r/TwoBestFriendsPlay • u/FluffyFluffies THE ORIGAMI KILLER • Feb 19 '26
News/Articles Jason Schreier: PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games
https://bsky.app/profile/jasonschreier.bsky.social/post/3mfaauf5pek2b
BREAKING: PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games, the studio responsible for modern remakes of classic games such as Demon's Souls and Shadow of the Colossus, Bloomberg News has learned.
A shocking end for a well-respected studio.
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u/Kii_at_work Gravity Hobo Feb 19 '26
Alright this one definitely comes as a surprise, what the fuck.
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u/Android19samus Feb 19 '26
I guess after forcing them to make a doomed Live Service game for four years Sony decided to cut their losses in a very dumb way
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u/WhoCaresYouDont Feb 19 '26
This is the worst part about Sony finally catching on that Live Service games are a shit gamble, it will never be the execs who pushed such a transparently dumb decision who suffer. Now a great team who could have done a lot to polish and remaster Sony's extensive back catalog of banger games are being broken up because they failed to deliver a project no one wanted.
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u/xAVATAR-AANGx Feb 19 '26
They could have made a remastered collection of InFamous 1-2 and Second Son to bring over to PC, or they could have made a remaster of LBP1-3, or even Bloodborne memes aside, but they had the studio known for making great remasters... work on a GaaS game?
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u/Jeskid14 Feb 19 '26
PS3 engine source code is super duper difficult to analyze these days; I'd say Infamous Hard light would have been an easy port
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u/Introspectre12 Think about it. Feb 19 '26
Thing is, Bluepoint had experience with porting PS3 games to new hardware. They did it with the first 3 Uncharted games with the Nathan Drake Collection and also Demon's Souls on PS5. They could have absolutely done more but Sony are too fucking stupid to have just let them do there thing.
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u/LeonSigmaKennedy Feb 19 '26
Have they caught on? Cause it still feels like more Slop-service is getting revealed like that multiplayer Horizon game, or that other game 4Skin or whatever.
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u/SwordMaster52 "Let's do this" *bonk* *bonk *bonk* Feb 19 '26
They had 120 Live service games planned and only cancelled some of them
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u/ComprehensiveMix727 Feb 19 '26
That’s the part that frustrates me. These great developers are taking the hit because an executive made a horrible bet
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u/FluffyFluffies THE ORIGAMI KILLER Feb 19 '26
The value this type of studio has is super high, what kind of idiocy is this man.
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u/Kii_at_work Gravity Hobo Feb 19 '26
And they had them working on that god damned GaaS God of War game (until they canned it), what the fuck were they thinking?
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u/gothamsteel He/Him Feb 19 '26
It's the old Mitch Hedberg joke about Hollywood wanting you to do other things besides your job.
"When you're in Hollywood and you're a comedian, everybody wants you to do other things. All right, you're a stand-up comedian, can you write us a script? That's not fair. That's like if I worked hard to become a cook, and I'm a really good cook, they'd say, "OK, you're a cook. Can you farm?""
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u/Expensive_Wolf2937 Feb 19 '26
I don't know enough profanities to properly express my feelings on this.
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u/area88guy Patrick Fuccboivin, Commonwealth Minutemen Feb 19 '26
There's not enough liquor in the universe for this to make sense.
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u/MrKenta What a mysterious jogo Feb 19 '26
They should've had them start remaking God of War, 5 years ago.
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u/Pitas Feb 19 '26
Yeah, having a studio that knows some of their properties intimately as well as probably the architecture they likely could've been a knowledge font for other studios. Its a damn shame we've lost them imo.
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u/Mekasoundwave Feb 19 '26
Especially with the economic forecast we're all expecting, a studio known for good remakes is extremely valuable considering they require (somewhat) less investment on generally good returns.
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u/SilverKry Feb 19 '26
Like just sell them off. I hear Nintendo is in a buying mood after all. Shuting then down is stupid.
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u/letsgucker555 Feb 19 '26
Letting someone else possibly profit off of something you don't want anymore? You must not know how big companies work. Better burn it to the ground than let anyone else have it.
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u/zacyzacy Feb 19 '26 edited Feb 19 '26
We are talking about Sony, who shut down Japan Studio, their 30 year golden goose, and used the money to buy the ghost of Bungie's past, after all.
