Sony buys Demon’s Souls remake developer Bluepoint Games • Eurogamer.net
“… we’re operating on original content right now.”
Bluepoint Games has joined PlayStation Studios next Sony’s acquisition of the developer.
This is a significant boon for PlayStation. Bluepoints Online games is renowned for its excellent remasters and ports, lots of of which are PlayStation titles.
The developer’s past challenge was the PlayStation 5 remake of Demon’s Souls, which received significant acclaim and 1.4m gross sales at launch. It obtained comparable praise for its PlayStation 4 remake of Shadow of the Colossus.
Bluepoint experienced also introduced the first 3 Uncharted titles onto the PS4 as section of the Nathan Drake Selection.
But Bluepoint has even bigger ambitions. In an interview with IGN, Marco Thrush, president of Bluepoint Video games stated: “Our next challenge, we’re performing on unique material appropriate now. We cannot communicate about what that is, but that’s the up coming phase in the evolution for us.
“Our crew is a quite hugely skilled staff, the normal knowledge amid most people today is about 15 yrs, and all of them arrive from initial progress. It’s not like we’re a bunch of developers that received experienced up on building remasters and remakes.
“We have that original recreation growth mentality in our hearts, and that is what we’re now prepared, at last completely ready with the aid of Sony to force ahead and present what we can do, and exhibit what PlayStation can do.”
In a post on the PlayStation Site, head of PlayStation Studios Herman Hulst mentioned: “With every of its initiatives, Bluepoint has lifted the bar on console-defining visuals and gameplay, and the studio’s broad knowledge in globe setting up and character creation will be a large as well as for potential PlayStation Studios houses.”
It can be no top secret that PlayStation has ideas not just to remaster or remake its more mature titles, but also has ambitions to port a lot more titles to Personal computer, such as Uncharted 4.
Sony has been on really a expending spree. Just yesterday it was declared that Manchester-centered Fabrik Game titles was also becoming a member of PlayStation studios. In July, Sony acquired Nixxes, who is well known for its Personal computer ports. And in June, it acquired Returnal developer Housemarque.
