I was starting to lose the feel for gaming the past 5 years but this just made it worse.

Everything about their closure is so BS.

Bought them out after a successful string of high quality remakes/remasters.

Forced them to make a GaaS for 4ish years only to cancel it.

Wasted another full year of their lives dangling a green light just beyond their reach.

What the hell can these developers show now? Half a decade of their careers - down the drain

oh shit, ive always liked the studio. such a big shame. sucks

they made some of my fav games. well, i mean all of their games were really good actually.

its so weird. like ever since covid, gaming in general felt more like a PR movement than anything else.

loads of games that came on the market broken, all this weird bickering of devs, the empty promises, the micro transaction bs.

madness.

Are you serious!? WTF!? this is so messed up, literally everything they did was a success so why? Ugh this just hit me hard man 😞

Buy studio best in their field

Stick them on god of war live service for 5 years

Cancel it

Close studio

Thanks sony

what the fuck? makes no sense!!

Sony still on a roll I see….

Surely at some point the blatency of how poorly it’s been managed since the change in personnel at the top can no longer be ignored and accepted.

At this point it’s pretty clear that everybody needs to go. They all need replacing. Including the financial team paying them all their massive bonuses while they destroy the company.

Ok, this is it. I'm f***ing done with Sony. They literally didn't make a good choice in 5 years.

What studio are they closing next? Naughty Dog? I wouldn't be surprised.

And yet Naughty dogs is still open.
Lol

So the studio behind some of the best remakes and remasters shut down
But we're getting a horizon multiplayer garbage

Sony is getting harder and harder to tolerate, and 99% of my gaming has been on ps consoles since I got my ps3 in 2010

Wtf?
This is a terrible decision.
Very disappointing.

That fucking sucks. Sony is remaking the old GOW games, why not give it to them? Santa Monica can worl on the main line game

Fuck you Sony seriously bluepoint was incredible

Dear lord, wtf is sony doing? SOTC and Demons souls remakes were amazing. I'd guess key devs left leaving a skeleton left...

This is a shocking disgrace, the Ryan and Hulst era won't be remembered fondly with their crappy live service push. They gave use the excellent SOTC and Demons Souls remake, surely they could have at least been put on a Bloodborne remake or remaster? But they get put on GOW live service slop?

Absolutely dreadful.

Are you f****** kidding me!
Demon’s Souls remake is still 1 of the best playing & looking games this gen!
Business review my ass, you’re blowing it.

While Bluepoint should never have been made to make a live service anything, as they were best in class at what they did, Sony seem to be incapable of realising they've got IPs better suited to a live service game. Killzone as a PvP centric game. Resistance as a PvPvE game, with inspiration from Resistance 2's co-op. Warhawk. As examples.

Why God of War, and now Horizon? Neither seem suited to a multiplayer game to me, and I can only imagine them being very complicated to make. In fact it shows with that Horizon Hunters Gathering showcase, as they needed to change the style of combat quite heavily from the main games.

Praying for Media Molecule's sake now. Dreams was a failure, and their last successful games were as far back as Tearaway and Littlebigplanet 2. Ironically enough, a Littlebigplanet live service game seems like a great idea. But right now I'm not sure Sony are bright enough to put any of their teams on the right games.

Another live service game takes the team with it. Too bad. Their remakes were awesome.

I wanted demons souls to come to PC. Sony could have done more with Blue point but they decided to go the tw@t route. Small talented team from what I've seen, very sad.

Hope they all land somewhere else. Never understood the dumb move to put them on a live service god of war game. Should have immediately put them onto a Demons souls dlc where the 5th arch stone is repaired and the world explored, even could have involved some art designers with From. That would have been fire.

Gutted about this news, tbh.

Just the worst era man, i’ve been saying it for the past 6 years. What’s next Sony? You gonna close Team Asobi? Or make them work on a live service game and then close them?

But you know, as long as Naughty Dog who hasn’t made a game in 6 years is alright and safe that’s all that matters right Sony? Oh and Guerrilla Games ofc.. let’s not forget those jokers. F#%k off.