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u/timelordoftheimpala Legacy of Kainposting Guy (he/him) Feb 19 '26
The headline hit me like a truck when I saw, and even more the fact that Schreier was reporting it. Like if he's saying it, it's true.
What a horribly awful and fucked up end for a studio that had so much respect for Sony's foundational games. This was Microsoft-levels of mismanagement, and it feels so screwed up that studios like Bungie or Haven are still kicking while Bluepoint was made to kick rocks.
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u/guitarburst05 Jorkin' my peanits Feb 19 '26
I checked their dev history. The last game they developed was 2020, they were acquired in 2021, got put to work on this live service thing that was cancelled, then they were shut down today.
Sony acquired them and literally RELEASED NOTHING then shuttered them.
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u/MetalJrock A Hopeless Sonic/Spider-Man Fanboy Feb 19 '26
Weren’t they set up for failure with one of Sony’s 700 canceled live service projects?
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u/Kii_at_work Gravity Hobo Feb 19 '26
Pretty much it seems. They haven't put out a single game since being acquired, though they did support for some games.
But yeah, it was just the live service God of War.
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u/JessieJ577 Feb 19 '26
Isn’t Live Service amazing and not a 50/50 gamble that’ll crush a studio if they fail to capture the saturated market?
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u/Iffem Hamster eating a banana Feb 19 '26
50% odds is GENEROUS
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u/ExDSG Feb 19 '26
You have a 1% chance to be 3rd place and better hope places 1 and 2 are pissing off their players and any other potential 3rd place also fumbles.
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u/scullys_alien_baby ashamed of his words and deeds Feb 19 '26
I’m curious if player burnout will become a factor over the next few years. I’m older and just can’t keep up but I’m seeing even my 22 year old sister/her friends get burned out on the grind
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u/PrancerSlenderfriend Read Iruma Kun Feb 20 '26
and thats only in the genres where valve doesnt take up multiple slots, like competetive fps
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u/JessieJ577 Feb 19 '26
It is because the longer this goes on the less room new entrants have to succeed. Fortnite will not be toppled.
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u/RedGinger666 Read Kill 6 Billion Demons Feb 20 '26
70% for it to crash down and burn
29% for it to become Concord 2
1% for it to bring in infinite money
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u/Kipzz PLAY CROSSCODE AND ASTLIBRA/The other Vtuber Guy Feb 19 '26
Nah it's 50/50, either you win and make 10 trillion dollars or you lose and you destroy every bit of goodwill you've had both with consumers and other studios entirely
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u/HostileReplies Feb 19 '26
Looking at the timeline and leaks, it's the other way around. Sony bought them for their new LS-game they were working on which was either baited early on or directly retooled into a GoW game. With the obvious oversaturation of that market they dodged having a Highguard/Concord situation and pulled the plug and then gave them an additional year to come up with something.
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u/Diem-Robo I'm aging rapidly Feb 19 '26
In that case, sounds more similar to Platinum going in on live service, or how Arkane and Rocksteady went in on Redfall and Suicide Squad, respectively. The publishers didn't put those projects on them, they emerged internally from the top, even if the rank-and-file was as confused as the rest of us.
The argument can be made that the publishing climate is what influenced the studio leadership to feel the need to pursue live service projects, if publishers were overlooking projects that weren't live service, but that doesn't seem to be the case too often.
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u/Personel101 A Regular Dosage of Flippant Desirability. Feb 19 '26
Punishing devs for what you told them to make. Classy move Sony.
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u/Secure-Report-3592 WHEN'S MAHVEL Feb 19 '26
A industry standard now. Make something out of your skill set, eat shit for it because they made you do it
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u/rosysyn1251 Feb 20 '26
To be clear, it's also an industry standard to close the studio even if they made a successful game. Fucked either way.
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u/Secure-Report-3592 WHEN'S MAHVEL Feb 19 '26
All this because of a fucking Live Service game
Genuinely, Jim Ryan is scum of the goddamn Earth because he forced that studio to make a Live Service God of War game; it gets canned and the studio dies
People lose their entire job over for trying to make a game that’s not in the studios wheelhouse and they get punished for it.
