During E3 2015 , four years after the game had last been seen , Sony aired an official trailer for '' The Last Guardian '' , revealing along with it that the game was to be released in 2016 for the PlayStation 4 . The trailer revealed that production was shifted to a new company founded by Ueda and other former staff known as genDESIGN , while SIE Japan Studio would focus on programming and implementation . While the closure of Team Ico was never formally announced by Sony , it was predicated on Ueda 's departure from Sony in 2011 , following by several other members of the Team Ico staff the following year . Most of these became part of genDESIGN , the studio that completed the development of '' The Last Guardian ''
E3 2015
E3 2015
Team Ico