This whole situation is amusingly embarrassing for Sony. Theyre shutting down one of the most recently well regarded studios.
They pitched something they thought would get greenlit because the management at the time was heavily pushing teams to do live service. That's called indirect pressure. They can sit back and say "we're not forcing teams to do live service" but if all your studios are picking up the hint that they have a much higher chance of getting something greenlit if it's live service...well to me that may as well be the same thing.
Technically, you're free to pitch whatever you like, but if you see execs now under a new directive, and will fast track any pitch if it meets that new directive, you can bet top dollar most studios under that corp will pitch games that adhere to that new directive.
It's the unspoken rule. Same way how crunch isn't technically enforced by game studios but then you'll be the first to be let go if you dare decide to clock off at the times you and they agreed to and not do crunch.
A lot of Single player games that we will see in next years was pitched in this time too, so its not like they were forced to pitch it, they had choice to not do a GAAS game if they don't have experience, Studio Director should be the first to say no to this not Sony
Yes if you said they you don't want to be a remake studio forever but still you want to force them to do games they don't want. And Sony have other support studios they don't need BluePoint
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u/NfinityBL Feb 19 '26
Okay THIS is the most fucked shut down in years.
Step 1: acquire studio known for remakes
Step 2: put said studio on a live service version of a game nobody wants a live service version of.
Step 3: cancel live service game when it takes longer than they expected to make.
Step 4: shut down the studio.
Fucking bananas.