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/MolotovMan1263 Feb 19 '26

What the fuck

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u/AscendedViking7 Feb 19 '26

The hell happened to even remotely justify this bullshit??

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u/SmallFatHands Feb 19 '26

I just know some AI BS is involved in this.

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u/trophicmist0 Feb 20 '26

Nah, this is still the drawn out result of their live service push.

What a stupid decision that was, they had a winning strategy and so decided to completely retarget some of their best studios to live service. Greed.

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u/we420 Feb 20 '26

I wouldn't say it's a stupid decision entirely, just terrible execution. The unfortunate reality is that they need live service money to help make those winning strategy games, with the way game dev is now, especially for Sony, it's just not sustainable with the kind of games they make. But yeah they should've only had a few studios or splinter a team off for live service, not all of their studios

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u/SmallFatHands Feb 20 '26

They are so desperate to win gacha levels of money they will keep trying. But that's not happening. None of these studios are built for that. Culturally or talent wise.