https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-19/sony-is-shutting-down-the-playstation-studio-bluepoint

A stronger contender for the most stupid decision for the year is here.

Sony bought a studio known for high quality ports and remakes.

Gave them God of War, one of their biggest single player IPs, to make... a live service game...

The game is cancelled before release.

Sony announced a remake for the original trilogy of said IP, God of War, great time to use Bluepoint.

One week later they shut down Bluepoint Games.

Why did you even buy the studio, Sony? Why did you kill a good studio with talented people without even trying to use it for what it is known to do well?

I'm so sick of these fucking idiots in the decision making fucking up talented people, they make shitty decisions, it doesn't work, the talented people carries the weight of said stupid decisions and get their job and lives destroyed.

It's been confirmed by Herman Hulst via an internal email

The GAAS was cancelled, and I guess they couldn't get on the same page for a full new game. But surely there was a remake project they could have taken up lol. Bloodborne for example.

Shame.

Updated the title to delete the "reportedly", thank you.

Such a massive waste of talent, and took it away from the market where others could have used their work too.

Hope as much people as possible can stay employed at other Sony studios, and that everyone else can find other jobs asap too.

How it wasn't decided to have Bluepoint go from the cancelled live service God of War game to heading development on the God of War remake trilogy will forever be one of the biggest fumbles!

Like, it was right there!

I said this in the comments of the article but this sucks for the BP employees but it's probably good news for the gaming companies based in Austin who can scoop up the talent.

Retro Studios looking for this opportunity right now

Aren't most of BP former Retro studios employees anyway? Full circle moment I guess.

Sony bought them in 2021 and did cuss all with them. A live-service game was cancelled and who knows if anything else that the employee's time was wasted on.
It's almost like Sony had a contingency plan when buying them that if they closed them eventually at least Microsoft or someone else didn't buy them.