Sony has announced that The Last Guardian will be getting PlayStation 4 Pro support, upscaling the upcoming action-adventure title to 4K and adding a number of minor performance enhancements.
The Last Guardian PS4 Pro update incoming
While full details on the PS4 Pro version of the hotly anticipated game have yet to be confirmed, it is known that The Last Guardian will utilise HDR via a patch. This obviously isn’t a PS4 Pro-specific feature, however.
The Last Guardian has been a long time coming, having originally been announced way back at E3 2009 during Sony’s press event. The game was eventually confirmed to ship in holiday 2011, although the project was ultimately delayed, with creator Fumito Ueda leaving Sony to work on the game on a freelance capacity.
Sony remained quiet on The Last Guardian for a while over the next few years, and at one point Jack Tretton, the former head of Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA), suggested the project was on hiatus. While this was not to be the case, it wouldn’t be until E3 2015 that the game would resurface, this time as a PS4-exclusive.
While initially pegged for an October 2016 launch, The Last Guardian release date was later delayed for a few months to allow for extra polishing, with the project now finally due out on December 6 in the U.S. and December 7 in Europe. The game recently hit gold status, meaning development is now complete after nearly a decade of work.