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Shuhei Yoshida, President of Sony Worldwide Studios, told IGN that The Last Guardian was running into technical problems on PlayStation 3 many years ago."Because of the limitation of the hardware performance, the team was doing their best ... but we knew — from a design standpoint — in order to run it on PS3, the team would have to make some compromises in terms of the number of characters and these things," Yoshida said.But as Fumito Ueda and his team worked on The Last Guardian over the years, the PlayStation 4 started to come to fruition. Sony, Yoshida and Ueda then realized that the full potential of the adventure game could be realized if the title moved development to the newer home console."So, that's the decision that we made some time in 2012, and after that, the team went back to the drawing board in terms of the tech, because the architecture is so different," Yoshida said. "... But since last year ... the game's playable. So, the team is very excited now. And working very hard." Sony officially reintroduced The Last Guardian last night at the company's E3 press conference, showing a gameplay video of the action game. And in fact, Yoshida said that portion of The Last Guardian is playable, but just not the best fit for a live demo."The video that we showed yesterday during the conference, actually you can play like that," he said. "It runs, the performance is great, but because it's an adventure game, it takes a little bit of a long time to show one sequence ... so, because the press conference is managed by very tight on time, we decided to show the video."And as for the 2016 release window, Yoshida is feeling good that we will in fact see The Last Guardian launch next year."So, the development is going very well, and we have a good amount of confidence in the time that we announced the window that we feel we can hit this time," he said. "So, that's why we introduced it."For more on the PlayStation 4 exclusive, be sure to check out IGN's E3 preview of The Last Guardian

Evan Campbell is a freelance news writer who streams games on his Twitch channel , talks about Nintendo weekly on the NF Show , and chats about movies and TV series on Twitter