While the lack of news on the anticipated Team ICO project The Last Guardian has been discouraging, Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida says that it is still in development. There’s reason to hope that the game will release… but perhaps, not for many more months.

“The project has been making progress, but slow progress,” detailed Yoshida. “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].”

Yoshida was also quick to emphasize that Fumito Ueda is dedicated to finishing the game. “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’,” said Yoshida. “He comes in every day, and he’s probably one of the people who works the longest hours.”

Source: 1UP