[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 reside service video games being cancelled, has refuted Jeff Grubb’s declare that the studios realized 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 stated “I’ve seen this story getting a number of traction on Reddit at this time nevertheless it’s not true. Folks throughout the org had been knowledgeable earlier than my article went out final week.”

Authentic Story:

Jeff Grubb has claimed on the most recent Sport Mess Mornings present that improvement groups at Sony Bend Studio and Bluepoint Video games discovered about their reside service video games being scrapped similtaneously studies made their method on-line final week.

I seemed into this slightly bit. Yeah, all that is true. The 2 studios discovered similtaneously everybody else, so folks will probably be going into work at this time questioning ‘hey, okay, what are we doing subsequent?’ And what they’re going to need to do subsequent, very probably, 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 deliver to PlayStation your pitch, that’s: ‘It’s a reside service recreation, we all know you wish to hear that. And might we use the God of Warfare IP? We all know you wish to hear that.’ After which they get the inexperienced gentle, they usually get price range, they get funding, they’ll develop their studio, rent extra folks, the folks working there are secure.

And now they’ve to return to the drafting board, and provide you with a pitch that PlayStation needs 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 reside service title following its work on Days Gone again in 2019, and Bluepoint Sport was reportedly engaged on a God of Warfare reside service title.

[Source – Jeff Grubb via VGC]