Not buying into it so easily. Sony could be upset with the long development cycle. You can argue that and understandable. Really though, the been in development for a ridiculous time and he is just freelancing it now and already thinking about other projects before The Last Guardian is finished?

Good for him.

Spread your wings and fly...Butterfly (like Mariah "MY DIVA" Carey)

Hey Sal, Mimi lives in NY like you...LOL

This is worrying news. I'm a HUGE fan of his games and the art design and direction in them (as you can see from my avatar). As long as he finishes up TLG with SONY, I'll be happy :)
But this could also be good news, he could have more freedom to express his creativity as a "freelancer".

This would suck. :/

Oh damn. I hope he will not leave Sony. The man is one of the pure geniuses in gaming history.

That would be rather odd considering sony lets him do anything he wants

Whoa, this is unexpected! Actually it's pretty odd, as hush says above, why would he leave midway through such a project? Strange.

Hmm. Wonder why he'd do this mid game. That seems kind of foolish.

Hope sony dont leave the game designs to themselves T^T they'll proabbly photoshop a cats head on the body >.>

If the dude wants to spread his creative wings and fly out into the gaming heavens; then I'm ok with that. Just don't stop being your creative and innovated self, ya hear!? :D

Good luck, Ueda! Your fans will be looking forward to seeing what else you produce at your new company!

As long as he will still keep making great game, I'm ok with this.

Please don't let this be true.

mother of god

=o