BREAKING: PlayStation has canceled two more live-service games, from subsidiaries Bend and Bluepoint, Bloomberg has learned.
Fans have long wondered what Bluepoint has been working on for the last couple of years. I can report it was a live-service God of War game. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-16/sony-cancels-two-more-playstation-projects?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTczNzA2ODk1MywiZXhwIjoxNzM3NjczNzUzLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTUTdFWjJUMEcxS1cwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJCMUVBQkI5NjQ2QUM0REZFQTJBRkI4MjI1MzgyQTJFQSJ9.OtpjLAX_fLRPjeIhmdZSXLhsiFNDef1RlL6IxoCIQes
Fans have long wondered what Bluepoint has been working on for the last couple of years. I can report it was a live-service God of War game. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-16/sony-cancels-two-more-playstation-projects?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTczNzA2ODk1MywiZXhwIjoxNzM3NjczNzUzLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTUTdFWjJUMEcxS1cwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJCMUVBQkI5NjQ2QUM0REZFQTJBRkI4MjI1MzgyQTJFQSJ9.OtpjLAX_fLRPjeIhmdZSXLhsiFNDef1RlL6IxoCIQes
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Article seems to have a discrepancy with your message here about closures.
Tried clearing my cache and using a different browser to be sure it wasn't updated.
10/12 Bluepoints projects happened under Sony regardless. Many studios that start as port/remaster studios grow and want to tackle an original game.
Nixxes is going the exact thing they've always been doing.
I'd rather them working on porting exclusive PS games to PC over yet version #567 of Tomb Raider.
Nixxes under Sony is a W.
The biggest crime in gaming is that Sony didn't throw every cent at Bluepoint to make a Bloodborne remaster/PC port.
It would sell bucketloads on PC alone.
Sony "looked" at the Data decided to build a bunch of GAAS games. One had one the most disastrous launches ever and now they've cancelled two others.
So much for "looking at data"
Buying up Bluepoint....
To have them do this shit.
Fucking slop that wouldn't even work business/numbers-wise.
And as you've said Nixxes is a loss to the wider industry.
All of that to.... continually do remakes and remasters of the same 3-4 IPs ????
This Sony is not even worth its name.
Bend may be screwed. Maybe worse than Bluepoint considering the projects thrown before this latest one. Hopefully this one lands.
You want cross platform multiplayer you're talking a massive investment of time and money no matter what.
Staying here is a waste of your talent and visibility imo.
amazing
Because Jason is not posting there anymore so I come here once a week.
Sorry for hurting your feelings.
I understand they also asked Naughty Dogs to work on a service-live game, that why except re-releases of TLOU we didn't hear about them until Intergalactic.
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Why did guy walk away like he did nothing wrong.
What the hell is wrong with Sony?
I am not upset that they cancelled a live-service game but Sony forced them to waste 4 years of time on this garbage. You freaking morons.
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Years, talent, money was wasted for that..
GDI Sony...you had one job...
Context: https://wccftech.com/possible-new-bend-studio-ip-in-development-after-screenshots-surface/
You get shit products and no one willing to take risks.
Love service was the big thing 4-5 years ago. Now it’s on the downtrend and these idiots a finally figuring that out.
You’d still need QA to double check the work. But generation is not a major problem.
Remember at the beginning of 2000's they behaved like shit too. #SWG
We truly live in the Stupid Timeline™.
Can't believe I am about to say this but Concord launching the way-
But I guess Fortnite exists, so to hell with anything else?
Ghost of Yotei
Intergalactic
Marathon (multiplat, inc Xbox)
Fairgames (for sure getting cancelled too).
Wolverine.
PS5 will end up with less exclusive games than even the Virtual Boy which is just yikes.
Boys!
Oh how I do miss Drakan Order of the Flame multiplayer. Was quite good in that circle long ago.
*London Studios game
*PixelOpus game
*Firesprite Twisted Metal
*Bend Studios game
*Last of Us Online
*Bluepoint God of War game
*Neon Koi game
*Destiny spinoff Payback
Jason, please tell me that this is the subject of your next book! We need to know what is going on over there
yknow what we should make?
GOD OF WAR GENSHIN IMPACT!!!!"
whats hard about this
Do you know if Bend's was based on 'Syphon Filter'?
https://www.psu.com/news/bluepoint-games-working-on-original-content-but-that-doesnt-necessarily-mean-a-new-ip/
reads like an actual parody/skit/joke.
I can totally get having ideas done in pre-pro & sketches, but flat out spending time on that idea just using Bluepoint as a tool after their resume is sad corporate behavior.
Baffling.
Fire whatever executive thought that shit sounded good.
Absolutely baffling.
A live service God of War game sounds, on paper, like an atrocious idea.
... I'd probably pay for monthly fresh bosses, weapons, and gimmicky-outfits in Bayonetta 2.
God of War recently had a roguelite add-on that, with careful execution, could have a longer tail with added biomes and character types. However I do not believe it would generate the revenue that Sony would need to consider it a success by any means.
Sony are fearful of missing an opportunity to have their own Fortnite, to the point of putting 12 studios to work on it. 12 lottery tickets.
Could a good game happen? Sure. Helldivers 2 is excellent.
But the cost to people's careers is seismic.
But the eternal optimist in me can't help but see the potential for service games as a way to create a stable work place. The unlikely dream of a studio without four-five year make-or-break cycles...
Then again we saw what happened with Redfall in similar circumstances, though I did enjoy the art in that game.
Sony truly is absolutely idiotic when it comes to their decision making CEO's and other higher ups, anyone who was involved in this insane live-service game push!
lol, lmao
(I need Bluepoint to remake Ico)
What a waste of time, resources and talent🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
That live-service push was just 🤦🏻♂️
I remember they promised 12 live service games were coming. I can think of at least three that are dead or weren't published.
It's that it wasn't something any creative mind working there wanted. The only people this served was a feeling of safety for shareholders. Hurt the industry.