Well, that's the end of my hopes of seeing a Bloodborne remake. Sony and their stupid push for live service games is causing them to lose studios.

I hope they provide the staff at Bluepoint with opportunities within their other studios.

Casual reminder that to the end user, all of these giant corporations are the enemy. Why im always shocked to see fanboys go to war to defend their "company of choice"

WTF 😬

I just don't get this one. You need more dev's not less for the current situation.

What?! They could had make demons souls 2!

Wow Sony actually got n4g to all agree that this fucking sucks.
Because it does

Dumb
I can't imagine this was Bluepoints fault
Based on word of their God of War LIVE SERVICE game getting canned I would bet highly that it was Playstations dumb choices to make their prestige single player studio to make another Service game is only the fault of the company and it's the talented people who face the consequences.

UGH it's so fucking stupid.
It's like how Microsoft shut down Tengo Gameworks after releasing the very good Hi-fi Rush.
They (Re)make their premier Demon's Souls game for PS5 when there's so few real first party Sony games coming out and they can the studio like this. PS is falling OFF as a long time Sony-Pony

Does this mean no Bloodborne remake/remaster was ever in the works by them I guess.

Sony is full of gaas this generation.

Thanks Bluepoint, you remade best games I've ever played.
Sony garbage pushing Horizon trash and live service instead of peak gaming talent.

Unbelievable!

What a stupid decision from Sony wow. Bluepoint is an incredibly talented studio! We could have had a remake of Legend of Dragoon, or something else but noooo Sony wanted live service God of War? What the hell

Looks like people are finally seeing that Sony is no different than MS..

Not surprising. Its all part of the plan

The only reason I bought PS5 during launch is because of their game. For me until this day, Demon's Souls is one of the best looking PS5 exclusive. This is really a very sad news.

This is really terrible news. Arguably, Demon's Souls remake is still one of, if not the best looking games on PS5. I know everyone is talking about the GOW GaaS that was cancelled but they have been a absolute powerhouse since they were acquired in 2021. Just look at all the ports and support they've completed since. I'm hopeful they moved a good portion of these folks into a internal port team but still, 70 talented people getting canned sucks. Such fondness for either remakes/remasters...

This Generation of consoles has been nothing but folly after folly.

Why shut Bluepoint down? Why not try auctioning the company off to potential buyers first? A company of Bluepoint's expertise still has much to offer in the gaming industry (especially when we're talking remake/remasters).

This is why Nintendo deserves credit. Out of the big three (themselves, along with Sony and MS) they very seldomly close studios. Especially those of the talents of a Bluepoint Games.

Mismanagement at its peak. Good job, Sony!

Sony, Microsoft, and EA - what is the difference anymore?

Sony is just another soulless corporation chasing money. Record setting profits this generation yet Sony must keep closing good studios.

They just acquired it in 2021, it's only been five years, why do they need to close it? Bluepoint was doing fine as an independent, why did Sony buy it?

Sony essentially acquired an entire studio specializing in remasters, only to shut it down without a single game to show for it, as they redirected the team to work on a live service project.
Again, since the acquisition, not one game has been released.

Ok this is bad, HOWEVER, we gotta realize that these teams have to make good, well received games. When a team has built up several wins, which equals income, then they build up a barrier. You can afford a miss or two depending on the size of the game and money invested. Bluepoint has been nothing but remakes and that’s fine, but when you spend years making a NEW title and it is off base to the point of unsalvagable… that money more has no way of being recouped.
This isn’t the golden age of gaming with companies popping up everywhere and games galore. Games cost a LOT now. It’s riskier than ever to pour resources into a dud. I think the only way to get us back to as close to the golden age where companies could afford to take more risk, is by spending more money. Buying more games. Stop crapping on everything and being open minded to more like people were back in the day. Not to age myself, but if I people were selective back then like they are now, gaming wouldn’t be nearly where it is today. I’d have missed out on bangers I’d have NEVER tried. Like Skate or die, Road Rash, or Zany Golf for example. It was also different because hell, you could trade games.
Anyway, obviously things exist that are counter intuitive to that, but yeah. Sony probably would have took the chance on whatever their game WAS because it looked like a Low B, High C game if they thought we would take the risk and try it, let alone love it. Instead, anything under an A can get you canned.
Anyway, sorry for the wall of text and BUY MORE GAMES!

