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Sad news for Team Ico/PlayStation 3 fans. Making official what was obviously already happening, Sony has delayed the HD Shadow of the Colossus/ICO collection originally planned for this spring. Furthermore, Team Ico's The Last Guardian has also been pushed back.
Here is a statement from The Last Guardian director/game designer Fumito Ueda on the matter from the Official PlayStation Blog:
I announced at last year’s Tokyo Game Show that the release timing of The Last Guardian which is currently being developed would be holiday 2011.
However, to provide more challenging and better quality of content to users and to fulfill First Party Studio’s obligations, I decided to postpone its release timing.
All the members of my production team are working together at a fast pace to develop and release the game in First Party Studio quality.
I sincerely apologize to all the customers who have been waiting for The Last Guardian for so long, but I beg for your patience. I will also announce the new release timing at a later time.
Similarly, Sony says it'll release a new official release date for Ico and Shadow of the Colossus: The Collection at a later date. Hopefully release dates for both games will be nailed down and announced by the time E3 hits in June.
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As long as the game is better for it, I don't mind :)
dissapointing but understandable, atleast they are delaying it and making a good product instead of releasing it and then having to send patches to fix mistakes.
OH man,I need to play these.Hurry up!!!
Take your time... I'll be buried in gaming backlog til the day I die I'm sure, so the longer I have between good releases the better, honestly.
So predictable...
Disappointing news, but at least now there's more time to catch up on games I haven't played.
That's a shame. At least I'll have more time to save up and to play other games.
It's certainly disappointing but I'm okay with it. I need to catch up on my huge stack of unplayed games, not to mention the myriad of other great games coming out this year.
Well... that stinks. But at least we're able to get the other games of this year. Since I never got to play ICO or Shadow of the Colossus, I'm looking forward to those too.
Sad news.. but hey its expected as long as they're sure they'll release a high end top quality product..
the wait continue's.. wow santa is gonna have his work cut out for him this year lol
Good on them then.
NOOOOOOOOOOO IT CAN"T BEEEEEE NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
Ratchet and Clank HD Collection, and Jak and Daxter HD Collection. Those are the two HD collections I am waiting for. Team Ico collection is nice and all, but I am not holding my breath for it.
I'm fine with this news. I've got several other games to get around that time.