It was just lately reported that dwell service tasks from Sony Interactive Leisure‘s Bend Studio and Bluepoint Video games had been canceled. In a current episode of podcast Recreation Mess Decides, business insider Jeff Grubb claims Harmony is guilty.
Notable gaming insider claims Sony is “reassessing each single undertaking” after Harmony flop
Through the episode, Grubb stories the Bend Studios and Bluepoint Video games dwell service sport cancelations are on account of Harmony’s tumultuous launch by which servers shut down simply two weeks after its launch. He additionally claims Sony is at the moment “reassessing each single undertaking” with its present dwell service slate beneath essentially the most scrutiny.
“This occurred due to Harmony, like this must be clear, that’s what I’ve been informed,” mentioned Grubb.
“Sony is shell-shocked from Harmony, and now they’re going round to each studio and so they’re reassessing each single undertaking, and if it’s a live-service undertaking, it has a whole lot of friction going towards it stopping it from getting an opportunity to really come out.”
“And it’s nearly sure that they received’t have the ability to get a greenlight on a dwell service undertaking, and so they know that,” Grubb continued.
Whereas that is most likely excellent news to a number of the PlayStation gamers on the market, this does pose a little bit of an issue for builders. As Grubb mentions, beneath Sony’s dwell service push, studios had a “pathway” for funding from the corporate. It might be a bit tougher to get funding from Sony for one thing extra conventional.
Earlier than the cancelations, Bluepoint Video games had been engaged on a God of Struggle multiplayer sport. Particulars on Bend Studio’s dwell service undertaking usually are not but public. Sony did affirm that it’s working with each studios to determine its subsequent tasks. Whereas it’s good to see this not leading to one other studio shutting its doorways, it may imply we received’t see something from each of those studios probably till subsequent era.
(Supply: Jeff Grubb’s Recreation Mess)
