Ico, Shadow of the Colossus producer leaves Sony

Is PS 4 backwards compatible or dont we know yet?

Can we get shadow of the colossus 2 for PS 4? I think on PS 4 they could really do the graphics justice.

wonder if sony ticked him off with what they wanna do with The Last Guardian or something

Didn't the other original producer staff left months ago way back? Back when the news was when they were asking(not sure it's sony or the dev team) for help from God of War developers?

Sad new for a very anticipated game with some work put in already.

Sony don't waste big moneys now seems they are Wasting time and all money on ps4 so it's Not strange at all if you ask me.

Oh no...

Uh oh. To me it sounds like '' Hey Sony, can you get us more funding? The project won't advance. ''. '' No lol sorry no one wants your games unless it sells 5M copies.''

= Last Guardian, Ico and SoTC producer leaves.

Maybe Sony does not want to spend too much money on the development of the Last Guardian game? So much for original games...

Why not join EA then try to dominate the gaming world?

Yeah - things aren't looking good for Sony right now and they're cancelling projects left, right and centre atm.

Wouldn't surprise me if this one got canned.

If this cycle had not extended for so long this game would probably have been cancelled already or turned into a PS4 game. The top brass leaving like this and such a long dev time does not bode well for this game though. @KSSuperhero GS or Kotaku did an article on why trademark lapsing is not a big deal, mainly because it's a legal point of having to use it within 3 years or it will lapse but then it can be reacquired easily, check it out.

sad news RIP probably

I dont believe at this point the last guardian will ever see the light of day. I thought I read something a couple of weeks ago about Sony letting the trade mark on the name go. Which if that is the case this game is already dead.

Ahhh, so the article not so long ago talking about 'Last Guardian' "taking its time" and "it'll be ready when it's ready" has nothing to do with the fact Kenji Kaido has left? lol

Judging from this one would assume there is a few disagreements in the development team--or with the company in general. Or worse, problems with the game itself.

This leaves the game itself in a very worrying state. I hope it doesn't effect the final product, as I've been looking foward to this since announced....

SIgh, oh well...

The Last Guardian will be a PS4 show piece. It's going to show us what the system is capable of. We all know that when knew systems come out the games seem to get better looking. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, if you look at it today is pretty dated (still friggin' fun though). Fast foward a couple of years later after the tech matures, and take a look at Skyrim, MGS4, and Killzone 3. Huge difference.

The game is either vaporware or is just going to be awful. When a game is in development this long, the publisher usually gets tired of putting money in it and shelves it. no one even knows if they game will sell a million units to make up for development costs.

the game is officially cancelled R.I.P The Last Guardian one of my most anticipated games :'(

Oh well, get someone else.

I hope PS4, allows us to play PS3 games!! because there are so many sweet games coming out at the end of 2013. It would be a shame if we could not play them on the new system

Even though he's headed elsewhere, I hope Kenji Kaido's interest in video games lives on.

Sad, but this does not affect Team ICO and Last Guardian in anyway as he was not involved with the project. I trust Sony they are doing the right thing instead of quickly releasing the game as it is, which many publishers tend to do.

Oh dear...

first FFVS13 and now this .... -.- japanese people need to wake up...

@zo70 @kiramasaki @firstclassgamer

How is Nintendo smart? They are willing to take risks on things that are new and different, that doesn't make them smart.

The 3DS was a terrible flop of a handheld and majority of its games are just ports of N64 games. The Wii had short term success but long term failure, Nintendo could not pump out any AAA titles for the Wii and majority of the games for the Wii relied on gimmicky use of its motion controls.

The Wii U is looking to be the same thing over again.

@zo70

You are acting as if sony fired him. Have you given any thought that he possibly wanted to leave in order to pursue other projects?

More bad news for this game. I really hope this game doesn't get cancelled, but it's future doesn't look so bright. I still have some hope left for this game.

I bought a PS2 BECAUSE of Ico. Two years ago I almost bought a PS3 just because of The Last Guardian, but went with the 360 instead. I'm pretty happy with that decision....and I would STILL be waiting for the only game to make me want the system.

Goodbye Last Guardian =/

lol the last guardian was one of the reasons i bought the ps3.. :P i hope it doesn't get cancelled.. it would be a shame

@zo70 - True story.