Sony is shutting down Bluepoint Games

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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.

If they had nothing good from themselves to show, Sony could have gave them an assignment for now, like... massively helping Santa Monica with the remake of God of War so their own devs can focus on how to make it the best experience, while Bluepoint was building them the assets.

Unless Bluepoint was adamant on not doing it, in which case just change their lead and do it anyway, why would they not have their devs that are excellent on remakes working on their biggest remake ever?

It's infuriatingly stupid.