[UPDATE] Staff At Sony Bend & Bluepoint Heard Their Live Service Games Had Been Scrapped At The ‘Same Time As Everyone Else’

UPDATE 20/01/2025: Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, who initially broke the information about Bluepoint and Sony Bend’s stay service video games being cancelled, has refuted Jeff Grubb’s declare that the studios discovered concerning the cancellations together with the remainder of the world.

Posting on BlueSky, above a picture of VGC’s report of Grubb’s claims, Schreier mentioned “I’ve seen this story getting a whole lot of traction on Reddit as we speak however it’s not true. Folks throughout the org had been knowledgeable earlier than my article went out final week.”

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Jeff Grubb has claimed on the most recent Recreation Mess Mornings present that improvement groups at Sony Bend Studio and Bluepoint Video games came upon about their stay service video games being scrapped concurrently stories made their manner on-line final week.

I regarded into this a bit of bit. Yeah, all that is true. The 2 studios came upon concurrently everybody else, so individuals will probably be going into work as we speak questioning ‘hey, okay, what are we doing subsequent?’ And what they’re going to should do subsequent, very seemingly, is pitch one thing to Sony, and the panorama of that has modified fairly drastically.

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A few years in the past you’d carry to PlayStation your pitch, that’s: ‘It’s a stay service recreation, we all know you wish to hear that. And may we use the God of Battle IP? We all know you wish to hear that.’ After which they get the inexperienced mild, and so they get price range, they get funding, they will develop their studio, rent extra individuals, the individuals working there are protected.

And now they’ve to return to the drafting board, and provide you with a pitch that PlayStation desires to listen to, when nobody actually is aware of what they wish to hear, and so it’s a tough state of affairs.

Sony Bend had lengthy been reported to have been engaged on a triple-A stay service title following its work on Days Gone again in 2019, and Bluepoint Recreation was reportedly engaged on a God of Battle stay service title.

[Source – Jeff Grubb via VGC]