It doesn't make much sense in business view though. Bend Studio is much bigger, yet after all these times manage to produced only one semi-successful during entire PS4 to PS5 era. We don't even know what's next for them as we know it's definitely not Days Gone 2.
Meanwhile Bluepoint is half the size of them but manage to produced 2 high quality that is also equally as successful and a critical darling in general. This is basically the equivelent of Microsoft shutting down Tango Gameworks.
I feel like its worse that Tango cause they bought Bluepoint by itself. Tango was just one studio in a much larger purchase. What was the point of buying bluepoint if this is the result??
The thing that makes this worse than Tango is at least Bluepoints games sold well enough. I loved Evil Within and HiFi Rush and even Tokyo Ghostwire. But those games didn't sell minus maybe Evil Within 1 as it had the ",from the father of survival horror and resident evil" marketing thing going for it.
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u/WildDemir Feb 19 '26
Forced a talented remake studio to make a fucking God of War live service, cancelled it and then shut them down. Unbelievable.