Western devs drafted in to save Last Guardian

MCV Staff 22nd February 2012 Publishing

Sony has sent in its Western studios to help tackle the troubled development of Team Ico’s The Last Guardian, Sony’s game design chief has revealed.

In an interview withWired, Shuhei Yoshida said that Sony Santa Monica and other teams in the US and Europe have been brought in to support the Japanese developer finish the title.

It’s not just Santa Monica, we have great tech people in Worldwide Studios,” said Yoshida.

We have a central tech group in the U.S. and the U.K. so we are giving them whatever help they need. Technically, we have the best engineers in the U.S. and Europe, so these teams are helping them, giving advice.”

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