over to PS4, because their engine was so heavily optimized, literally down to the binary level for PS3.

TLG may not have gotten to the final optimization stage for release, so it's possible they just built a completely new Engine for PS4 and then built new assets for the game from the ground up, it would obviously depend entirely on how far along the PS3 version of the game was.

The 2010 trailer looked like it was running very solid, although tbh I don't know if that was really running on PS3, more like a PS3 dev kit build, it just looked too good, with way too much going in with all of the movement of Trico's feathers and foliage. Judging by how amazing the trailer looks, even up 'til now if TLG really is on PS4 it'll probably be absolutely stunning. If Sony shows it at E3 it's an instant win for me, if they have the likes of Horizon, GT7 a tonne of other games this year the Internet will explode!