PlayStation is kicking the yr off on the backfoot, with SIE Bend Studio and Bluepoint Video games’ respective reside service titles having been cancelled. However whereas a number of related previous cancellations by the corporate have been tied to these video games’ builders closing their doorways, Sony says that gained’t be the case with these two particularly.
Reported by Bloomberg, a Sony spokesperson has said that closures aren’t on the docket for Bend and Bluepoint, and that PlayStation is at present working with each studios to determine what’s subsequent with them.
“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 subsequent initiatives,” Sony mentioned.
That mentioned, whether or not or not the challenge cancellations will deliver layoffs stays to be seen. Typically, that does are usually the case, however all Sony has mentioned in an inner memo is that it’s “working carefully with Bend and Bluepoint to find out what are the subsequent initiatives and plan to do every little thing we will to make sure there’s minimal enterprise impression.”
In fact, there’s no ensures that Sony sticks to its present plans (firms don’t all the time try this after main failures), however one would hope that it does, no less than. In fact, with each studios now gearing as much as begin fully new initiatives from scratch, it doesn’t seem like we’re going to see something from both of them for a number of years no less than.
