PlayStation shut down Bluepoint Video games, the developer behind the Demon’s Souls and Shadow of the Colossus remakes, earlier this month. Amongst common disappointment on the information amongst gamers, there was additionally a sense that the studio would have been the one to (lastly) do one thing with Bloodborne, ideally a remake, contemplating Bluepoint’s pedigree.
Now, in accordance with a brand new Bloomberg report, it seems Bluepoint did pitch a Bloodborne remake in early 2025, but it surely was rejected by PlayStation on account of FromSoftware’s needs.
Bloomberg says its sources instructed it that Bluepoint “was instructed that the numbers made sense [to remake Bloodborne] however FromSoftware did not need it to occur.” Because the report notes, former PlayStation government Shuhei Yoshida theorized throughout a Kinda Humorous interview final yr that FromSoftware president Hidetaka Miyazaki, who directed Bloodborne, was all in favour of remaking the 2015 motion recreation himself however was too busy to take action; Yoshida mentioned he “does not need anybody else to the touch it” and that if that is true, he believes PlayStation would respect Miyazaki’s needs, regardless that PlayStation owns the Bloodborne IP.
As beforehand reported, Bluepoint was engaged on a live-service spinoff of Santa Monica Studios’ God of Conflict sequence (which lately received the side-scroller remedy in God of Conflict Sons of Sparta). Bloomberg stories that Bluepoint’s spinoff was a recreation by which Kratos’ son, Atreus, one of many principal protagonists of God of Conflict Ragnarök, fell into Hades (hell). “A free concept was for gamers to manage totally different variations or features of Atreus as they battled by Greek hell, and to have some type of cooperative gameplay and ongoing assist,” the report reads. Nevertheless, PlayStation canceled this venture in January of 2025. Tasked with determining its subsequent venture, one thing PlayStation helped with, Bluepoint ultimately pitched the aforementioned (rejected) Bloodborne remake.
After that rejection, Bluepoint reportedly pitched an up to date model of Shadow of the Colossus, which the studio already remade for PlayStation 4 in 2018, and it was additionally turned down. Different pitched tasks embody a Ghost of Tsushima spinoff, amongst different video games set inside pre-existing PlayStation franchises, in accordance with Bloomberg, which additionally stories that workers on the studio started to worry for the corporate’s existence when the God of Conflict trilogy remake was introduced earlier this month, on February 12, with out their involvement.
Per week later, on February 19, PlayStation shut down Bluepoint, simply 5 years after it acquired the beloved studio in 2021.
[Source: Bloomberg]
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