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[KanKamAndNob]

People happily bought PS3/PS4/PS5 to play CoD and Madden and Fifa. The exclusives were a nice bonus to keep them from buying an Xbox instead. Now nobody's gonna do that anyway.


I'm still down bad for the catgirl thing from concord

Shit like this is why I hate how retarded fucking normies have infested this industry. Chugging down whatever diarrhea is placed in front of them so long as they have their idiotic trash like sportsball and their shitty COD that hasn't been good for over a decade.

 

[Donkaapo]

 

[Touch fuzZy. get BizZay]

At least there will be no incentive for me to buy a PS6 at launch.

Im in the same place. PS5pro gonna have a long, infrequently played life

 

[Lukin1978]

What is going on at Sony right now it seems like they just don't give a shit anymore.
Fuck you give me money

 

[Fahdis]

Fuck Sony Studios need to stay independent. Thank you. The time for exclusives are over.

 

[Topher]

Sony tweeted this after the Bluepoint closure news....

 

[digoutyoursoul]

What a waste of a clearly talented studio. We need an executive reset in this industry .

 

[Sinozen]

I'm not a Playstation guy, but if there's anything that made me want a Playstation 4 or 5 it was Blupoints remakes. The reception to this news is pretty strong.

Sony really fucked up with this. They should reverse this decision. They could have iced that mediocre Horizon Hunters game to continue to fund Blupoint. All they had to do was give them another game to remaster of which there are MANY Sony has neglected. It was like free money for these idiots.

This is objectively bad management and its even got me pissed off lol. Sony investors should raise hell.

 

[LordCBH]

Sony tweeted this after the Bluepoint closure news....

I mean, are they supposed to just cancel their scheduled marketing tweets for the day?

 

[Shadowstar39]

Let me guess this him/her person is still there?

Would explain a lot!

 

[Sticks]

Us gamers,

Im a Dutch gamer

 

[Sinozen]

Yo, wtf

Maybe they are just taking all the talent and moving them into another place?

I looked it up, no. They're laying off 70 people and keeping 10 to close things up. For such a small studio theyre pinching pennies. Why tf did they do this?

 

[phant0m]

Sony tweeted this after the Bluepoint closure news....

I'm not buying anymore PlayStation Studios games.

Which really fuckin sucks because I was really hyped for Saros, and was probably going to try Marathon after all.

Fuck yourself with a rake, Hulst.

 

[Cancer]

Wait. This is new for me.
They put a troon as HEAD of third party content?

Someone who has proven himself mentally ill promoted in a leadership position?

How...suicidal. Why?

 

[bender]

Im in the same place. PS5pro gonna have a long, infrequently played life

I play my PS5 (base) almost daily, but very few of the games I've played have required a PS5. The Pro was an easy skip and I'm sure most titles on PS6 will be cross generation. So, to my dear friend PS5...

 

[yogaflame]

While the trash and ugly horizon gathering and fairgames continues. I hate ryan and hermen to the bone. At least ryan is retired. Hermen has to go. He is a bad manager and dumb planner. Sony's gaas obsession and porting exclusives killed the signature greatness of Sony game development. This is as sad as shutting down Japan studio. I hope Sony head in Japan will fire Hermen.

 

[Ramiro_Rodriguez]

I thought the Demons souls remake did really well for them!?

And that was five years ago.
I've heard that Bluepoint worked on their first original game instead of a port, remaster or remake and it could be that it didn't work out.
Even when the studio is small, with only 70 employees, is it possible that Sony invested in those 5 years 50 millions or much more.

The Demon's Souls Remake was good, but Bluepoint Games isn't Naughty Dog and not even Zipper Interactive.

 

[Lord Panda]

Sony tweeted this after the Bluepoint closure news....

To be fair, the community manager or whatever probably wasn't aware that one of their own best studios was getting the chop when that was posted.

Fucking hell, Sony are peak retards.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Can't wait for it to all come crashing down.

