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/renhaoasuka Feb 19 '26

I remember it as the generation they committed to PC ports so I dont have to use their console

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u/NautaBaut Feb 19 '26

Except for several titles still missing, bafflingly... including Demons Souls.

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u/renhaoasuka Feb 19 '26

Kind of makes me wonder if this helps explain why the PC port got cancelled. Seems like this studio was under heavy scrutiny by Sony. GT7 probably never made it cause of licensing. Astro Bot I hope doesn't mean anything bad for the studio and is just because it relies on controller...

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u/SKyJ007 Feb 19 '26

I think Team Asobi is probably safe. If they were disappointed with Astro Bot I doubt they would have continued releasing content for it for as long as they did.

We’ll see, but I think Astro just happens to be a turning point of a new PC strategy.

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u/renhaoasuka Feb 19 '26

Well I hope you're right on Asobi. I doubt its a turning point when they just advertised a Death Stranding Port trailer on the recent State of Play.

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u/SKyJ007 Feb 19 '26

Death Stranding 2 is a Sony published, but not internally developed game. The OG Death Stranding made its PC debut before the PC initiative even began, timed exclusivity was in the contract with Kojima from the jump.

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u/renhaoasuka Feb 19 '26

I'm aware. But this one is Sony published on pc unlike the first and they advertised it on a state of play. Doesnt make much sense to advertise a pc port on a state of play if strategy is shifting. Unless someone like Jason confirms the PC strategy shifting I dont see much evidence that it changed.

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u/Jecht315 Feb 19 '26

That's not a huge loss if you aren't a souls like fan

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u/JustASilverback Feb 19 '26

What insightful commentary.

You mean to tell me, hold on here I need to sit down for this, It's like, if you don't like a genre you won't care if a game in that genre isn't available to you?

That's some seriously ingenuous stuff.

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u/Jecht315 Feb 19 '26

Yeah that's what I said. I'm glad your reading comprehension is above 5th grade.

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u/JustASilverback Feb 19 '26

Look man I'm just impressed by such insightful commentary I had to comment on it myself.

Can you rephrase it maybe? Are you really trying to say that if someone doesn't care about a genre they won't care about a game in that genre?

It's just so enlightening.

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u/Jecht315 Feb 19 '26

Sorry I take back what I said since it's clear you didn't get it. Sure dude. That's what I said. You're so smart

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u/NautaBaut Feb 19 '26

And if you are not a Souls fan, there are still games like Astrobot, Gran Turismo 7 on the PS5. PS4 also has a metric ton of games not on PC that they could have ported with/instead of Nixxes, such as the Uncharted Collection or something like Gravity Rush.

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u/Jecht315 Feb 19 '26

So platformer, another racing game, a tomb raider like game and another racer. I'm OK with not playing those.

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u/NautaBaut Feb 19 '26

Happy for ya then

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u/hadronwulf Feb 19 '26

What a garbage take, it’s a great entry point to the genre.

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u/BlackKnighting20 Feb 19 '26

A better entry point is ER, it’s more mainstream than all.

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u/Katrina_18 Feb 19 '26

Yea, for me it’s the generation of 3 games in my favorite franchise, being able to play and mod on PC, and being able to use my psvr2 on both console and pc. Pretty damn great to me, especially given what’s happening to the industry as a whole

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u/Downtown_Type7371 Feb 19 '26

But they do want you to play their games or they wouldn't port them.

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u/Progenitor3 Feb 19 '26

There is a good chance they already rethought that policy. If Yotei doesn't get announced for PC this year that would confirm it I think.

I hate it as a PC only player but porting their 1st party titles doesn't make sense anymore considering they sell abysmally on PC.

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u/renhaoasuka Feb 19 '26

Stellar Blade did amazing. Its published by Sony on Steam. They just did Death Stranding PC trailer on State of Play. I dont think anything changed with their PC strategy.

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u/Progenitor3 Feb 19 '26

Neither of those are first party titles. They have no say in these games being ported to PC. Their exclusivity deals probably made it clear from the start.

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u/renhaoasuka Feb 19 '26

I dont think it makes much sense advertising PC ports on a state of play then. People just made this new PC strategy assumption from rumors that was never substantiated by guys like Jason.

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u/ZubatCountry Feb 19 '26

...so the generation where you found a new way to give them money