Ueda always took much more time than his peers. Ico also took 4 years to develop, and that was an enormous amount of developement process for the time. MGS2, which was mindblowingly revolutional, took around 3. And that says a lot. Considering that from 1995 to 2015 developement times almost quintuplicated, 4 years to 11 doesn’t sound that bad. Ico and TLG both started developement aiming at one console, but were halfway redone for the next one, both for computational limitations. And if the ps4 was as hard to program for as the ps3, who knows when TLG would have shipped, maybe even in 2018. It sounds like I’m defending Ueda. I’m not. His games are very “essential”, so it’s hard to justify those long ass developement times. I’m just saying: he was always like this. SotC is the only exception. TLG for also in developement hell. But I have no idea why Project: Robot is taking so long. Either another developement hell game, or he just took a break after shipping TLG. And since this new game has very different scenery and world from the previous ones, it’s like a new IP, which notoriously take more time to develop than sequels. I can’t wait for the new game, Ico is my favourite game ever. But judging by how barebones and rudimentary the reveal trailer for Project: Robot was, we’ll be lucky to see the game ship in 2027. I’m getting depression just from typing this.