Only after Marathon flops, the new Horizon slop craters, Interstellar underperforms they may get it into their thick skull. Only then it may be too late and irreversible damage will have been dealt to the brand.

Hermen is the personfiied Peter principle, he may have been an ok fit to run a mid dutch studio but is totally over his head with managing a global portfolio of studios.

Thats the key thing people bring up. Will any media companies smarten up next projects.

When all this GAAS or wokey stuff got greenlit way back when GAAS was hot and DEI was the rage, these gaming projects are coming out in 2024 and beyond. And that's when it's all turned around. So the fad is long over.

But, everything is already in motion so it's too late to turn back. So you cancel it or just launch it anyway and hope for the best. That's up to every company.

But for any games (or TV/movies) that started writing and prep work to get greenlit past year or two, you'd think they'd clean it all up so when it launches in 2029 it's not stupid, cookie cutter or wokeish.... learn from your mistakes.

We'll all have to wait and see if the slop keeps coming out, or if it does change after the shit already in the colon is flushed out.

 

[reezoo]

Sony's logic
- oh you are expert in single player games
- let's make a GAAS
- you f**kers, you are good for nothing
- all of you are fired!

 

[FoxMcChief]

Yup.

That's why Gaf is upset. They did great work.

 

[FalconPunch]

Sony fans remain loyal regardless of what Sony does... price increases, games full of woke crap, horrible GaaS, mass layoffs, studio closures, PC ports that devalue the platform, etc.

They deserve it.

Wtf are you even talking about? Lots of well known sony fans are shitting on them and deservedly so.

It's frustrating when Sony and PS5 are the most successfull and profitable generation of playstation to date. Brag about profits and sales, the layoff people. It's pretty class behaviour these days. Even more so when you see how they are spending their money on failing Gaas games.

Worse generation by far and the lesson Sony has learned is they don't need that many first party games to rake in the cash. When is enough in terms of making billions for these big companies. Banks are the worst.

Maybe this is how they will cover the RAM costs.

What people and Sony doesn't understand is that they're still mostly coasting off the foundations laid during the ps3 and ps4 cycle. The biggest Playstation IPs today either established their roots in the ps3 or ps4 cycle.

That good will led to the success they're now enjoying with the ps5. However, during this generation, they've done very little to nurture those IPs. To make matters worse, the try anything spirit that led to a huge variety in games is nowhere to be found.

Come PS6, they're going to find out hard. They already had trouble getting people to upgrade from PS4 to PS5. Thankfully, XBOX shit the bed so they could absorb some of their audience and some new entrants as well. I don't see where the tail wind for the ps6 is going to come from.

As a playstation fan, I can confidently say that this is the worst Playstation generation in history.

 

[Kerotan]

These retards in studios like Bluepoint need to see themselves for what they are. You're a remake studio, remake actual masterpieces with modern graphics. That's it. Stop getting these ideas that you can do something knew. They should have asked Sony for the next remake and left it at that. Don't waste resources on some big new project.

 

[deeptech]

Weren't there rumors about Sony acquiring FROM? That would've been a nightmare, hopefully it never ever happens. Playstation is a shadow of its former self, only uninteresting trash is left and old school classics and IPs are buried or "modernized" for the "new audiences". And they complain about more expensive game development, meaning its games are gonna be even shittier.

 

[Pharaoh 117]

And nothing will happen to Hermen, The Retard. At most he will lose a few million in bonuses. Fucker.

 

[Danjin44]

I'm not buying anymore PlayStation Studios games.

For me Sony is making it easy for me not buy their games because they havent released a game I liked other than Astro Bot.

 

[kungfuian]

A huge shout out to the AMAZING DEVS A BLUEPOINT! If you read these boards know that we love your games and you will be sadly missed!

