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.

Bluepoint was working on a God of War live-service game until it was canceled early last year. The studio then spent the last year pitching and trying to determine what it would do next.

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[–] 151 points 8 months ago (9 children)

What a needlessly stupid thing it was to put them on a live service project, and what a waste to close it down.

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    This is such a horrific mismanagement of a studio it makes me question if the studio itself wanted to make a live service game and bit off more than they could chew. Because if this is on Sony, and it does have Sony written all over it, then they're legitimately worse than EA. It's like a low I didn't even know existed because it would be an astonishing level of incompetence.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Word is this live service push was Jim Ryan's initiative, and he left the company right before it all fell apart.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    But that happened in 2024, Sony had the whole of 2025 to figure out what to do with the studio and it's not like they don't have highly desirable games to remake cough Bloodborne cough for a studio known for excellent remakes. I just want to know what the hell happened in 2025 for the studio to get literally no projects greenlit by Sony? Is Sony still continuing its stupid live service push or did the studio no longer want to make remakes or what the problem was? The path forward is so clear you don't even need a business degree to make the decision that could've kept this studio alive so what the hell happened?

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    What happened is that pivoting from a bad idea like this takes a long time and a lot of money for a company this large, and they had no plan B, which is stupid, so they'd rather just reduce their operating expenses.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    It doesn't take a whole year to pivot, unless they sit on their ass for that whole year. I'm not saying it's not possible they did that but it would be an insane level of incompetence.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    I think it has to be insane levels of incompetence. They're not patient enough to wait around for 3 years for Bluepoint to put out something that makes money, so they probably gave them some busy work, like support work for other studios, until they could go through the bureaucracy of closing the studio.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    A few years back when Sony purchased Bungie, they stated they wanted to focus more on live service games. I think they wanted to release 10 live service games over 10 years. That means they need a variety of their studios working on them, even if it isn't their specialization. This is definitely a Sony decision and a stupid one at that.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Let's assume it was the studio's idea. They wanted to make a game that wasn't their specialty and Sony let them do it because they didn't want to stifle creativity. Now it failed miserably.

    Sony isn't going to get the money they lost, so why not course correct and put the studio on what they specialise in?

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  • [–] 135 points 8 months ago (22 children)

    If only there were some other incredibly highly desired From Software game that people have been shouting at Sony to assign to the Bluepoint team specifically to remake.

    You know, an obvious choice with an existing fanbase that would literally open their wallets and tell Sony to take whatever they want in order to play it.

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  • [–] 53 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    Yeah. I wouldn't mind a Jak and Daxter trilogy remake either.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Add in daxter and X and I'll throw them my wallet.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Throw in a few ratchet and clank games and I'd do unholy things

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    At least we have fan made PC ports

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  • [–] 39 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Don't even need to remake or remaster. Just make it 60fps, and so many people would buy it again.

    I'll never understand why Sony leaves so much money on the table re Bloodborne

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  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago

    It makes me think there must be something more to the story. Bad blood? FromSoft not wanting to make it an exclusive?

    Otherwise, I just don't get it either. I'm not a businessman, but that seems as close to risk-free money as you can get.

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago

    I was 100% certain that Sonys plan, and general silence around Bloodborne, was to have bluepoint due a remake as an eventual PS6 exclusive to drive some sales when that comes out. Guess I was wrong.

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I want a modern Tenchu game too, but I don't think it's going to happen.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Yeah, I've been waiting for a remaster of The Adventures of Cookie & Cream this whole time...

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I actually had that game, but I don't remember anything about it.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    All I remember about Cookie and Cream was fighting with my player 2 cause we couldn't get far in the first level at all

    Granted, I think I was like 6 or 7 at the time, so I imagine the game isn't that hard, but in my head it's the dark souls of my childhood

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  • [–] 61 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    NO...

    I was hoping for the Demon's Souls remake to get ported to PC as I would love to play the game again. A PC version of the game was included in the same Nvidia leak that showed Helldivers 2 before it was announced. Every showcase, I was wondering where Bluepoint were... And now they went under.

    Complete insanity that Sony forced them to do a live service game for the past few years. Bluepoint was practically an art studio, they could've spent the next 20 years just remaking old games and make bank. What were they thinking?

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  • [–] 48 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Sony was thinking “money me, money now, money money money, big money, money now”

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    Yeah well if Sony would have just let em cook and provided me with PC ports of Bloodborne and Demon's Souls then they would have happily received my money. Instead they get to recieve an extended middle finger.