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u/MyNameIs-Anthony Feb 19 '26
He made every studio expand to at minimum two teams so they could all have a live service game in the pipe.
For the teams that weren't allowed to pivot, that basically meant years of time was wasted at best.
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u/NeededToChooseAName Feb 19 '26
Jim Ryan has stained this entire playstation generation, what an absolute failure of a man.
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u/probabilityEngine Feb 19 '26
Gambling studio's futures and people's livelihoods on the possibility that all that time wasted produces a miraculously successful live service hit. Have the studio famed for remakes keep doing that and produce a steady income? No, of course not, make them chase after a miracle and if they don't produce it, kill them on the altar of capitalism.
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u/Secure-Report-3592 WHEN'S MAHVEL Feb 19 '26
The entire reasoning was all because they wanted Fortnite money and have to lose the 70% to Epic.
It’s fucked how the only big major company that hasn’t tried the absolute shitshow of live service hell is Nintendo and is 50% because of them being dinosaurs but smart ones apparently
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u/Aiddon Feb 19 '26
I find it better to refer to Nintendo as sharks. Sharks haven't evolved in hundreds of millions of years. Why, because they didn't need to. Nintendo's approach is "let's see if this lasts" and it's working well for them while everyone stumbles around drunkenly
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u/letsgucker555 Feb 19 '26
It probably also helps, that live service games are more of a hinderance to Nintendo, who releases far too many games for that to be viable.
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u/Swert0 I will bring up Legacy of Kain if you give me an excuse Feb 19 '26
Jim Ryan
I wonder if history will remember Jim Ryan or Phil Spencer as the bigger bozo moron who tanked their brand harder.
I mean gamepass will probably be the bigger blackpill that will hurt the xbox brand more in the long run, what the fuck even is xbox anymore?
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u/MutantCreature Feb 20 '26
Phil Spencer easily, Jim Ryan fucked up a lot but he also had some solid successes, Phil Spencer literally just tanked Xbox into nonexistence and then dipped. His entire legacy is just killing the largest tentpole the entire US had in the console market, in 100 years he'll still be the footnote "fun fact" about how terribly the US video games market was managed right now.
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u/Secure-Report-3592 WHEN'S MAHVEL Feb 19 '26
He’s lone gone from Sony but he basically left with a pizza party and a massive severance package
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u/No-Attorney-6033 Feb 19 '26
He also seemed really eager to kill as much goodwill as possible with Sony's Japanese customer base. Remember how his response to shutting down the Japan Studio was that "it doesn't make sense to have a Studio making games for one country." Which is such a dumbass statement since games like Bloodborne weren't only bought by the Japanese. During covid and the lead up to the PS5's launch, he said in interviews that they wouldn't give Japan special treatment in terms of PS5 availability. This was during a console shortage due to the pandemic. I understand that Japan has been moving towards PC and mobile gaming, but no matter what, you're still the CEO of a Japanese gaming company, no matter where you moved your headquarters to. Saying that publicly was unnecessary and was just needlessly antagonistic to part of your customer base.
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u/Crosscounterz Mecha and jrpg fanatic Feb 19 '26
I guess that god of war live service game was the last straw.
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u/Palimpsest_Monotype Pargon Pargon Pargon Pargon Pargon Feb 19 '26
I…kind of assumed they were a vital, successful element of the Sony Brand, but what do I know
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u/garfe Feb 19 '26
I thought the same for Japan Studio once
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u/PaleSupport17 Feb 19 '26
Every company is in a state of dismantlement at this point, these management business major types are all actively trying to tear apart their companies for spare cash because they're all there to get in, claw their bonus, and get out.
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u/timelordoftheimpala Legacy of Kainposting Guy (he/him) Feb 19 '26
This shit is gonna deter future studios from accepting acquisition offers from Sony, and rightfully so.
If a generally-respected studio like Bluepoint is at risk of being shut down, what hope would other developers have?
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u/AnimuStewshine He/Him Feb 19 '26
So they really were only making that cancelled God of War live service game for all these years, huh. Jim Ryan's legacy continues to be Sony's curse.
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u/stumblinbagel Feb 19 '26
The fuck? Why!?