For Sony, the math is pretty simple as a customer. If you continue to force GAAS bullshit, shut down kick ass single player devs, and reduce your output of single player games, then you will get less of my money. Simple as that! Your fixation on short term profits will come at the expense of your platform in the long run. It's short sighted bullshit from accountant jackasses who haven't got a clue, and will come to bite you in the ass. How hard is it to figure out. We want amazing single player games. Not GAAS! and if you must do GAAS, it CAN NOT come at the expense of the games that made you what you are.

Terrible news!

 

[bender]

Thats the key thing people bring up. Will any media companies smarten up next projects.

When all this GAAS or wokey stuff got greenlit way back when GAAS was hot and DEI was the rage, these gaming projects are coming out in 2024 and beyond. And that's when it's all turned around. So the fad is long over.

But, everything is already in motion so it's too late to turn back. So you cancel it or just launch it anyway and hope for the best. That's up to every company.

But for any games (or TV/movies) that started writing and prep work to get greenlit past year or two, you'd think they'd clean it all up so when it launches in 2029 it's not stupid, cookie cutter or wokeish.... learn from your mistakes.

We'll all have to wait and see if the slop keeps coming out, or it does change after the shit already in the colon is flushed out.

It's just funny that everyone chasing the Fortnite dream didn't bother to study how lucky Epic got with it. Save the World wasn't exactly lighting the world on fire and Battle Royale was added on a whim and then blew up. It's going to be almost impossible to replicate that type of success in the first place, doubly so if you consider how fortunate Epic got with dropping that mode into their game (props to them for being agile), and triply so when you see how fast games like Concord and Highguard are getting shut down after initial disappointing results. The top end of this industry needs to crash and burn and a lot of them are seemingly well on their way.

 

[Deft Beck]

What a complete and utter waste of Bluepoint's time, talent, and resources. I hope the former devs can find a much better home.

 

[Light_Crusader25]

Such a horrible, horrible decision. And this is with the Playstation division making them loads of money! But it's never enough for the bloodsucking shareholders...
Hermen should be sacked, but I am afraid that that would not do much. The market in its entirety is changing, and we -old dogs- are just that, old. Our voices resonate thenderously within the walls of forums, but outside, we are vastly outnumbered by people who enjoy Fortnite, COD and other live service titles.
I want the 80s-90s back...

 

[bighugeguns]

Sony tweeted this after the Bluepoint closure news....

Yeah, good luck with Marathon now.

This was a sure shot way to start up the machine again that steamrolled Concord.

 

[Northeastmonk]

GaaS has poisoned the well at Sony. Holy !

 

[StereoVsn]

WTF. And "At the same time, we're operating in an increasingly challenging industry environment. "

Highest profits and revenue in history. Fuck you and the GaaS and Horizon horse you ride in, Hulst.

 

[tTHANOSs]

Wtf. Stupid GaaS. The remakes were good. Just have them remake bloodborne. Hopefully some of people can find jobs within Playstation. Talented studio.

 

[bender]

What a complete and utter waste of Bluepoint's time, talent, and resources. I hope the former devs can find a much better home.

I wouldn't worry about that too much. Worst case is they reform, potentially downsized, and give the likes of Nightdive some competition.

 

[Plague Doctor]

Sony tweeted this after the Bluepoint closure news....

That timing.

Sony burns down a studio that remade classics and just tosses more GaaS on the fire.

Well I hope Marathon has an amazing cash shop. Then the closure of Bluepoint will atleast have been the fertile soil for more skins for Live Service slop. Hope they do the stand up thing and atleast give some Marathon funbucks to the artists they plagiarized to purchase these amazing skins.

 

[SomeNorseGuy]

All aboard the Sony GaaS train.

Succeed or fail , I have no interest being a part of it. Been a great ride since 1998 and up until last gen, but nothing lasts forever I guess. ♡

It just reconfirms my decision that my next box under the living room TV will be a mini PC.

 

[Dacvak]

Dude what the hell. Just seeing the news now. That makes no sense.

