Well, this is awkward. When Sony re-revealed The Last Guardian this week, many suggested that it looked similar to the title's PlayStation 3 trailer from all those years ago. "What has Team ICO been doing?" the people with pitchforks cried. Speaking with Kotaku, Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida admitted that that original footage... Well, it wasn't quite representative of what the PS3 could do. "The game was running at a much lower framerate," he explained.
We assumed a long time ago that production had switched to the PlayStation 4, but Yoshida dates the change to 2012. "In 2011, progress became super slow," he explained. "There were lots of technical issues. The game was not performing at speed. The video we showed, the trailer on the PS3, was specced up. The game was running at a much lower framerate. Some features were still missing. It was clear that the team had to make a compromise in terms of features."
Of course, it's not entirely abnormal for Team ICO to start work on one PlayStation platform and finish up on another. Trivia time: ICO actually began production on the PSone, but as its concept outgrew the limitations of the hardware, development was switched to the much more powerful PlayStation 2. Watching the video again, we reckon that all of the hard work has paid off – not only does this game look graphically sumptuous, but it's unlike anything else we've ever played before.
[source kotaku.com]
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SOTC struggled quite badly on PS2 in my opinion, wasn't until PS3 it performed well. Glad this was delayed onto PS4.
My wife was less than impressed w/ the footage, she said the kid moved like they did in "The Bouncer" (we played it at launch, she has a good memory for things she doesn't like) and the background looked good b/c there was nothing going on. She did like Ico due to it's story, but had no use for SOTC due to it's almost complete lack thereof.
I think the time now is different as well. As great as this was 4 years ago, we just finished watching season 5 of GoT and Daenerys just flew off on the back of a dragon. She wasn't impressed by the awkward moving boy and his "giant rat".
I'm super excited they announced it, but mostly b/c we all thought it was dead. I think if it had been revealed Monday night for the first time my reaction would have been "interesting". And then Sephiroth kills the catbird thing w/ 1 sword strike and I forget all about it.
I was beyond happy to see it. Every year I watch Sony's panel and say will this be there year TLG finally gets announced? This year it happened and opened the panel, but it looked like a carbon copy of the PS3 trailer from years ago. I hope when we see the bird dog next time it looks a lot more asthetically pleasing.
i thought it looked a little rough. im still excited as all heck but i cant deny that in the back of my mind i was thinking hmmm this kind of still looks like a ps3 game, and not even a really good ps3 game (graphically). im sure it will turn out fine though. my faith has been renewed for another 5 years or so lol. id LOVE if they redid SotC for ps4 NO!!! A SEQUEL !!!!! OH MAN!!!!! YEAAAHH a sequel to SotC for ps4!!! i doubt im the only one who would kill for that.
I think the game looked great graphically and I'm super stoked that it's finally coming!
Copying square,10 years in development to get a trailer/demo, good work guys, this should be out by the time Sony Puts out there very last play station, about Nevuary 3
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