Sony Delays The Last Guardian and ICO/Shadows of the Colossus Collection

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, via their blog, announced that there will be two delays of upcoming titles, both from Team ICO Games.

The first is the ICOShadow of Colossus Collection. A package that was to bring together the ICO trilogy and Shadow of the Colossus in one updated pack for the Playstation 3.

The second delay is The Last Guardian, also a Team ICO game that was set for Holiday 2011.

Some UK retailers have been listing the release for October 7th, 2011 but Team ICO has stated that there is no actual release date yet an it sounds like it will slip to 2012 quite easily. Don’t get your hopes up for the title to drop before Spring 2012 now.

Here are a few words from The Last Guardian Director/Game Designer, Fumito Ueda:

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.

They haven’t released any new footage either but we have some older stuff from the TGS:

With so little information available and so few updated recently it’s no surprise that it has been delayed.