Is Sony cleaning house at their Japan Studios? Team Ico

[mikezilla2]

From Jim Riley on Gameinformer.com in an interview with the president of Sony's Worldwide studios Shuhei Yoshida.

Game Informer- There’s a lot of talk about Fumito Ueda leaving Team Ico and the state of Sony’s Japan studios...

Ueda-san has never left the team. It’s a change of his work status from being an employee to working as a contract. We discussed and made it more clear about his role and his creative input and how he works, but he hasn’t changed his presence; he comes to the office. It’s being talked about as if he left the game, but that never happened.

But in terms of the state of the studio in Japan, we have a new head of studio, Allan Becker. He’s been with PlayStation from the beginning. He founded Sony Santa Monica studio. I asked him to move to Japan to instill his philosophy of making games. He's also bringing these two different cultures together. He started in April last year as the head of the Japan studio and has already made a big impact.

What’s the latest on The Last Guardian?

It’s making progress. There have been technical issues and the engineering team is reworking it. It’s playable, but not to the level of when we can say it’s coming.


http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2012/02/10/shuhei-yoshida-interview.aspx
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[THEMAN]

this is going to be a 2013 title. They said it was developing very slowly and this from a game in dev hell for 4+ years? I think they might have not been able to pull gameplay together. The engine looked solid enough.
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[Nietzsche]

Yer last guardian isn't coming out.

[mikezilla2]

your missing the point - Ueda will still be working with sony.
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