The Last Guardian 35 minutes of gameplay of final build.

[WagnerPaiva]

SvennoJ said:

WagnerPaiva said:
Looks cool but there is no way in hell this can sell more than 1 million copies. What was the point of developing this through 10 years? Sony needs to keep a tighter leash in their teams, this is not something that can happen again.

You don't know that, ICO and SotC have had very long legs. VGCharts has SotC + the remaster sitting at 2.5 million (1.14+1.31)
Plus sometimes there's more to life than money. I'm glad Sony let Famitu Ueda stick to his original vision instead of cancelling or releasing a broken game on ps3. The man deserved to complete his project and not turn it into a No Man's sky release.

I hope things like this can happen again, since to hell with yearly sequels.

That´s a very different approach from what I expect from a development team, I will give you that. It reminds me of Guns n Roses and Def Leppard taking 15 and 8 years to finish their albums, it does not matter how good the album is, it is just too much time.

For what we know of the industry, such a game can not be a smash hit. Sure, it is awesome, but it is not the kind of game that sells millions, not in this day and age.

Hits nowdays are games that just make us lose ourselves in a well elaborated world in which we can fulfill primal instincts or to live stuff we see in the movies, like GTA5 or Battlefield, or crazy fun games that are addictive by their super fun mechanics, like Mario Kart 8 or Splattoon. 

Or even, cathartic experiences that involve us in a web of repressed feelings, like Until Dawn or Hitman Absolution. Esotheric concepts like Last Guardian do not sell blockbusters usually.

I just fail to see how this took so much time to be completed. It smells like OCD instead of a genious mind, like, no respect for planning. Sounds like Suicide Squad: starting to do something before you are sure of what you want to do.

Aside that, Final Fantasy 15 is proof that no good thing comes from such a long time developing: the result is usually a mess. Last Guardian does not have the same problem. It is not a mess, but it feels like a tiny result for such a enormouns gestation.