After being entering development with Team Ico in 2007 and being first announced to the general public at E3 2009, The Last Guardian finally appears to be on track for an announced release date. During the game's nearly 10 year development, The Last Guardian has been beset with numerous delays and changes in release date. To hammer this point home, TLG was originally set to be released on the PS3.
Earlier today, Sony Interactive Entertainment producer Jun Yoshino released a tweet indicating that TLG had gone Gold, indicating that development was done. However, it was quickly deleted which caused a bit of concern within the PS4 gaming communitty. Luckily, Sony president of Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida decided to release his own Tweet (see below) confirming The Last Guardian's Gold status.
ABOUT THE LAST GUARDIAN
The Last Guardian is an upcoming video game developed by genDESIGN and SIE Japan Studio, and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 4. The game is designed and directed by Fumito Ueda, and shares stylistic, thematic, and gameplay elements with his previous games, Ico (2001) and Shadow of the Colossus (2005). In The Last Guardian, the player controls a young boy who befriends a giant half-bird-half-mammal creature, Trico, and the two work together to evade guards that are after them both. The player must manipulate Trico as they would a real animal, such as luring it with food, to use it to reach high platforms or other remote places, while evading enemies.
The single-player action-adventure game will be released in Japan and North America on December 6, 2016.