Sony is shutting down Bluepoint Games

[Otter]

PotentHerbs said:

This floored me man, WTF.

I don't even blame Sony for Bluepoint deciding to work on a live service God of War game. They had nothing going on from 2021 to 2023 other than supporting SMS with GoWR. Their live service pitch wasn't greenlit until 2023 before ultimately getting cancelled in 2025. Sony should've known better to even greenlight such a project.

Its unfortunate to see Sony fumble Bluepoint when they clearly had value as the premiere remake studio.

I've mention this on the article page, but I think we should not assume bluepoints preference was to make a live service game.

When Sony announced their live service push, the only way you achieve that is through making some portion of your developers make live service games. There's no way they would allow all of their developers to just continue work on single player experiences when their mission was to produce 12+ live service games in 4 years.

When bend studio wanted to work on Days Gone 2 sony said no. Days gone sold like 8m... Personally do not think there needed to be a sequel but I just think we have to be realistic about the actual choices that were presented to BP as opposed to thinking a live service GOW was their dream project lol 

Last edited by Otter - 14 hours ago