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.
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.
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?
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.
I’ve completed Jak 2, had a single crash the whole game, I think the oficial HD collection had more issues than that. Jak 3 is not done though, can’t wait to try it once they finish with it
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.
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.
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?
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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… 🤔
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.
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.
If it’s any consolation, it has a pretty excellent catalog and has been my favorite PS since 2. I’m just a sucker for immersion, though, and the controller has that in spades.
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?
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.
Their service game strategy has been a total disaster from start to finish. Good thing the ps6 is delayed so that playstation gamers can hopefully see some exclusivities before the next gen.
Wow. The whole console space is really going down the drain, isn’t it? Disappointing generations, hardware shortages, price increases, stupid live-service initiatives nobody wants, ever more subscriptions, and closing of studios that would usually turn out hits as long as you let them work in peace… Thank god for indie studios, retro consoles, PC gaming and a backlog that will last me three lifetimes.
Yeah, as someone who’s mostly been a console peasant my whole life I’ve found myself gravitating heavily towards the Steam Deck, both for native games and emulators. I have a mid-range PC, but I’m much more likely to sit down and play a game on the TV rather than at a desk. The Steam Machine would have been perfect for me, but I know it’s going to cost way more than I’m willing to spend, so I’ll be sticking to my Deck, PS5, and PC for the foreseeable future. It seems unlikely I’ll ever get a new Nintendo or Sony console at this point and any future hardware upgrades will be PC related.
You could just build your own Steam Machine - it’s just a mid-range PC with SteamOS. Stick it all in an ITX or a HTPC case and get a controller.
Or cheaper yet, upgrade your desktop PC, buy a NVIDIA shield and run Moonlight/Sunshine - it’s simple and cheap to play games from the couch these days.
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
It happens all the time, but you need startup capital. And a lot of what they did is remaking games (at high quality) that they don’t own the rights to.
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.
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.
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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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?
Hey there I heard you definitely want live service games right? Oh sorry you said remakes? No you must mean live service! /s
this is so insane on its face that the first place my mind goes is, were they about to unionize?
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.
Yeah. I wouldn’t mind a Jak and Daxter trilogy remake either.
Add in daxter and X and I’ll throw them my wallet.
Throw in a few ratchet and clank games and I’d do unholy things
Fuck yeah, I want the good old anti consumerism OG rachet and clanks.
At least we have fan made PC ports
Yup. OpenGOAL is pretty good, but Jak 2 & Jak 3 are still incomplete and have issues.
I’ve completed Jak 2, had a single crash the whole game, I think the oficial HD collection had more issues than that. Jak 3 is not done though, can’t wait to try it once they finish with it
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
Why make tens of millions when you can lose hundreds of millions?
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.
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.
I want a modern Tenchu game too, but I don’t think it’s going to happen.
I’ll take Sekiro 2
I think the reason Sekiro 1 happened was that they started making a Tenchu game and then changed their minds.
Yeah, I’ve been waiting for a remaster of The Adventures of Cookie & Cream this whole time…
Insanely underrated game and one of the best co-op titles of the PS2 generation
I actually had that game, but I don’t remember anything about it.
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
Average early FromSoft game experience:
Though not gonna lie, Metal Wolf Chaos 2 would go very hard.
A re-release of the Otogi games would be great!
What a needlessly stupid thing it was to put them on a live service project, and what a waste to close it down.
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.
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?
That’s what is puzzling me. How was it so impossible to course correct the studio when it’s absolutely obvious how to put two and two together?
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.
Word is this live service push was Jim Ryan’s initiative, and he left the company right before it all fell apart.
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?
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.
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.
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.
For AI use ofcourse.
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.
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.
You can just smell the shitty decision making that some executive went thru. Prolly the same exec that pulled the trigger on the layoffs.
I’ve been tired of live service games since before fortnite had battle royale.
I don’t even know how you’d do that with God of war.
Ha… I bought a PS5 just to finally play the Deamons Souls remake.
It’s was an okay remake. Bluepoint changed the art style and for some reason there’s no way to delete a single save without deleting everything.
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… 🤔
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.
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.
Exactly, after I finished DS I bought Bloodborne, when I finished this too I’ll sell the PS5. And it’s probably a good time for this. 🤓
Well, this seems to be the first console generation that is going up in price over time.
If it’s any consolation, it has a pretty excellent catalog and has been my favorite PS since 2. I’m just a sucker for immersion, though, and the controller has that in spades.
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?
Sony was thinking “money me, money now, money money money, big money, money now”
Which apparently backfired spectacularly.
They’re too busy making more money-sink Spider-man movies without Spider-man.
It’s Morbin’ Time!
Charlie was quite the writer
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.
Their service game strategy has been a total disaster from start to finish. Good thing the ps6 is delayed so that playstation gamers can hopefully see some exclusivities before the next gen.
I’d forgotten that was on the Nvidia list. Wasn’t many misses on there. Final Fantasy IX remake was another big one that never surfaced.
Wow. The whole console space is really going down the drain, isn’t it? Disappointing generations, hardware shortages, price increases, stupid live-service initiatives nobody wants, ever more subscriptions, and closing of studios that would usually turn out hits as long as you let them work in peace… Thank god for indie studios, retro consoles, PC gaming and a backlog that will last me three lifetimes.
Yeah, as someone who’s mostly been a console peasant my whole life I’ve found myself gravitating heavily towards the Steam Deck, both for native games and emulators. I have a mid-range PC, but I’m much more likely to sit down and play a game on the TV rather than at a desk. The Steam Machine would have been perfect for me, but I know it’s going to cost way more than I’m willing to spend, so I’ll be sticking to my Deck, PS5, and PC for the foreseeable future. It seems unlikely I’ll ever get a new Nintendo or Sony console at this point and any future hardware upgrades will be PC related.
You could just build your own Steam Machine - it’s just a mid-range PC with SteamOS. Stick it all in an ITX or a HTPC case and get a controller.
Or cheaper yet, upgrade your desktop PC, buy a NVIDIA shield and run Moonlight/Sunshine - it’s simple and cheap to play games from the couch these days.
The only actually worthwhile studio they owned…
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
Is it viable for a studio like this to just reform under a new name and continue doing what they love?
It happens all the time, but you need startup capital. And a lot of what they did is remaking games (at high quality) that they don’t own the rights to.
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.
I guess the problem is that it would cost a lot to keep paying everyone for however many years it takes until they have a product.
Man, I really loved the Demon Souls Remaster. It was absolutely gorgeous.
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.
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.