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After the catastrophe of Concord Sony is reportedly cancelling other projects including a God of War live service game

January 17, 2025 4 Min Read
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There are flops, after which there was Harmony. A primary-party PlayStation hero shooter from ex-Bungie devs, Harmony had been in manufacturing for round six years and the event prices had been reported by Kotaku as an eye-watering $200 million (a determine that some business figures did dispute). It launched in August final 12 months and lasted 11 days earlier than Sony pulled the plug, and shut down the sport’s developer Firewalk Studios.

Within the graveyard of stay service video games Harmony may be the most important gravestone, and that appears to have targeted some minds over at PlayStation. Beforehand the noises coming from Sony had been all concerning the significance of stay service video games to its future technique, and it had introduced plans to launch greater than 10 stay service video games by the 2025 fiscal 12 months, which ends on March 31, 2026.

Now? Not a lot. A brand new Bloomberg report reveals that “following a current evaluation” PlayStation has canceled two unannounced stay service video games in improvement at subsidiaries Bend Studio and Bluepoint Video games. Bend is best-known for Days Gone and, again within the day, Syphon Filter, whereas Bluepoint primarily handles high-profile remakes like Demon’s Souls.

It is reported that the Bluepoint recreation was a stay service God of Conflict recreation, which actually does drive house how absurd issues received there for a second. I can not consider a worse match for a stay service title than a singleplayer hack-and-slash motion recreation that’s laser-focused on its central character (and latterly his son), and also you do marvel why anybody ever thought it could be a good suggestion. Perhaps I am flawed and it could’ve been superb, we’ll by no means know, however I in some way doubt it.

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“Bend and Bluepoint are extremely completed groups who’re valued members of the PlayStation Studios household, and we’re working carefully with every studio to find out what are the following tasks,” a Sony spokesperson advised Bloomberg. Neither studio is in danger because of the cancellations, although the corporate didn’t touch upon whether or not there can be lay offs.

Dwell service as a style is irresistible to main publishers as a result of there’s simply a lot cash available, and success can result in a golden goose like Fortnite. Sony has had some success with 2024’s Helldivers 2, and clearly now owns stay service specialist Bungie, however it’s additionally beforehand cancelled different tasks (similar to Spider-Man and Twisted Metallic stay service titles) and the expertise of one thing like Harmony have to be the company equal of a slap within the face with a moist fish. Maybe the stay service gold rush is lastly slowing down, even when it should by no means cease.

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