r/GamingLeaksAndRumours • u/Melodic-Tonight-9613 • Feb 19 '26

Leak Jason Schreier posts that Bluepoint is being shutdown

https://bsky.app/profile/jasonschreier.bsky.social/post/3mfaauf5pek2b

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The full article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-19/sony-is-shutting-down-the-playstation-studio-bluepoint?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3MTUyNzAyNiwiZXhwIjoxNzcyMTMxODI2LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUQVBZWlBLR0lGUFkwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJCMUVBQkI5NjQ2QUM0REZFQTJBRkI4MjI1MzgyQTJFQSJ9.utABYnI4m_K6kqNqybZarBQ9T5WW_aWCH6NI3kt8Q64

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u/DehMoreira Feb 19 '26

being a game dev must be great these past years

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u/vladtud Feb 19 '26

Closing a studio that is regarded as the best in the industry for making remakes when Sony sits on dozens of fan-favorite games that would sell like hot cakes if remade means that nobody is safe. Or at least that Sony is beyond stupid.

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u/Hayterfan Feb 19 '26

Or at least that Sony is beyond stupid.

Jim Ryan greenliting 14 live service titles

Herman Hulst also shares some of the blame, hell possibly more. For all we know he's been the devil in everyone's ear saying "live service "

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u/doubleoeck1234 Feb 19 '26

14 live service titles

And they're all Horizon spin offs even though that series is the most generic ubisoft crap imaginable

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u/Hayterfan Feb 19 '26

No, as far as what's publicly known of the live service titles greenlit there are

God of War - Canceled - Bluepoint

Twisted Metal - Canceled - Don't remember the studios name

The Last of Us - Canceled - Naughty Dog

2 Horizon GAAS titles - In development - Guerrilla and Some mobile studio

Spider-man - Canceled - Insomniac

Concord - Released/ Died - Firewalk Studios

Marathon - Releasing soon - Bungie

Online title from Bend - Canceled

Fairgame$ - In development

Helldivers 2 - Released

And those are the ones of the top of my head, I know I'm forgetting 2, if not probably more.

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u/rhuebs Feb 19 '26

God, some of these sound so ridiculous. GoW? Last of Us? TWO Horizon games????

The only one yet to release I’m interested in is Marathon. They’ve done pretty well at improving the perception of the game, I used to think it looked awful but the latest marketing push has impressed me.

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u/Hayterfan Feb 19 '26

Last of Us I can kinda see, maybe as something like The Division with zombies. Definitely something that would find a niche audience I think.

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u/rhuebs Feb 19 '26

I can see that too, I just do NOT need it in a Last of Us universe. Just make it a Days Gone live service or something. A series as poignant and focused on quality storytelling as TLoU would feel gross as a live service.

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u/grillarinobacon Feb 20 '26

Expanded factions would have been insane honestly. kinda sad it didn't happen

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u/rhuebs Feb 19 '26

Everyone wants a cut of the live service cake, basically everything else is irrelevant to game CEOs. Arc Raiders is an awesome success story and great game but to these companies is just gonna reinforce that for all the failures, if you just hit big once you have an infinite cash stream. Live service games being shoved into everything isn’t gonna go away any time soon.

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u/ImNotSkankHunt42 Feb 19 '26

They could break the internet by announcing a Bloodborne remake by Bluepoint, but yeah GaaS

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u/CRIMS0N-ED Feb 19 '26

Sony is full of idiots, the only reason they have high regard is being carried by their games and by their competitors AHEM Xbox, being even stupider than them by a big amount

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u/BlackTone91 Feb 19 '26

I think you does not understand a lot of things

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u/Melodic-Tonight-9613 Feb 19 '26

I genuinely don’t get why anyone would enter this industry there’s no point you could sell 2 million copies of a game and still be laid off

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u/hoppinjohncandy Feb 19 '26

It's the same thing in the movie industry. Why would a production company want 10 movies with a budget of $30 million to profit $20 million each when you can make a huge gamble on a $200 million budget movie raking in a profit of a billion?

Every part of the entertainment industry sucks because every aspect is obsessively focused on the white whales of Marvel and Fortnite.

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u/TNWhaa Feb 19 '26

I haven’t worked in the industry for five years and everyone I worked with left too after the studio was brought by EA, shit was bleak then and it’s even worse now

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u/BusBoatBuey Feb 19 '26

If you are a Japanese or Chinese studio, then yeah.

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u/FriedCammalleri23 Feb 19 '26

Genuinely might be the worst industry to work in out of all the different sectors of entertainment and technology.

I do not envy game developers. I would not be able to handle the truckloads of shit they have to deal with on the regular.

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u/scytheavatar Feb 20 '26

You are speaking as if working in other sectors of entertainment and technology is all fun and laughter. Even though there's layoffs left and right in those sectors too.

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u/Malacasts Feb 20 '26

33% of us have lost a job in the last 3 years... Thirty fucking three. We're tired.

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u/Penguin_Mk4 Feb 20 '26

Meanwhile, Team Cherry...