The Last Guardian has been in development for the better part of six years now. With growing concerns and slow progress, Sony says that internal studios like Sony Santa Monica are assisting on the game.

In an interview with Wired, Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida stopped by to cover all of the bases on Playstation Vita, but he also cleared the air on The Last Guardian, admitting that rumors of Team Ico getting help are true.

Well, you know, it’s not just Santa Monica. We have great tech people in Worldwide Studios. 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.

Yoshida also went on to, once again, emphasize that although creative director Fumito Ueda has left the company, he is still very much involved in the development of the game. “He never left the team, he’s on top of the game and the team is making progress,” said Yoshida. “At one point the progress was great, so we talked about the timing of the launch in the past. But now it’s making progress, but still not to the level — it’s playable, but not to the point that we can talk about the timing of launch.”

Source: Wired