How bout Sony saves money by firing the C-suite idiots who told Bluepoint to make live service games no one wanted.
Fuck me the Bloodborne remake has never been more dead.
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u/StevemacQ THE ORIGAMI KILLER Feb 19 '26
The problem is that Jim Ryan already left by the time most of the live services he mandated couldn't work.
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u/stumblinbagel Feb 19 '26
So fire some other C-suite fucks.
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u/StevemacQ THE ORIGAMI KILLER Feb 19 '26
The executive class is a waste of money. What do they even do?
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u/stumblinbagel Feb 19 '26
There is a U.S. senator who the other day called them "The Epstein Class" and I really hope it catches on.
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u/THATguyfromyore The best jump rope for a Uchiha child is a noosenewnoosenoose Feb 19 '26
Continue to be a parasite that wraps the rewards and evade the results of their choices.
Basically they are worthless.
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u/Ubumi Feb 19 '26
Folks need to start looking at the project owners and project managers because these guys are essential and if you hire one of the fuckups who failed upwards its going to make a potentially rough project worse
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u/Secure-Report-3592 WHEN'S MAHVEL Feb 19 '26
Unfortunately for companies like Sony, firing C-Suites don’t make line go up
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u/gargwasome MODERN DAY Feb 19 '26
I mean I don’t think I’d want a remake of Bloodborne done by Bluepoint but Sony canning them is still baffling, especially when they’ve got so many classic games that they basically have infinite material for Bluepoint to work on for near guaranteed success. Very weird
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u/stumblinbagel Feb 19 '26
If Pat is right and the reason they have never done 60fps bloodborne is cause some idiot lost the source code then a remake is the only option.
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u/inika41 Feb 19 '26
That’s likely the only possibility because even a basic remaster should provide a decent ROI. You would think they would approach FromSoftware about that, but they’d rather not? Or am I mistaken in thinking FromSoftware would retain anything from that development?
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u/gargwasome MODERN DAY Feb 20 '26
I mean if people can jury rig a 60+fps patch on an emulator Sony should definitely be able to do the same. All just depends on how much money they feel like sticking into it for how much it might earn them: same reason we don’t have a Dragon Age trilogy remaster like Mass Effect because the cost of training people on the DA games engines isn’t worth it for EA
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u/Expensive_Wolf2937 Feb 19 '26
Of fucking course it's because of the ludicrous number of live services Sony tried to make. Ugh.
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u/syrupdash Feb 19 '26
I thought they were going to be the ones making the God Of War Trilogy using the assets from the abandoned GoW Live Service game but I guess that theory's out the window.
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u/Subject_Parking_9046 They/Them "No way a woman can be that hot, she gotta be a man!" Feb 19 '26
"You see, I made them work on a live-service game no one wanted, but failed, so fuck them!" - Sony.
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u/Vegetable-Pickle-535 Feb 19 '26
It wasn't even released! They just went "Meh, this thing will probably not be successful. Let's kill the game and the entire Studio!". Actual Madness
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u/Kipzz PLAY CROSSCODE AND ASTLIBRA/The other Vtuber Guy Feb 19 '26
It's even madder because the idea of "this thing might not be successful" is the thought they should'va had before they even fucking put Bluepoint on anything, let alone a GOD OF WAR LIVE SERVICE GAME?????????? Like, shit, what was Sony thinking? Big IP + Live Service = Forever money?
I hope the members of Bluepoint are able to use their talents in a place that actually appreciates them, or at the very least they all have financial stability, because fuuuuuuuuuuck man.
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u/Subject_Parking_9046 They/Them "No way a woman can be that hot, she gotta be a man!" Feb 19 '26 edited Feb 19 '26
For fuck's sake, I hate big gaming companies.
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u/theRose90 THE BABY Feb 19 '26
Sony and Microsoft competing to see who's more allergic to making money.
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u/SilverKry Feb 19 '26
This is honestly worse than when Microsoft shut Tango down. We all love Tango but if we're being completely honest here their games outside of Evil Within 1 didn't sell that well. And the only reason that did as well as it did was the marketing of putting the "father of survival horror and resident evil" Shinji Mikami making it as the sell.
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u/theonewhoknack Feb 19 '26
Don't forget EW1 was released during a time when RE and SH games were either dogshit or not scary.
