Shuhei Yoshida, President of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios (SCE WWS), has said that development of The Last Guardian is progressing well, and that the firm is confident it will hit its 2016 launch window.
Speaking with Engadget, Yoshida-san spoke of the challenges faced in making the game for PlayStation 3 prior to its shift to the PS4.
"The move from PS3 to PS4 was difficult. Actually, making the game on PS3 was super difficult so basically we gave up. Because it was too slow, the progress. And the team did an amazing job porting the code onto the SPUs. But still the game didn't perform to the required levels and some features are still missing.
"And the PS4 was approaching and the dev kit became available. So it was obvious for us to move it to the PS4. So the old engineering effort had to go back to the drawing board and be remade for PS4. And that took a long time. But since last year, the development has been going very well. So we have a good amount of confidence in terms of this window for next year."
The executive also said the game's visuals won't be getting an upgrade as they're keeping in line with creator Fumito Ueda's (who recently set up its own studio) vision for the project.
"No, that's the vision for the project. The vision hasn't changed since the PS3 era. It's just that we couldn't achieve that on PS3. [Fumito] Ueda-san doesn't view the need for any changes."
The Last Guardian was re-revealed during Sony's E3 2015 press conference Tuesday evening. Check out the latest screenshots here.
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