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  • [–] 45 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Bluepoint was working on a God of War live-service game until it was canceled early last year.

    Maybe this was for the best, if that was their best idea to move forward with. I feel like people are getting tired of cookie-cutter live service games coming out every year.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    My main issue with live service games is that I just don't have the fucking time to invest in them.

    I've yet to see a game move to live service that didn't just pad out all the busy work and fuck with the pacing of any story element.

    Give me a single player experience that I can push up 6 months later and not have to grind to get back to where ever I was.

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  • [–] 35 points 8 months ago

    this is so insane on its face that the first place my mind goes is, were they about to unionize?

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago

    Hey guys, I know you made really good remasters of classic single-player games, but can you make us something nobody on this motherfucking Earth asked for?

    Oh wait, we don't want you do do that any more.

    Why aren't you making us any money?

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago

    Crazy. They could have at least put them on a new remake project. I don't understand closing studios that are provenly productive. Replace leadership. Replace directors/leads if they're not proving to lead well or their ideas aren't panning out commercially but don't shutter the whole studio. Like 343 Halo games aren't critical success but they deliver products. Obsidian games aren't selling great currently but they ship products on the regular. Bluepoint could be making smaller games like Twisted Metal. More remakes. Jak and Daxter remakes or sequels. Square Enix get's a lot of flak like every mega publisher but I think they're great for making a bunch of smaller AA games along with big games like Final Fantasy

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Is it viable for a studio like this to just reform under a new name and continue doing what they love?

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    A studio is only ever as good as its people. Those people will move to other things, sometimes they will group together under a new name. So yes, totally possible, you just might not recognize them if it happens.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    Ha.. I bought a PS5 just to finally play the Deamons Souls remake.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    That and Bloodborne for me. But Returnal had just come out at the time, and that is also good (tho no longer exclusive). I also keep forgrtting the system I got was bundled with God of War: Ragnarok and I have never even installed it... 🤔

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago*

    It took me a couple years to install GoW Ragnarok, was also included with my purchase. I really preferred the first one over it tbh. I only got like halfway through because Atreus got to be insufferable with the marvel-esque "I fight for my friends" type dialogue. Like the first one feels raw, and the story is tight, combat and gameplay is basically the same. But Ragnarok tries to do too much in its story at once it feels like and just has this cringe-y air to it, idk.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Oh, to be in your shoes again. You have hours & hours of one of the best media pieces of any form ever ahead of you. I found out how incredible it is in every aspect late. Story, gameplay, visuals, sound, feel, emotions…

    Prepare for some of the best gaming of your life so far.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    This is even more stupid than Microsoft shutting down studios. It makes literally no sense.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Man, I really loved the Demon Souls Remaster. It was absolutely gorgeous.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    It was kind of weird to me how a lot of folks didn't seem happy with that one. I played the hell out of the original and the remake was almost 1:1 aside from the graphical updates and a small handful of QoL. They did a phenomenal job with it and really nailed the combat and vibes of the original in the best ways.

    Dropping the entire studio like this is so fucked.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    That makes no sense

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    Hey there I heard you definitely want live service games right? Oh sorry you said remakes? No you must mean live service! /s

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Probably because not enough people are buying PS5s. You all didn't rent a PS5, so now small indie company Sony has to dissolve a studio. It's not the executive's fault, it's the consumer's fault, obviously.

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    I step out of the executive office

    This is a great lesson that business people are like, super smart, ok guys, so don't try to tell THEM how to make Video Games while not failing catastrophically OK? Those artists set themselves up to fail by not taking business seriously before business people took their art seriously.

    Also go back to work! You are artists, your time is worth NOTHING!!! Do you want to get fired like those Playstation employees?

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    For AI use ofcourse.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago*

    Idk if related but why is Sony is not very confident they are gonna make good stuff istg.
    And also I hope they make it a independent company or Smth ig.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    No Games Station becomes more and more true over time. Trend chasing failures is the new Sony trend.

    PS4 was so disappointing to me after 1/2/3 and it's sad to see continued decline.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Meanwhile, Naughty Dog keeps milking the last great game they produced in 2013.

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  • [–] -4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Why is there a picture of some bald ugly dude instead of something like a bluepoint logo or a Sony one?

    Ridiculous

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