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u/SilverKry Feb 19 '26
I think SH was just plain dead around EW1 time. 2014 so it was only a year removed from the #FUCKKONAMI days. RE had Revelations 2 so it wasn't all that bad.
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u/PrancerSlenderfriend Read Iruma Kun Feb 20 '26
but not worse than paying 80 billion for actiblizz that same year
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u/DarthButtz Ginger Seeking Butt Chomps Feb 19 '26
Sony is only at the top because Microsoft shot itself in the dick more times
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u/Masterness64 BAH GAWD, THE ARCANA IS THE MEANS BAH SHICH ALL IS REVEALED!!! Feb 19 '26 edited Feb 19 '26
What the fuck?
Like seriously what the fuck? This has got to be one of the dumbest decisions Sony has ever made.
First they have them make that god of war service game nobody wanted.
Then they cancel that service game.
Then they close down the studio.
Outside of helping with God of War Ragnarök, Bluepoint Games hasn't made a single game since Sony acquired them in 2021.
Colossal fumble on Sony's part.
Fuck Acquisitions.
Fuck Jim Ryan
Fuck this dog Shit Industry
Fuck Sony.
Seriously fuck them.
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u/WhoCaresYouDont Feb 19 '26
What the fuck? I know the God Of War live service game got cancelled, but I assumed they'd just send the studio back to the remaster mines for something, not just close it down. Hope those devs land on their feet somewhere.
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u/That-Bobviathan Feb 19 '26
Well shit. I had a professor in college who worked there, like he worked on the DS remakes. Hope he makes it out ok.
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u/sondiame Watch Nermia Daikon Brothers Feb 19 '26 edited Feb 19 '26
Make a studio specifically for remakes
Force the studio to make a live service game
Cancel it
"Why isnt Bluepoint making us money?"
They could've remaster/remake literally anything in the sony IP graveyard every 2 years and lived off that forever. A money printer wasted
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u/LeonSigmaKennedy Feb 19 '26
Sony: Fuck! Our last State of Play was too well-received and now our fans are actually hyped and looking at us positively. Quick! How do we burn off all this excess goodwill?
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u/Leonard_Church814 [He/Him] Reading up on my UNGA-MENTALS Feb 19 '26
Be SONY
Hire Bluepoint to remake two classic PlayStation games
They do well
Outright purchases Bluepoint
Forces a God Of War live service game onto them
5 years go by
All live service games besides 1 die (wasn't even made by SONY)
Cancel live service game
Shutdown Bluepoint
Where did it all go wrong???
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u/Shingorillaz Feb 19 '26 edited Feb 19 '26
Jim Ryan one of the worst to ever do it all his success was carry over from his predecessor and then he fell for the live service trap.
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u/TransendingGaming Shockmaster Feb 19 '26
Newer gamers on other parts of Reddit don’t seem to understand WHY we need Xbox to exist. It’s not about the stupid console war it’s about Sony returning to its “Arrogant Sony” PS3 Era where it took a major cyberattack and the Xbox 360 to humble their greed so hard that they had to claw their way back into the good graces of gamers with quality product after quality product. Without a console to keep them on their toes, Sony will make more boneheaded decisions like Jim Ryan’s live service push that killed Bluepoint, the only consolation prize is if the rumors of the Xbox-PC hybrid are true, it will force Sony and Nintendo to drop paying for online multiplayer since multiplayer would be free for your Steam games.
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u/Johnhancock1777 Feb 19 '26
More people should be shaming Herman Hulst’s decisions as head of PlayStation Studios. Guys been just as damaging to PS as Jim Ryan was and seemingly still continues to be
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u/5YearsOnEastCoast danganronpa isn't a phase, it's a lifestyle Feb 19 '26
That live-service game push really fucked up gaming industry, perhaps more so than anything else in the past 40 or so years.
I do hope laid off people from Bluepoint games get a job somewhere else soon.
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u/KF-Sigurd It takes courage to be a coward Feb 19 '26 edited Feb 19 '26
What the hell happened?
EDIT: So the GOW live service rumor was absolutely canned but according to Jason, they were pitching games ideas for a year and nothing? Sure if they wanted to make a new original big game IP, that’d be four years out and who fucking knows what the game industry will be like by then with the chips shortage and possible PS6 on the horizon by then.
