It's bad enough that they let single-player studios work on live service games. But it's far worse to waste the years of work that went into those games by cancelling them. Some might have turned out decent and successful, I just don't trust the higher ups ability to judge quality. For all I know the Concord trauma may have put them on panic-auto-pilot. Remember... even Shuhei Yoshida once thought Demon's Souls was garbage... Imagine if it was cancelled and Miyazaki took it to heart and gave up on making video games. Holy shit.

Some of Sony's decisions and priorities are stupid beyond belief. A few days ago Shu shared his "theory" on why Sony is ignoring Bloodborne, which implies they really are doing nothing with the IP. How out of touch do you gotta be to not understand the popularity of FromSoftware games on PC? Why does Sony refuse to port their bigger Japanese games? Demon's Souls, Bloodborne, and Gran Turismo 7 are guaranteed million sellers on Steam. Bloodborne and GT7 should be able to sell 5+ million each. But "Nope, we're busy and excited porting Sackboy and Rift Apart!"

Tragic Waste in regards to both studios but didn't Bluepoint also say they are working on their own IP?

https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2024/11/12/bluepoint-games-playstation-exclusive-new-ip/

After sleeping on it, I'm not as disappointed as I was yesterday, but I'm still shocked about live service God of War lol.

Looking back on Bend and Bluepoint on PS4 and their current games being cancelled doesn't really impact the rest of the PS5's lifecycle all that much. It's really only Bend that is missing from the equation.

Bluepoint always said "Original content", as opposed to a remake, and people assumed they were working on a new IP. 

Bend should just work on pumping out Days Gone 2. Make it shorter, less open world and get it pushed out quicker and finish the story with it. Might not sell a ton but I think it will do well enough.

I wouldn't mind Bend doing another Uncharted game either. That's practically a 10M+ seller.

I wouldn't mind this either but not sure ND will be ok with that. 

I don't think Naughty Dog would mind Bend doing another Uncharted game, as they already did Golden Abyss.