as a PS gamer since the jump.... Fuuuuu you PS and a double guns blazing F you to management!! This the type of studio you take advantage of, not shut down. What kind of inept bs is this.

Gutted. Such a great studio undeserving of this. And ironically, this occurs at the heel of Sony annoucing a strategy of increasing software to offset the price increases cause by the ram shortage.

Too bad the studio was made to work on a fruitless live service project to years. A Blue Point remaster of Bloodborne would have printed money.

Like I said before,people keep thinking console sales are the cure for everything. This is mismanagement. No different than the other companies that do it. This is turning out to be Sony's worst generation. Lots of humble pie being eaten right now.

Sony is truly pathetic

Was it worth it Sony? Man, I’m so glad Jim Ryan left, but I hate the fallout from his sh*t run with this Gen.

guys wtf we need to boycott this shit cmon no bloodborn remake

Jim Ryan and Hermen Hulst truly are the Don Mattrick and Phil Spencer of Playstation.

This is idiotic of Sony to do. All they had to do was have them do another remake/remaster instead of shoving another GaaS game onto them. This will be a tremendous loss for them as they never put out a bad game.

When a publisher flat-out refuses to see the forest for the trees. Easy fix from my perspective - Vote with your wallets, people. Drop your PSN subscriptions and boycott any spending that benefits Sony's bottom line.

Sony clearly doesn't give a s*** what its fans want. They have completely ignored years of consistent calls for a Bloodborne remake while sidelining Bend Studio and a Days Gone sequel, all the while producing very few brand-new and noteworthy first-party titles throughout the PS5 generation. This is a fact.

There goes the Bloodborne remake.

your beloved company is just as shit as the others in the industry. Maybe the rose tinted glasses are coming off now and the ponies can finally see what's been in front of them all this time

That's a damn shame! Hopefully they survive this & go back to remastering great games from the past for other companies or making new games, whatever their heart desires.

PlayStation are now run by idiots that only cared only numbers and graphs on the screen while agenda pushing studios and execs gets to keep their jobs.
You fools sacked the wrong studio.

Sony taking a page out of Microsoft's book: follow a good showing with devastating news.

I wasn't planning to buy PS6, and now I'm sure I'm not buying PS6.

I cannot stand a corporation screwing the people because execs lead them off a cliff chasing bullshit trends.

PlayStation deserves all the smoke for this spectacular f***-up. Bluepoint was a great studio.

That’s an incredibly bad decision from Sony. Bluepoint have never missed the mark! Unbelievable.

That is fucking wild. Demon's Souls was an absolutely incredible remake, what a safe pair of hands for any future remakes they could have released and they shutter the studio?! I hope all the staff are being absorbed into another studio because there is literally no justification to lose so much obvious talent.

Banging out old and new games then charging up to £70 and in some cases, over £70, it's no wonder game sales are at their lowest ever level and studios are closed down. Five minutes after the PS5 launched, the PS5 Pro was released, then there's talk about the PS6. Gaming is in one big mess and there's going to be a crash, the last one being in 1983, until Nintendo popped out the NES.

they made the BEST remakes on Playstation... this baffles me...

This is all Jim Ryan's fault.

Sony closing every good studio like always. Instead we receive Tsushima legends/Horizon online and Marathon the game with Returnal 2 dlc - Saros for 80€

The business is the business. It's not a one company thing. Unfortunately for board level members - they do not care about gamers they care about revenue and taking the steps to stay on top.

Sony wants to fail and I say let them since there's no real reason to buy a.PlayStation going forward in this sewer market of content

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau