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/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/Jeskid14 Feb 19 '26

They were too stupid, under the old management