SDC: The Last Guardian Trademark 'Dead' and 'Abandoned'

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#1 Rockman999
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[QUOTE="PlayStationLifeStyle"]Bad news for fans of critical hits ICO and SOTC Sony has left the The Last Guardian trademark to become dead and abandoned. PSLS has discovered that over on United States Patent and Trademark Office, the trademark for The Last Guardian is listed as (ABANDONED) with the Live/Dead Indicator stating that its DEAD. Trademarkia states Abandonment Notice! On Monday, August 6, 2012, status on the THE LAST GUARDIAN trademark changed to ABANDONED NO STATEMENT OF USE FILED. as well as Status Update! On Monday, August 6, 2012, status on the THE LAST GUARDIAN trademark changed to ABANDONED NO STATEMENT OF USE FILED. What this means exactly is unclear the game has gone through development turmoil seeing numerous delays and missing out E3 after E3, as well as suffering staff departures and Ueda becoming a freelancer. But Sony Santa Monica was brought in to try to fix a game-breaking problem and finally get it out this gen and Shuhei Yoshida has repeatedly stated that The Last Guardian is not dead. Whether the trademark being allowed to become dead is a sign that Sony have finally given up on the project or perhaps changed the name is unknown. PSLS has reached out to Sony for a comment and will update if they respond. Update: Sony has told us that they dont comment on rumors or speculation.

http://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2012/08/09/the-last-guardian-trademark-dead-and-abandoned/ Ouch.
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#2 crusadernm
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Wow that's pretty sad. I always think of vaporware when I hear anything about the Last Guardian. It's been in development how long now. How many millions did Sony pour into this title. This franchise isn't that popular either. It does have a niche audience though. I don't know. No one I know is excited for this game anymore. If it ever does come out. I'll be like millions of others waiting for it become used in the bargain bins.

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#3 deactivated-5acbb9993d0bd
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Like I said before, Shadow of the Colussus was a 1 time amazing gimmick that wouldn't succeed in sequels or replicas . Especially not just 1 giant bird and a kid. IT may still come out, but damn its getting for too much hype and expectations will be burned.
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#5 bbkkristian
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Womp wommmp Wwwwoooommmpppp. I expected this, tbh.
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#6 Zaibach
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I think it will come out as just 'Last Guardian' in order to avoid confusion with 'The Last of Us'

I think thats why they may have 'abandoned' that Trademark

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#7 Bazooka_4ME
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FAAAAAAIIIL.... Did ICO Collection collected enough funds for it?
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#8 SuperFlakeman
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I think it will come out as just 'Last Guardian' in order to avoid confusion with 'The Last of Us'

I think thats why they may have 'abandoned' that Trademark

Zaibach

I don't think TLG is vaporware but this DC here is just WOW

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#9 Gue1
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FAAAAAAIIIL.... Did ICO Collection collected enough funds for it?Bazooka_4ME

it sold 710,000. If that's bad or good for a collection I don't know.

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:lol: shlt one cows.
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#12 Fizzman
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Does this mean we finally get to remove TLG from cows list of super duper exclusives coming out next year*?

*Never

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#13 Frostbite24
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Wow, that's kind of sad. I hope Sony doesn't abandon any other exclusives already announced. Ouch.

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#14 Zaibach
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[QUOTE="Zaibach"]

I think it will come out as just 'Last Guardian' in order to avoid confusion with 'The Last of Us'

I think thats why they may have 'abandoned' that Trademark

SuperFlakeman

I don't think TLG is vaporware but this DC here is just WOW

Alot games get cancelled when they get stuck in developer hell. If this one gets canned it wont be surprising, take from that what you will.

There will be alot of DC from people looking forward to the game.

Whislt some people sad as they are will actually be happy about this.

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#15 Snakemaster9
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Hope some people aren't actually happy about this

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Hope some people aren't actually happy about this

Snakemaster9
Some lems probably are. But to them this game sounded stupid anyway, only games with big muscular men and guns are cool yo.
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#17 WilliamRLBaker
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Hope some people aren't actually happy about this

Snakemaster9
no cause I was semi looking forward to it some what but I will be laughing for a while about this unless its shown its false or the game isn't canceled.
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#19 Bazooka_4ME
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[QUOTE="Bazooka_4ME"]FAAAAAAIIIL.... Did ICO Collection collected enough funds for it?Gue1

it sold 710,000. If that's bad or good for a collection I don't know.

I'd say have Sony turn the project over to Media Molecule or Santa Monica.
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:lol: shlt one cows.RR360DD

lol

look at lems relief

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#21 Frostbite24
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Hope some people aren't actually happy about this

Snakemaster9
Honestly there was so little information about it that anyone seriously excited about it were probably just hyping themselves up at the possibilities.
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#22 slaves
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This really pisses me off. What the hell is Sony Japan doing? How can Nauthy Dog put out 3 Uncharted games, Insomniac put out 3 Resistance games and Japan can barely get out GT5 and hardly anything else? I mean really what do Polyphony and Team ICO do?

