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Development of The Last Guardian is moving slowly, but is still a “really important project and vision” for Sony, Shuhei Yoshida has said.

The SCE Worldwide Studios President offered a small update on the game’s progress whilst chatting to 1UP, and also spoke of the change of position for Fumito Ueda at developer Team ICO.

“He was an employee, and now he's working on a contract basis,” said Yoshida. “You know, we discussed an arrangement so he could focus on the creative side. But his work and his presence on that team never changed, so it was just more a contractual rearrangement, and that was taken [by many] as "he left."”

“Absolutely,” he added, when asked if Ueda continues to work in office. “He comes in every day, and he's probably one of the people who works the longest hours. The project has been making progress, but slow progress. So that's tough, but we haven't changed any focus.

“It's still a really important project and a vision we want to see realized, and Fumito's vision is really causing a very difficult challenge for the developers, so there's some scrapping and rebuilding -- iteration in the process. That's why [it's taking so long].”

When questioned on Ueda’s future relationship with Sony, Yoshida suggested that, should The Last Guardian experience some success when eventually released, the Ico and Shadow of the Colossus creator could continue to work with the PlayStation platform giant.

 

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