to be fair Bluepoint also received a ton of support from Sony in their live service efforts with their God of War game. It took Concord failing for them to be like okay okay maybe this shit isn't going to work out and they pulled the plug on a few other live service games.
I don't really see politics factoring into these decisions. Bluepoint is as American as it gets are far as dev teams go under Sony. They are centered right in Texas.
My biggest confusion is Sony and Bluepoint not being able to find a new project together. Maybe there's some truth to Bluepoint not wanting to do remasters and remakes anymore. It all is a bit confusing. I hope more details come out eventually.
I reply here because other thread died
I was thinkng more about killing Japan Studio
You can argue JS had terrible score at being reliable and not huge sales, but were also most talented devs they had and the last pieces of japanese expertise in the company
Not surprised remnants of JS as ASOBI delivered GotY Astro Bot with small team, while some spent much more for mediocre stuff or bombs
from what i understand Hulst vision was behind that kill just like he's behind this
I was'nt greatest fan of Bluepoint, and probably in the minority that did'nt wanted them to remake BloodBorne... as indeed while technically great they're very western and either fail to grasp some aspects of original japanese games they touched or they deliberately chosen to change flavor, and i don't welcome it
But BluePoint was surely made of people of talent and loved by fans, just like JS they should have been preserved and helped to deliver better commercial success, instead we get corporate Sony bs over and over
if you have quality don't throw it away because does'nt sell, try figure out how make it sell
I will ever be Playstation guy as is the console that grants get most of third party japanese games
On Switch i would have got to wait 2 yeears to play my current fav game SF6, and SF5 was PS exclusive just to name one series
But still hate what they became, never expect anything good from them (beside ASOBI) beyond be the platform for stuff i like made by somebody else
The Sony of the past gave me Bloodborne(collab), Ico, SotC, Dark Cloud, Puppeteer, TLG, Rogue Galaxy, Patapon, Gravity Rush, Folklore and more i'm probably forgetting to mention
Is big part of the VG stuff i loved in the past, but today i expect nothing from them
Beyond corporate bs i believe there's still audience for that kind of stuff, there could be lot to be done delivering great AA japanese games that without giant budget get people's approval due straight quality
Of course will not be main income and sell millions to the masses like western cinematic AAA bs but will neither cost (risk) as much
There's simply no will, meanwhile white collar genius were calling this money black hole
the "next Star Wars"
Also i don't believe last years PS is free from american politics bs, but that's another debate that bring us elsewhere
