Sony seems to be reversing course laborious on its dwell service ambitions, a minimum of based on a brand new report from Bloomberg. The report says that PlayStation has now canceled two extra live-service titles, one from Bend Studio and the opposite from Bluepoint Video games. Whereas there’s no official phrase on what these video games have been — neither firm had introduced a recreation in growth — Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier claims that one of many titles was set within the God of Conflict universe.
The video games firm introduced shortly after its acquisition of Bungie that it supposed to launch a dozen-or-so live-service titles earlier than the tip of the 2025 fiscal yr. Nonetheless, this has been fraught with difficulties, with turmoil behind the scenes at Bungie itself, and several other main live-service video games both failing to launch or making mediocre showings post-launch. Essentially the most notorious of those is 2024’s Harmony, which launched and subsequently died inside two weeks. Whereas Helldivers 2 has confirmed to be a hit, it has confirmed an anomaly in PlayStation’s ambitions.
Sony acquired Bluepoint in 2021, having beforehand labored with the studio to develop remakes and remasters, together with Demon’s Souls and Shadow of the Colossus. An IGN report from round that point claimed that Bluepoint’s subsequent title could be an unique one. As for Bend, former Days Gone director Jeff Ross (Bend Studio printed Days Gone) alleged that Sony had invested $250 million on its subsequent undertaking.
In line with the report, Sony has not closed both studio and doesn’t plan to put off any workers. A memo to workers says the corporate is “working closely with Bend and Bluepoint to determine what are the next projects and plan to do everything we can to ensure there is minimal business impact.”