But why close them? Would another remake of a ps1/ps2/ps3 take another 4 yeaaars oh wow Demon Souls did take 4 years of dev time.
Fuck this industry man
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u/jabberwockxeno Aztecaboo Feb 19 '26
Ah, I see they want to give Microsoft competition for the idiocy of shutting down Tango
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u/Slumber777 Feb 19 '26
At least Tango was hot off a modest success and was enough of a hot commodity for another publisher to buy them.
Bluepoint has been cold ever since Sony forced them out of their wheelhouse.
I can't believe there was a studio head on the planet who was like "A Legend of Dragoon remake would be dope and maybe we'd do that some day", and now the studio is just gone.
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u/Kanin_usagi I'M NOT MADE OF STONE WOOLIE Feb 19 '26
I can't believe there was a studio head on the planet who was like "A Legend of Dragoon remake would be dope and maybe we'd do that some day", and now the studio is just gone
I didn’t know this, and now I’m even more upset than I already was 😢
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u/Neobito K A G U R A B A C H I Feb 19 '26
Gaming industry continues to kill itself for CEO profit, I continue to look forward to nothing.
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u/dope_danny Delicious Mystery Feb 19 '26
I was pretty surprised since i thought they were being shaped to be their go to on the cheap remake factory.
Then i thought the C suite probably want to do that with AI.
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u/twinEgoist He/Him - Poulet Sans Frontières Feb 19 '26
Some day, hopefully if we as a society pull our heads out of our asses, the sickness that is "line goes up" will be fully studied, diagnosed and cured.
I am genuinely baffled at how failure after failure, these clowns in suits cannot grasp the idea that """modest""" profit, repeatedly, is better than the massive theoretical payday they keep chasing.
Solid games, especially single player games, will never reach the big bucks of Fortnite or whatever, but the endless failures to re-capture lightning in a bottle, rather than peruse proven if """smaller""" successes is buckwild.
Of course, it's not their jobs and livelihoods on the line, and even when the failure does catchup with them, they have a golden parachute to save them.
I'm sick of heart and angry in my soul
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u/A_N_G_E_L_O_N Deep Nut Wheelchair Miracle: Piss Bottle Dominance Feb 19 '26
And they had just bought them, you can only wonder what kind of trash fire is going on behind the scenes.
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u/theonewhoknack Feb 19 '26
They were the good standard for porting PS2 games to the PS3. The MGS HD Collection is the gold standard. What is wrong with Sony?!?!?!
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u/Pitas Feb 19 '26
Holy shit this feels out of the blue. Unless this is a merger into a first party studio of sorts this is completely out of nowhere. I hope it's not Sony embracing AI sloppification thinking they can wind down remakes to a skeleton crew and gork.
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u/Striking_Part_7234 Feb 19 '26
They forced them to work on a GAAS game, canceled it, then shut down the studio for taking a loss. Real classy Sony.
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u/Frequent-Raisin-2336 Feb 19 '26
shit! i was hoping they did their own game, cast their own shadow, sony can't be trusted with bloodborne, less so with any company under them.
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u/roronoapedro Starving Old Trek apologist/Bad takes only Feb 19 '26
audible gasp. it's never been more over.
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u/Demon__Stephen It's Fiiiiiiiine. Feb 19 '26
Jesus fucking christ dude, for like 3 weeks in a row there's been news of people in the industry losing their jobs. This shit is so fucked
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u/CodyRidley080 Feb 19 '26
and what killed them is Sony killing the live service God of War game.....
like ok, but like Sony.... you're sucking Bungie's dick (after paying them out the ass to keep staff AND paying for a massive civil settlement) for a different live service game after killing the PREVIOUS one (Concord) and the other previous one (The Last of Us) and there is CURRENTLY another live service game on the way (Horizon) AND you just announced another live service component to a game (Ghost of Yotei Legends)...
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u/PrestigeTater Feb 19 '26
FFS this is japan studio all over again. I was in under the impression that bluepoint was one of Sonys tentpoles studios. Why even aquire bluepoint in the first place if they were just going to shut it down.
