10 Video Games Everyone Wanted (But Nobody Played)
1. The Last Guardian
For many players, The Last Guardian was their white whale - a game trapped in development hell that they never actually expected to play.
Team Ico's spiritual successor to Shadow of the Colossus was first announced at E3 2009 for an intended 2011 release on PS3, but delays and lengthy periods of radio silence caused many to assume it would never be finished.
But at E3 2015, Sony shocked the world by reintroducing the game as a PS4 title, and lo and behold, it finally ended up releasing to enormous fan excitement in late 2016.
Reviews were generally positive albeit with some mixed opinions on its finicky gameplay systems, yet The Last Guardian's sales ultimately failed to reflect that pre-release hype.
The game debuted at #7 on the UK gaming charts and within three weeks had largely vanished from gaming charts globally, indicating that it failed to stir up much interest at all beyond Team Ico's passionate fanbase.
Yet given The Last Guardian's ludicrously lengthy development time, one can only imagine the numbers it would've had to shift in order to be a storming commercial success.