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[coachmcguirk91]

I believe Sony sees the future of the console landscape and is incredibly concerned. Who knows in 10 years whether consoles will even be a thing? They are just throwing darts at a wall trying to find long term revenue

Xbox becoming multi platform is hilarious given how much Sony has mostly shit the bed this gen. That is at least one solace that Playstation gamers can take

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

 

[saintjules]

Oh dear what a waste of time and money

We don't know how much time or money was wasted.

 

[Yoboman]

Wasn’t Jim Ryan the main pusher of GaaS?

All that was in the oven long before Hermen was top dog

Hermen has been head of PS Studios since 2019

His tenure there was mediocre at best and now he is co CEO

 

[Interfectum]

They put Bluepoint on a fucking live service game?? Idiots…

 

[phant0m]

Ninty gonna take all your budget this year w Switch 2, MK9 and whatever 3D Mario comes out

 

[GrayChild]

I can't wait the usual fanboys to spin this in a positive light and go full defense force. What's it gonna be this time? "The other studios are almost done with their projects?" "Sony is just course correcting"? "They're dropping the GaaS thing entirely"?

 

[Horseganador]

Hermen needs to be fired NOW, you useless brave guy, what a mess he's making with Sony's first games.

 

[coachmcguirk91]

How did Sony think a studio of 80 people could develop a GOW gaas game with no experience in developing GOW or gaas games?

 

[SJRB]

BLUEPOINT WAS WORKING ON A LIVE SERVICE GOD OF WAR GAME ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS SONY YOU STUPID MOTHERFUCKERS

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

This is Jim’s legacy. If anything, Hermen is cleaning it up. I actually commend the guy for having the balls to make these tough decisions while there is still time, instead of running PlayStation into the ground. Hermen’s only mistake so far is putting way too much weight into the Horizon IP. Given it’s from GG, even that bias is understandable.

Isn’t Hermen the one who thought Concord was the future of PlayStation with “Star Wars-like potential”, and it was off-limits for criticism because it was his baby?

 

[Trogdor1123]

A GoW GaaS? What in Asgard’s name would that have looked like?

I was wondering too. That isn’t well suited to that style of game.

 

[Boglin]

One day you're going to wake up as a live service game and then you'll regret all this forum violence.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

GAF and Reeee will butt heads on many issues, but not about a GOW GAAS game.

Both forums in equal agreement and disgust Sony/Bluepoint working on that.

 

[Guardian Monkey]

GOW world live service like Destiny could work. You don’t have to be god damn Kratos all the time. That could have been interesting. Far better sounding than Horizon IMO.

 

[LectureMaster]

Bluepoint was working on a live service project? You gotta be fucking kidding me. Herman is a fucking completely joke.

 

[phant0m]

Hermen has been head of PS Studios since 2019

His tenure there was mediocre at best and now he is co CEO

Yes, but he reported to Jim until his retirement, who was known to be a GaaS/live service fan.

And if your boss says “make more GaaS”, that’s what you fucking do

 

[Antwix]

lmao literally everything as a gaas except games that makes sense like killzone/socom

 

[PatientGamer]

At this point more games have been cancelled than been released since he took over.

 

[LimanimaPT]

This big switch in direction is making me hope that a Days Gone sequel can became true.
Believe!!

 

[diffusionx]

There goes another 2.

When Sony promoted years ago they had a shit ton of GAAS games (I think it was 12 which were all supposed to be released by 2025), lots of have cancelled already.

But does anyone remember if a Bend and Bluepoint GAAS game were part of the 12 at the time? Or are these 2 games on top of the 12?

had to have been, because we didnt know about many of them when they said they had 12.

right now it looks like we are getting Fairgame% and Horizon Online ROFL

edit: and Marathon oh no no no no no no

 

[Interfectum]

This big switch in direction is making me hope that a Days Gone sequel can became true.
Believe!!

Yeah in 5 years.

 

[semiconscious]

What a waste for Bluepoint.

what a waste of bluepoint. i mean, that's what sony bought them for? smh...

 

[PauloRoberto]

Gow lice service after THAT online mode in Ascension? Strange, to put it gently...

 

[ShaiKhulud1989]

Honesty? Good news.

 

[Chuck Berry]

Unfuckingreal dude

Worst and most embarrassing Sony generation I’ve ever experienced

 

[Mahavastu]

What is more shocking for Playstation: the very low output of their 1st party studios this gen or the way too large number of canceled projects and closed studios?

