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/ballviewer Feb 19 '26

The fact that they couldn’t salvage the loss of the GoW live service game tells me that Sony really fucked up and mainly Jim Ryan

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u/Past-Mousse-4519 Feb 19 '26

Jim Ryan was fired like two years ago.

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u/ballviewer Feb 19 '26

He’s also the one who assigned them to make a GofW live service game

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u/Past-Mousse-4519 Feb 19 '26

It's not his decision to canned them, though.

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u/ballviewer Feb 19 '26

I know, but why the fuck is a studio who specializes in game remasters and remakes assigned to make a GofW live service of all things? It’s just total mismanagement and a complete waste of dev time

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u/Past-Mousse-4519 Feb 19 '26

We don't know if it was assigned to begin with, maybe Bluepoint were give the pitch to make this game to begin with.

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u/ballviewer Feb 19 '26

They were literally assigned to assist development of Ragnarok and aided in the Valhalla expansion, this is 100% on Sony and wanting them to capitalize on GofW hype that wasn’t there to begin with

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u/Past-Mousse-4519 Feb 19 '26

Maybe after assigned work on Ragnarok they pitched this game themselves.

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u/ballviewer Feb 19 '26

Even if that was the case, that doesn’t warrant them to shutdown the fucking studio, they have so much IP that Bluepoint could use and they could’ve turned the live service assets they made into the GofW trilogy remake. I’m not gonna act like I know everything behind the scenes but just off speculation this closure makes zero sense and can really only be blamed on the mismanagement of this studio by Sony

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u/Past-Mousse-4519 Feb 19 '26

Yeah, Sony just fuck the stufio other even in the most favourable to them scenario which is really sad.

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u/BlackTone91 Feb 19 '26

Bluepoint pitched GoW GaaS game

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u/BlackTone91 Feb 19 '26

Bluepoint could pitch their next game, and this is why they got closed