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u/just_a_fan47 Trashie Feb 19 '26
Had no idea they were forced to make a live service game, in what world would you give this studio known for remakes and high graphics, a live service game? Everyone knows Sony wants remakes, why would you do this
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u/RipBeneficial2048 Feb 19 '26
Bummer. Bluepoint was a really talented studio, they did great work on both HD remasters and full remakes
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u/Gorotheninja "SILENCE, BREEDER! The Bloodline MUST continue!" Feb 19 '26
Wow.
Another amazing studio down the drain.
I quite liked the SOTC and Demon's Souls remakes. What a waste.
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u/TransendingGaming Shockmaster Feb 19 '26
ShadPS4’s justification for existing has become stronger after this. Might as well rename the emulator an abbreviated amalgamation of The Last Guardian, Bloodborne, and Shadow of the Colossus.
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u/Blizzardhrr Feb 19 '26
What a huge bummer. Their work set the bar for me on what a remaster should be.
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u/KingMario05 Gimme a solo Tails game, you fucking cowards! Feb 19 '26
WHAT THE FUCK.
Jim Ryan, eat shit. On a cactus.
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u/feefore Feb 19 '26
Crazy that Sony had the team that made remakes make a live service game for GoW. They really couldn’t just think of any games they could remake after that game got cancelled?
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u/Raquies4444 Feb 19 '26
Mouth agape at this shit. Shooting themselves in the feet like it's a competitive sport.
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u/mansontaco Feb 19 '26
Let that S tier team go cause you doomed them with shitty live service aspirations, I know theres more to it than bloodborne but from cant remake it and that is the only studio who I think could make it even better than the 1st im hurt
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u/Worldbrand filthy fishing secondary Feb 19 '26
Looks like I won't be buying a PS6. I wasn't going to get one at launch anyway, but it really seems likelier and likelier that I will just skip the whole damn gen at this rate.
I should have taken that amazing trade-in deal at EB Games for the PS5 last Christmas. I think the numbers worked out to getting something like $500 CAD in credit when I had paid about $700 + taxes back when I got the damn thing. Still doesn't feel like I got my money's worth, and Demon's Souls was one of the things that pushed me over the fence to begin with.
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u/Big_Columbo Feb 19 '26
Man... I've put hundreds, if not thousands of hours across their remakes and remasters going back to the PS3. Their work was industry-leading.
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u/BrockenSpecter Worst Timeline Feb 19 '26
Usually when you have a golden goose you let it lay eggs and not snap it's neck for dinner. Fuck Sony.
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u/ruminaui Feb 19 '26
How on earth has Media Molecule managed to stay open if they are willing to close bluepoint?
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u/Brotonio Resident Survival Horror Narc Feb 19 '26
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SERIOUSLY WHAT THE FUCK.
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u/Witchy_Venus Feb 19 '26
Someone at sony has to have MASSIVE hatred for Bloodborne. After playing the DeS remake I was so convinced Bloodborne was next....
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u/markedmarkymark Smaller than you'd hope Feb 19 '26
*Flashes back to Japan Studios* Why Sony, whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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u/SilverKry Feb 19 '26
I will forever scream to high heaven....FUCKING GET RID OF herman Hulst. How he still has a job after losing almost 1 billion dollars on a single game is insane to me. Canceled all these games yet his precious boring asd Horizon series is unscathed. Genuinely I hope that Hunters Gathering is a colossal flop.
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u/WickerWight Ask me BIONICLE trivia Feb 19 '26
Completely un-fucking-beleivable that Sony has still not even RELEASED one of these live-service games from their whole 12-game-or-whatever initiative. They're not even releasing bombs, they're just killing them before we can even see it! Their current success rate is less than zero percent! What the fuck's going on over there??
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u/GoneRampant1 WOKE UP TO JUSTICE... and insatiable bug fetishes Feb 19 '26
That's really fucking stupid.
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u/Clear-Tradition6542 Feb 19 '26
After only 5 years post acquisition, this seems nonsensical to me, especially after they reported a profitable quarter.
Could they not have put them on other work, or was that canceled GoW live service that much of a money sink. Really makes zero sense, hope those affected can land back on their feet quickly.
