Slimebeast on 04 June 2008
| jman8 said: The time between Ico and Shadow of the Colossus was 4 years, but I remember reading an interview of Fumito Ueda (the director) in which he said that SotC was in development for 3 years and that he felt development needed to be streamlined in order to release games more quickly. SotC was released in Fall '05, so this Fall would be a great time for a release! |
| Videogirl said: There were 18 months between Ico release and Shadow of the Colossus first rumors : some screens leaked begining of 2003, but the game was only annouced 18 months later September 2004 and released in Japan one year after that (October 2005). It means 4 years between their first and second game. Since Shadow was released end of 2005 you can expect the next one for end of 2009, but the game will most likely be officially announced either at E3 or TGS this year, thus giving Sony time to hype it. |
Thanks! Exactly what I was asking for.
Slight contradiction on info there - 3 years development vs the timeline of SotC that strongly suggests 4 years.
But that doesn't matter because by fall 2009 4 years have passed.
Okay, team ICO seems to have a policy to announce/hype their games late - judging by the 13 months last time. So late 2009 seems realistic, unless they have limited dev team resources split on two games rather than one.... But then there is the director's comment about streamlined development. =)
