Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
At the same time, why would they have brought it back last year if they were not (almost) completely sure? They could have just kept it in stasis longer until they were ready.
It could have been to just reassure people that it was still in development, or maybe just to announce that it was a PS4 game now, either way they still may have been unsure when they slapped that 2016 release date on it last year.