The sad news the other week for fans of Bluepoint Games and their Demon’s Souls remake with the shuttering of the remake’s developer has been made all the more harder. Bloomberg reports that the Bluepoint team had last year pitched Sony a remake of another FromSoftware title in the still-PlayStation 4 exclusive Bloodborne.
According to the report, Bluepoint was told by Sony that the numbers made sense, and agreed to the plan, but FromSoftware nixed the idea. As for why FromSoftware said no, former PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida speculated in an interview with Kinda Funny Games that he thought FromSoftware president Hidetaka Miyazaki was interested in remaking the classic game, but too busy to do it himself and wouldn’t let anyone else have it.
“I left first-party so I don’t know what’s going on, but my theory is, you know because I remember, Miyazaki-san really, really loved Bloodborne, you know, what he created. So I think he is interested, but he’s so successful and he’s so busy, so he doesn’t want, he cannot do himself, but he does not want anyone else to touch it. So that’s my theory. And the PlayStation team respect his wish. So that’s my guess, right?”
After being turned down, Bluepoint then proposed an updated version of Shadow of the Colossus, which Bluepoint had previously remade in 2018 for the PlayStation 4. However, Sony turned that down.
Eventually, it was revealed that Bluepoint Games had gone more than a year without securing a new project to develop, which ultimately turned into Sony closing the studio down late last month. According to people familiar with Sony’s thinking, Sony felt that Bluepoint was longer able to make its own game and couldn’t find a partnership that “made sense.”