PlayStation is kicking the 12 months off on the backfoot, with SIE Bend Studio and Bluepoint Video games’ respective stay service titles having been cancelled. However whereas a number of comparable previous cancellations by the corporate have been tied to these video games’ builders closing their doorways, Sony says that received’t be the case with these two particularly.
Reported by Bloomberg, a Sony spokesperson has acknowledged that closures aren’t on the docket for Bend and Bluepoint, and that PlayStation is at the moment working with each studios to determine what’s subsequent with them.
“Bend and Bluepoint are extremely achieved groups who’re valued members of the PlayStation Studios household, and we’re working carefully with every studio to find out what are the subsequent tasks,” Sony mentioned.
That mentioned, whether or not or not the challenge cancellations will carry layoffs stays to be seen. Usually, that does are typically the case, however all Sony has mentioned in an inside memo is that it’s “working carefully with Bend and Bluepoint to find out what are the subsequent tasks and plan to do all the pieces we are able to to make sure there’s minimal enterprise influence.”
After all, there’s no ensures that Sony sticks to its present plans (corporations don’t at all times try this after main failures), however one would hope that it does, at the very least. After all, with each studios now gearing as much as begin fully new tasks from scratch, it doesn’t appear to be we’re going to see something from both of them for a number of years at the very least.