I mean we talk about Bend and Bluepoint here... Add to this the very long development times nowadays, and something seem to go really wrong this gen.

 

[HRK69]

Thank you Hermen

 

[adamsapple]

At this point more games have been cancelled than been released since he took over.

I think you might be right. Equal number of first party projects canceled than released, if not more.

 

[Perrott]

Hulst is a literal cancer

How did he ever think putting a remake studio on a GOW live service was a good idea?

Bring back the days Sony first party made passion projects

It was Bluepoint who wanted to make an original game, and that's what they were doing.

But if it was up to me, I'm with you, in no fucking world I would've allowed them to stop with remakes. In fact, I would've had them do the MGS remakes for Konami, on top of Bloodborne and, hell, even the God of War trilogy.

 

[nial]

Bluepoint wasn't working on anything on their own as per that slide from May. Considering that they usually have anoter studios directing ""their"" projects (see Demon's Souls remake), I assume this was being led by Santa Monica Studio, but then again SMS had its focus on SP projects as per that slide (again), so I believe that if this is accurate, shit probably got cancelled a while back.
Less surprising is Bend Studio, man these folks can't catch a break.
Edit: Jason says it happened today? That's insane if true, but kinda conflicting with what I thought I knew. Damn.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Men_in_Boxes

I am tiers above that trash source in terms of maturity, honesty, and intellect

...

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

 

[Imtjnotu]

A god of war live service..


Sony have you lost your fucking mind

 

[Embearded]

God Of War live service?

At this point we can safely assume they have a live service game for every one of their established IPs.
Who the hell thought this was a good idea?

Go back to cinematic single player games and maybe bring back Socom for a live service shooter.

 

[gow3isben]

Good.

But please don’t close them down let them do single player they are so talented

 

[Hookshot]

Thankfully we still have Fairgame$ and Marathon to look forward to.

 

[ThisIsMyDog]

God of war live service.. what a fucking idiots, fuck them all in their suits with blue whale sized dildo. Motherfuckers imbeciles destroying brand after brand, bring back old Sony or its gg for home consoles, sorry i'm drunk and get mad over such fools.

 

[LectureMaster]

I think you might be right. Equal number of first party projects canceled than released, if not more.

I think this is better.

 

[ReBurn]

Good, that frees up Bluepoint to remaster TLOU 2 again.

 

[veterangamerUK]

I can't wait the usual fanboys to spin this in a positive light and go full defense force. What's it gonna be this time? "The other studios are almost done with their projects?" "Sony is just course correcting"? "They're dropping the GaaS thing entirely"?

Yep, they're laughable

 

[TerribleAtThisGame]

I have nothing against online MP games at all but the idea of "every big seller BUT now the GaaS edition!" is comically fucking lame to me. I wouldn't buy a single one of these milking-the-cashcow releases.

I've had all major consoles for many gens now so it ain't some console warring...good lord Sony cannot get out of their own way.

 

[Hero of Spielberg]

Knowing the current state of Western Sony they'll probably now pivot those teams to immersive lesbian sims.

 

[Dr. Samuel Hayden]

A live service God of War game...

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[[Sigma]]

They deadass had Bluepoint working on a GOW live service game. Let me guess, they're going to gaslight folks into believing this was Bluepoint's idea the whole time.

 

[envyzeal]

Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier.bsky.social)

PlayStation fans have speculated for years about Bluepoint's new projects since the well-received PS5 remake of Demon's Souls (2020). I can report that from 2020-2022 they were helping on God of War Ragnarok. Since then they've been on the live-service project that was canceled today. Now, unclear

bsky.app

Two years on Ragnarok, two years on GoW live service, 4 years wasted

 

[Msamy]

Fuc. Hirman hulst forcing most of sony first party studios to develop bullshit gaas titles then canceled 90% of them which greatly affect sony first party studios output this gen. and firing developer's and close some studios
Also fuc. to anyone who gonna defend hirman hulst and playstation management cunts this gen, the only one's who needs to got fired right now at playstation are hirman hulst and his crew.

 

[AlphaDump]

So one was god of war... No mention of what Bend was working on?

I dont know what to even to say at this point. Easily the worst generation from Sony for me.

 

[Shifty1897]

When you factor all these cancellations and the Bungie purchase, what is this, a 5 billion dollar fumble? Execs are all still eating good though. I don't blame lazy devs, I blame retarded executives with no accountability.

 

[saintjules]

Thank you Hermen

He's not the only CEO making decisions remember?