It could be that the long wait is helping, but  The Last Guardian is doing well so far in pre-orders, well enough to surpass Sony’s estimates.
“I can’t comment with specific details, but I can say that pre-orders for The Last Guardian are exceeding expectations,” Joe Palmer told MCV. “We’ve seen a really positive response to the Collector’s Edition in particular, which despite its higher price point, proves there’s a huge appetite for the game”
Sony didn’t want to hype the game up to let the fans down due to the time they had the game in development and obviously had people waiting for a while. “When you’re working on a game that has such incredibly high levels of expectation, it’s impossible not to consider the pressure of meeting player expectations”

“We’ve tried to avoid fuelling the hype by playing on the fact that people have been waiting a long time for this. We want people to be excited because the game looks incredible, not because of its complicated development story”

The Last Guardian has been in development since 2007 and was revealed at E3 2009 with a 2011 release date, but almost 10 years later it’s finally launching December 6th.
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