ICO, Shadow Of The Colossus Producer Departs Sony
ICOFirst Fumito Ueda and now one of his right-hand men.
As reported at Andriasang, Kenji Kaido has revealed via Twitter that he's leaving Sony Computer Entertainment this month. That's too bad.
This is significant because he worked alongside Ueda as a producer on two of the industry's most beloved titles, ICO and Shadow of the Colossus. He wouldn't say what he plans to do after leaving Sony; for now, he says he's on vacation and that's where he'll stay for a little while. Unfortunately, there's no way to know if Kaido was involved in The Last Guardian, Ueda's latest project that has received plenty of attention as of late due to development difficulties. Sony confirmed that the game was still in development and it'll still come to the PS3.
Right now, that's about all we know. Maybe we'll get an official update on the game at the Tokyo Game Show next month. We won't read too much into Kaido's departure, as we're not sure if this has any impact on Guardian.
Related Game(s): ICO, Shadow of the Colossus
Tags: ico, shadow of the colossus, kenji kaido, the last guardian
8/27/2012 8:37:16 PM John Shepard
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Aura7541
Monday, August 27, 2012 @ 10:54:09 PM
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WorldEndsWithMe
Monday, August 27, 2012 @ 11:00:42 PM
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Lord carlos
Monday, August 27, 2012 @ 11:47:31 PM
They did all the pre production ie. concept art ect(being former cgi artists)then japan studio would handle production under supervision from ueda and the other producers.
At least thats what i gleamed from the vids i downloaded from the ps store.
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BikerSaint
Tuesday, August 28, 2012 @ 12:08:53 AM
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Ultimadesires
Tuesday, August 28, 2012 @ 2:02:46 AM
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ProfPlayStation
Tuesday, August 28, 2012 @ 3:11:46 AM
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012 @ 3:29:19 AM
just because $ony says its still in production does not mean its true.
plus $E still says versus is still in production.
now thats a zing.
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012 @ 3:28:22 AM
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i mean $ony jappan studio is one of $onys biggest studios and one of their leading studios.
if theres one studio that has a big hand in next gen titles ATM it will be them, its their lead studio!
so why are such big heads leaving all of a sudden?
this makes what, 7 SCEJ employees departing now within a few months?
and 4 of them have been producers and CEOs dont get much higher than that!
so what is $ony doing to piss them off and make them leave?
worrying this is.
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WorldEndsWithMe
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Monday, August 27, 2012 @ 9:56:53 PM
I don't think TLG is going to resemble what we had all hoped for while Team Ico was originally putting it together.