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#23 Fizzman
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This really pisses me off. What the hell is Sony Japan doing? How can Nauthy Dog put out 3 Uncharted games, Insomniac put out 3 Resistance games and Japan can barely get out GT5 and hardly anything else? I mean really what do Polyphony and Team ICO do?

slaves

Japanese developers got burned bad this gen. They were completely unprepared for it. Only reason Nintendo didnt get destroyed was because they focused on casuals and used last gen tech.

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#24 locopatho
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I have faith in Team Ico. It'll come out eventually...

This really pisses me off. What the hell is Sony Japan doing? How can Nauthy Dog put out 3 Uncharted games, Insomniac put out 3 Resistance games and Japan can barely get out GT5 and hardly anything else? I mean really what do Polyphony and Team ICO do?

slaves
This is a very good point. Their western studios are putting out tons of great games. Their Japanese don't seem to be doing much.
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#25 Frostbite24
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This really pisses me off. What the hell is Sony Japan doing? How can Nauthy Dog put out 3 Uncharted games, Insomniac put out 3 Resistance games and Japan can barely get out GT5 and hardly anything else? I mean really what do Polyphony and Team ICO do?

slaves
Well if they really did cancel this game then I'm sure quite a few of Team ICO's employees were fired or left.
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#26 TomatoDragonPSN
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Well this doesn't necessarily mean that the game is dead. This could be two things also... 1. Since the game has been in development for such a long time, the tm might have run out because there's no product using it. 2. Team Ico might have changed the name. Will wait until there is official word that it is canceled. Still holding out hope.
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#27 rilpas
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wouldn't be surprised if this was part of Sony's new structuring plan, namely: Games can't have long development cycles and they have to be able to turn a profit
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#28 KillzoneSnake
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Maybe they changing the name again... and it becomes Trico once again.

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#30 mems_1224
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im so shocked :roll:
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#31 ToScA-
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! :cry::cry: This is bs!
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#32 Seabas989
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So which game will be relased first: The Last Guardian, Final Fantasy vs. XIII or Agent? :P

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#34 Crazyguy105
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One of the few PS3 exclusives I was looking forward to.

Damn it.

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#35 koospetoors
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Well that sure rustled my jimmies, I was quite looking forward to this.
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#36 ShuichiChamp24
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Bhahahaha, won't be surprised if it's true. Has been in dev hell for how long now, 5 years?
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#37 deactivated-59b71619573a1
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I hope this isn't actually the case and this is from before they updated with the extra devs chipping in. Can't see it being cancelled after such a long time

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#38 Asim90
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Perhaps this has something to do with the unnanounced japanese game scheduled to appear at Gamescom? I suspect they changed the name and this game will finally be unveiled soon. Either that or it is a sad loss.

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#39 LP4EVA2005
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if this does turn out to be true then wtf is the dev team good for? are they just sitting around with there thumbs stuck up there ass, or what...

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#40 crusadernm
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If I was a developer, I'd want to work on the Last Guardian. 2pm. Go to work. Sit around play cards, 3pm go get a late lunch, have some beers, 4pm Go home. Relax. lol

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#41 thetravman
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if this does turn out to be true then wtf is the dev team good for? are they just sitting around with there thumbs stuck up there ass, or what...

LP4EVA2005

I suspect they were just too ambitious and the development suffered for it. Heck, they even called Santa Monica to help fix an issue, which I assume it hasn't worked out. The same thing happened with Metal Gear Rising when they called Platinum Games.

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#42 ToScA-
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I hope this isn't actually the case and this is from before they updated with the extra devs chipping in. Can't see it being cancelled after such a long time

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The game will appear at TGS and blow everyone away. Fingers crossed!
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#43 m_machine024
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I'm still not giving in.

I'm not...

giving..

in...

:cry:

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#44 m_machine024
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If I was a developer, I'd want to work on the Last Guardian. 2pm. Go to work. Sit around play cards, 3pm go get a late lunch, have some beers, 4pm Go home. Relax. lol

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lol they've been basically rushing development for like half a gen. You don't want to work there. :P

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#46 FireSpirit117
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Well this...sucks. :|
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#47 danish-death
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wouldn't be surprised if this was part of Sony's new structuring plan, namely: Games can't have long development cycles and they have to be able to turn a profitrilpas
If this means we'll see a new GT every 2-3 years instead of 5-7 then sure. There's no excuse for This game, Agent and FF Versus. As someone else has mentioned other developers have put out quite a few games all good and sure you can argue that they aren't all as "unique" as TLG, but that really isn't an excuse, more like bad management. Something which is odd though is how it isn't even 2 months since we heard that it was still in development.
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[QUOTE="Snakemaster9"]

Hope some people aren't actually happy about this

dracolich55

Some lems probably are. But to them this game sounded stupid anyway, only games with big muscular men and guns are cool yo.



I think some Sheep are since the game involves furry cute stuff.

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#49 locopatho
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[QUOTE="Snakemaster9"]

Hope some people aren't actually happy about this

dracolich55
Some lems probably are. But to them this game sounded stupid anyway, only games with big muscular men and guns are cool yo.

Have you ever seen the Summer Of Arcade? Or Rare games? Or Fable? (I suppose you could be muscular in Fable if you wanted...)
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#50 Thefatness16
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Thus doesn't necessarily mean the game is canceled. Oh and

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