Comment on Sony Pulls Back From PlayStation Games on PC

brillotti@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Which they can’t do without pissing off FromSoft, and they don’t want to upset FromSoft any more than they already have.

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  • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I thought it was Sony that was the issue behind the PC release? All the other fromsoftware games are on pc

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    • villainy@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Most recent word was Miyazaki is interested in a remake but wants From to do it themselves. From is always busy enough with new stuff that they don’t have the bandwidth to take it. Sony respects this and so it sits.

      Bluepoint pitched a Bloodborne remake, but FromSoftware turned it down, not Sony

      Now, a new report by Bloomberg claims that Bluepoint did, in fact, approach FromSoft in early 2025, pitching a remake of the 2015 game. It’s said that “the studio was told that the numbers made sense, but FromSoftware didn’t want it to happen”.

      Interestingly, former president of Sony Interactive Entertainment Shuhei Yoshida posited the same this time last year, saying: "Bloodborne is one of the most popular asks on my Twitter/X. And the people wonder why we haven’t really done anything… it should be easy, right?

      “Miyazaki-san really, really loved Bloodborne, what he created. So I think he is interested but he’s so successful and he’s so busy, so he cannot do it himself, and he doesn’t want anyone else to touch it.”

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t know the exact contract between these two companies, but often times a publisher like Sony will own the title/world/story and the developer will own the code. Sony is within their legal rights to make a remake of Demon’s Souls (also a Sony exclusive from back in the day), but it seems to have upset FromSoft, and when FromSoft is putting out bangers like Elden Ring, you don’t want them to find a reason to not put their games on your console. Other than Demon’s Souls and Bloodborne, every other modern FromSoft game has a different publisher, whether it’s Bandai-Namco or Activision.

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