Sony seems to be reversing course arduous on its dwell service ambitions, at the least 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 had been — neither firm had introduced a sport in improvement — Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier claims that one of many titles was set within the God of Warfare 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 top of the 2025 fiscal 12 months. 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 successful, 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 authentic 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 accordance with the report, Sony has not closed both studio and doesn’t plan to put off any employees. A memo to employees says the corporate is “working intently with Bend and Bluepoint to find out what are the following initiatives and plan to do all the pieces we will to make sure there’s minimal enterprise influence.”
