BREAKING: PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games (Demon's Souls/Shadow of the Colossus remakes)

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• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What a needlessly stupid thing it was to put them on a live service project, and what a waste to close it down.

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  • Goodeye8@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Word is this live service push was Jim Ryan’s initiative, and he left the company right before it all fell apart.

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    • voytrekk@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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    • slimerancher@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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?

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• The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • popcar2@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah. I wouldn’t mind a Jak and Daxter trilogy remake either.

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    • drcobaltjedi@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Add in daxter and X and I’ll throw them my wallet.

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    • flameguy21@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      At least we have fan made PC ports

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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

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    • The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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    • rafoix@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Why make tens of millions when you can lose hundreds of millions?

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  • cuzit@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I want a modern Tenchu game too, but I don’t think it’s going to happen.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ll take Sekiro 2

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  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, I’ve been waiting for a remaster of The Adventures of Cookie & Cream this whole time…

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I actually had that game, but I don’t remember anything about it.

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    • TheOgreChef@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Insanely underrated game and one of the best co-op titles of the PS2 generation

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  • olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I would buy a shadow of the colossus remaster and pay for a DLC for more bosses.

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A re-release of the Otogi games would be great!

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• popcar2@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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?

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  • oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sony was thinking “money me, money now, money money money, big money, money now”

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    • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They’re too busy making more money-sink Spider-man movies without Spider-man.

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    • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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    • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Which apparently backfired spectacularly.

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    • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Charlie was quite the writer

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  • leavemealone@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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  • Ashtear@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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• hypnicjerk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  this is so insane on its face that the first place my mind goes is, were they about to unionize?

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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?

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• the_korben@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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 console at this point and any future hardware upgrades will be PC related.

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• iamthetot@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Man, I really loved the Demon Souls Remaster. It was absolutely gorgeous.

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  • nfreak@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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• Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is it viable for a studio like this to just reform under a new name and continue doing what they love?

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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  • Screen_Shatter@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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  • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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  • olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, but the landscape is pretty harsh for AA games right now. They could easily milk the IP they already have.

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• arcine@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The only actually worthwhile studio they owned…

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• commander@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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

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• heiligerbimbam@lemmy.wtf ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ha… I bought a PS5 just to finally play the Deamons Souls remake.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That and Bloodborne for me. But Returnal had just come out at the time, and that is also good (tho no longer exclusive).

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    • octobob@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It took me a couple years to install GoW Ragnarok. 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. I only got like halfway through it

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    • neuroneiro@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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    • heiligerbimbam@lemmy.wtf ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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. 🤓

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  • schema@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well, this seems to be the first console generation that is going up in price over time…

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  • Hazmatastic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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  • rafoix@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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• RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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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  • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Exactly. It’s the gamers who are wrong.

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• spongebue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  BREAKING

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    WIND

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• thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is even more stupid than Microsoft shutting down studios. It makes literally no sense.

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• me_myself_and_I@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hey there I heard you definitely want live service games right? Oh sorry you said remakes? No you must mean live service! /s

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• BurgerBaron@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No Games Station becomes more and more true over time.

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• torubrx@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That makes no sense

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• BootyEnthusiast@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why is there a picture of some bald ugly dude instead of something like a bluepoint logo or a Sony one?

  Ridiculous

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  • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    it’s a bluesky tweet

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• altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For AI use ofcourse.

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I step out of the executive office

  Business people are like, super smart, ok guys, so don’t try to tell THEM how to make Video Games and not fail catastrophically OK?

  Also go back to work! You are artists, your time is worth NOTHING!!! Do you want to get fired like those Playstation employees?

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• Mwa@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Idk if related but why is Sony is not very confident they are gonna make stuff.
  And also I hope they make it a independent company or Smth ig.

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• selokichtli@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Meanwhile, Naughty Dog keeps milking the last great game they produced in 2013.

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