Sony can look at its last major PS4-exclusive of 2016 in a positive manner.

The Last Guardian launches on Tuesday and Sony will remove the embargo of it on Monday after having shipped those glorious press copies (we wrote about them earlier this week here). Sony’s product manager, Joe Palmer told MCV that while he can’t reveal exact details, The Last Guardian’s pre-orders have surpassed Sony’s expectations.

„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,” Palmer says. „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,” he added.

He has a point: since the return at E3 2015, Sony didn’t mention how the game took about nine years to be completed; only Fumito Ueda talked about the development hell in the attached letter to the press copies.