E3 2012: Sony says The Last Guardian will be released when it's "absolutely ready"

The Last Guardian has have a troubled development cycle, with creative personnel abandoning the project. The game is conspicuously absent from E3 2012, but Sony is reassuring fans that the game is coming along and will be released when it’s ”absolutely ready”.

According to Sony senior vice president of product development Scott Rohde, ”I will not give you a detailed update, but I will say one thing. It goes back in my mind to innovation and to gamers and to quality. That title is going to ship when it is absolutely ready.”

He went on to add there’s no set release date. ”And I think that’s a really important thing to remember, that it would be very easy to ship a game when it’s not quite ready because we need to meet a business plan. Gamers are first. And the experience that we provide is first. And that’s why we’re going to talk about that game when we’re ready to talk about it,” he declared.

This past February, Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida admitted that work on Team ICO’s game was “progressing slowly”.