Sony defends lengthy development time on The Last Guardian

Team Ico is still hard at work on The Last Guardian, and according to Scott Rohde, senior vice president of product development at Sony, it'll only be ready when it's "absolutely ready."

"I will not give you a detailed update, but I will say one thing," he told GameSpot. "It goes back in my mind to innovation and to gamers and to quality," he said. "That title is going to ship when it is absolutely ready."

Sony apparently does not have a deadline for the game.

"Gamers are first," he said. "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."

The Last Guardian was first announced at the 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo.

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