 

[Kronark]

Bluepoint dies but those shit heads at Bungie keep getting to burning billions of dollars?

Keep giving me reasons to not buy a PS6 Sony... As is that Demon Souls remake is one of the few exclusives on the PS5 worth a shit.

 

[SolarFry]

The laid off people will start their own company, BluerPoint, then eventually Sony will hire them to remake Bloodborne, be very impressed and buy them again.

 

[mckmas8808]

Even if they couldn't somehow remake Bloodborne, they could have remade Infamous 1 & 2.

A Infamous remake as well done as Demon's Souls would have been a slam dunk success among old Playstation customers. Shit I would have certainly bought that.

I don't think many are considering this but how possible is it that Nixxes has ate BluePoint's lunch and took their spot?

Is it possible BP wanted to make their own stuff and Sony didn't want that?

 

[The artful mincer]

It's just funny that everyone chasing the Fortnite dream didn't bother to study how luck Epic got with it. Save the World wasn't exactly lighting the world on fire and Battle Royale was added on a whim and then blew up.

This.

Fortnite blowing up has to be the luckiest crap shoot in Videogame history.

 

[digoutyoursoul]

Gaas games are deliberately long drawn out experiences to keep a player invested with their time and money. It makes no sense to flip the script on a successful strategy they had and have several studios work on these things for the next generation.

You have to have something considerably better than the best of that genre to tempt players away from the one or two that they are already heavily invested in and even then, if your plan is to make several of these fucking things, how many do you expect to be successful in the long run?

I don't understand the thinking, they are supposed to be well paid, highly smart people who have foresight and objectivity, either that or I am stupd as fuck.

 

[GloveSlap]

Wtf are you even talking about? Lots of well known sony fans are shitting on them and deservedly so.

What people and Sony doesn't understand is that they're still mostly coasting off the foundations laid during the ps3 and ps4 cycle. The biggest Playstation IPs today either established their roots in the ps3 or ps4 cycle.

That good will led to the success they're now enjoying with the ps5. However, during this generation, they've done very little to nurture those IPs. To make matters worse, the try anything spirit that led to a huge variety in games is nowhere to be found.

Come PS6, they're going to find out hard. They already had trouble getting people to upgrade from PS4 to PS5. Thankfully, XBOX shit the bed so they could absorb some of their audience and some new entrants as well. I don't see where the tail wind for the ps6 is going to come from.

As a playstation fan, I can confidently say that this is the worst Playstation generation in history.

They are definitely riding high right now due in large part to eating up Xbox's market share. I don't think console gaming is growing anywhere near as much as PC, so they definitely have to be careful in getting too cocky and complacent.

 

[Sinozen]

These retards in studios like Bluepoint need to see themselves for what they are. You're a remake studio, remake actual masterpieces with modern graphics. That's it. Stop getting these ideas that you can do something knew. They should have asked Sony for the next remake and left it at that. Don't waste resources on some big new project.

There's no evidence that they refused to remake more games. Sony rejected all of their pitches.

 

[Fabieter]

I mean, are they supposed to just cancel their scheduled marketing tweets for the day?

I mean its not smart to connect the closure of a beloved studio with upcoming gaas slop. Could hurt it in a way.

 

[IAmAnAgnostic]

Hmmm. Stupid move by Sony, but their last game was the Demon's Souls remake which had a long list of questionable to terrible decisions, and they couldn't manage to finish the unfinished area for it even..

Regardless, better to keep them around than Concord type people, odd choice.

 

[jibbles]

Herman 'Spence' Hulst

 

[semiconscious]

It's not supposed to make sense to you and me because we're operating with almost no information.

I'm sure it made sense the BluePoint and Sony at the time...because they have all the information.

but wasn't this the explanation for the covid lockdowns?...

 

[Plague Doctor]

Herman 'Spence' Hulst

I'll have you know Daddy Phil has probably sold more Playstations in his career than Hulst.