Still trying to wrap my head around the Bluepoint news from yesterday. I can't believe Sony is just shutting that studio down. Wanted to create a thread where we gamers could vent and talk about the great work Bluepoint did. I played their Shadow of the Colossus and Demon's Souls remakes, plus the Uncharted collection they worked on.

Anger was the first feeling I had after seeing the news. Sony had this team working on a God of War live service game? Why? Who was asking for that? Sony's pivot to live service this gen really blew up in their face and it's sad. Bluepoint should have been working on remakes for any one of the classic PlayStation IPs fans want to see again. They could have handled the God of War trilogy and maybe then that comes out last year for the 20th anniversary instead of still being in "early development."

The Uncharted Collection is one of my favorite Platinum Trophies I ever earned. Stinks to see Bluepoint go, especially knowing it's primarily the product of mismanagement from Sony.

Yeah I'm struggling to understand it myself. Sony badly needs to clean house. This current management has no idea what it's doing. They're fortunate that the PS5 continues to sell as well as it does because their first-party lineup this generation has been dismal. Not only was Bluepoint working on a live-service game, but Bend apparently was as well. And now Guerrilla's next Horizon game is live-service, too. We just feel so far gone from the unique and creative ideas that used to consistently come from PlayStation. Bums me out.

As far as Bluepoint goes, they were one of the best. Essentially kickstarted the whole remaster trend with the PS3 remasters of God of War 1 and 2. Demon's Souls was also phenomenal. Seems like such an easy route to have them continue making remakes and remasters, but apparently not.

3 hours ago, Logan Moore said:

Yeah I'm struggling to understand it myself. Sony badly needs to clean house. This current management has no idea what it's doing. They're fortunate that the PS5 continues to sell as well as it does because their first-party lineup this generation has been dismal. Not only was Bluepoint working on a live-service game, but Bend apparently was as well. And now Guerrilla's next Horizon game is live-service, too. We just feel so far gone from the unique and creative ideas that used to consistently come from PlayStation. Bums me out.

As far as Bluepoint goes, they were one of the best. Essentially kickstarted the whole remaster trend with the PS3 remasters of God of War 1 and 2. Demon's Souls was also phenomenal. Seems like such an easy route to have them continue making remakes and remasters, but apparently not.

I'm really annoyed Guerrilla's next game is the Horizon live service thing. I just want Horizon 3. I became a PlayStation fan because of all these great single player games.

I wonder if Bend will be the next one to go. I would have preferred they just got a chance to make Days Gone 2. Hope they're able to get something made soon.

Bend definitely feels like it's on the chopping block next. I also continue to wonder about Media Molecule. Dreams was in the works for a LONG time and never panned out like PlayStation wanted (at least commercially). Really feels like any studio other than Naughty Dog, Insomniac, Housemarque, Santa Monica, and Sucker Punch could be closed and it wouldn't be a surprise.