The Last Guardian is still in development, though work is progressing "under completely new conditions."

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That's according to game creator Fumito Ueda, who told Dengeki PlayStation (via Kotaku ) that the scope of the project continues to amaze him.When asked what his most memorable PlayStation moment was, he responded: “The Last Guardian, by which I mean all the hardships and the unforeseen amount of time required than what was originally thought."He was then asked specifically about a project he'd worked on in 2014, or one that is coming out in future. He once again elected to talk about The Last Guardian, and his choice of words is leading people to speculate this means it's now a PS4 title.“Talks with Sony Computer Entertainment on The Last Guardian have been ironed out, and we’re making progress under completely new conditions. I’m also working on some other things that I’ll hopefully be able to show in time if progress is smooth.”Last March, Scott Rohde, Head of Software Product Development at Sony, told IGN The Last Guardian is still “ absolutely in the mix at Sony Worldwide Studios .” The game was first revealed at E3 in 2009 with a projected release date of 2011. While 2011 didn’t see the release of the game, we did finally get a chance to see the game running in March of that year. In 2012 Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida confirmed the game was still in development, despite the withdrawal of the game’s executive producer, Yoshifusa Hayama , and the departure shortly after of Team ICO’s founder, Fumito Ueda In the wake of subsequent, conflicting reports that the game was on hiatus , Yoshida recently explained that the studio was waiting to reintroduce the title

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