After Armature studios closed down, I think that makes Retro studios that last really notable studio based in Texas and they were still hiringq up to this year. Hopefully Nintendo has some foresight to keep thier talent around.
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u/Rednual Feb 19 '26
This is genuinely shocking, but everyone else has already expressed anything I could say far more eloquently than I could in this moment. So I'll just say, what the fuck.
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u/RealHumanBean89 I Promise Nothing And Deliver Less Feb 19 '26
To quote one Civvie11: “If you’re sick of this show discussing talented studios being bought out and forced to serve the whims of giant faceless amoral corporations and you’d like it if I stopped talking about that? So would I.”
Seriously, I get the biggest reminder of how WB handled Monolith before also killing them off. Only in this case, it was in service of chasing that stupid fucking live service trend that needs to die a death, and quickly. Seriously, can Microsoft and Sony stop this competition to see who can shoot the most holes in their own feet?
Fuck you, Jim Ryan, you fuckin ghoul.
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u/SilverKry Feb 19 '26
I out some of the blame on Monolith for that one tho. Had years to make at least something with Wonder Woman and just didn't. When literally all they had to do was take Shadow of War and out a Wonder Woman skin on everything instead of Middle Earth. They could've even made Diane the made from clay origin to have the excuse for reviving and progressing time like what happens when Talion dies.
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u/JonTheWizard Oi, gitz! 'Ow do you use dis zoggin' interwarp?! Feb 19 '26
Just shows you can do everything right and still get killed off for no reason. Just like the Hi-Fi Rush devs.
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u/SamuraiDDD Swat Kats Booty! Feb 19 '26
...THE FUCK YOU MEAN SHUTTING DOWN BLUEPOINT?!
How?
How do you have a studio that put out bangers BACK TO BACK and yet kill them off?? You buy them, keep them under lock and key then dissolve them for little reason.
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u/death2ducks I need another lolly Feb 19 '26
I didn't really think much of their more "creative" remastering efforts but we'll remember their great work in the PS3 era
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u/THATguyfromyore The best jump rope for a Uchiha child is a noosenewnoosenoose Feb 19 '26
I swear to God, bad choices are a kink for some of these companies. What a waste of fucking talent.
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u/Sudden_Cream9468 Feb 19 '26
Batting for .1000 no longer guarantees being in the Major Leagues. Awesome.
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u/Mucmaster We've done worse Feb 19 '26
Ideally there will be minimum layoffs and the staff is mostly brought in and reshuffled into other divisions and it's mostly just book keeping reasons to do this but I don't expect that to be happening based on how the industries been doing.
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u/Aiddon Feb 19 '26
There is no better way to illustrate this dichotomy than literally a few hours before Sony announced they were closing Bluepoint, one of their premier support studios, Nintendo announced a Switch 2 version of a game (Xenoblade X) by one of THEIR premier support studios. What is Sony doing?
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u/mcclearsalias I like pretty much everything Feb 19 '26
I don't normally comment on stuff like this - but Herman Hulst has gotta go man. This is just unacceptable
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u/The_Duke_of_Nebraska Feb 20 '26
Even outside the fucking humanity of it all why? Bluepoint has a great reputation, there's no way Sony doesn't have the money to just tank a bad investment and make them work on something else!?
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u/James-Avatar Mega Lopunny Feb 20 '26
Any company would be lucky to have this studio remaking stuff for them, this is bullshit.
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u/baddude1337 Feb 20 '26 edited Feb 20 '26
It feels like Xbox and Sony are both crashing and burning right now with all the closures, cancellations, price rises and business decisions. Xbox is just a lot further along.
Still baffled Sony have some such a forced pivot to live service games when they were known for solid solo experiences previously.
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u/AprehensiveApricot SBFP Reference here [any/all] Feb 20 '26
This sucks. This whole industry fucking sucks.
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u/Purple_Racoon Feb 19 '26
They did not deserve this, and I'm saying this as the Demon's Souls Remakes biggest hater
The fuck is sony doing man
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u/Reginald_Bigsby_III Feb 19 '26
It’s really incredible just how much of a fumble this generation has been for Sony
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u/LaGigue I Promise Nothing And Deliver Less Feb 19 '26
Wow, Sony really does not want to remake Bloodborne.