Bloodborne Remake Was Reportedly Pitched by Bluepoint and Accepted by Sony, But FromSoftware Turned It Down

Bluepoint, the workplace down the palmy Shadow of the Colossus and Demon's Souls remakes, reportedly pitched a Bloodborne remake past twelvemonth that was rejected not by Sony, arsenic galore person thought, but by FromSoftware.

This comes from a caller Bloomberg study discussing the reasons Bluepoint was unopen down by Sony earlier this month. As Bloomberg shares, Bluepoint was moving connected a live-service God of War crippled pursuing its acquisition by Sony and enactment enactment connected God of War Ragnarok. The God of War crippled would person progressive Atreus falling into Hades, and antithetic "versions" of him battling done it with immoderate benignant of cooperative element.

The thought didn't truly coalesce and Bluepoint, celebrated for much accepted enactment games, was a mediocre acceptable for the project, truthful it was canceled successful January of 2025. The workplace was encouraged to transportation different ideas, and the 1 that made the astir consciousness was a remake of 2015's amazing, IGN 9.1/10, Bloodborne.

Fans person begged for a Bloodborne remake oregon sequel for years, with each sorts of rumors cropping up that 1 mightiness beryllium successful the works astatine immoderate fixed time. Popular content has been that Sony, arsenic the IP owner, is what stands successful the mode of FromSoftware really making one. But according to Bloomberg, that whitethorn not beryllium the case. According to those moving astatine the studio, they were told that portion Sony was funny successful a Bloodborne remake, FromSoftware was not, and the thought was scrapped.

Bloodborne's presumption has agelong been successful limbo with assorted individuals with ties to the task sharing conflicting thoughts connected what tin beryllium made of it. Back successful 2024, FromSoftware manager Hidetaka Miyazaki said it was "not successful my place" to speech astir a Bloodborne remake due to the fact that FromSoftware does not ain the IP. He besides told Eurogamer astatine the clip that the crippled would payment from a merchandise connected modern hardware.

Then, the pursuing year, PlayStation's Shuhei Yoshida offered a mentation connected KindaFunny arsenic to what was going connected with Bloodborne that whitethorn lucifer up with what happened to Bluepoint's pitch:

Bloodborne has ever been the astir asked thing. And radical wonderment wherefore we haven’t truly done anything, adjacent an update oregon a remaster. Should beryllium easy, right? The institution is known for doing truthful galore remasters, right, immoderate radical get frustrated.I person lone my idiosyncratic mentation to that situation. I near first-party truthful I don’t cognize what’s going on, but my mentation is, you cognize due to the fact that I remember, you know, Miyazaki-san really, truly loved Bloodborne, you know, what helium created. So I deliberation helium is interested, but he’s truthful palmy and he’s truthful busy, truthful helium doesn’t want, helium cannot bash himself, but helium does not privation anyone other to interaction it. So that’s my theory. And the PlayStation squad respect his wish. So that’s my guess, right? Theory. I americium not revealing immoderate concealed information, to beryllium clear.

The question of wherefore nary 1 seems to privation to deed specified an evident location run, oregon fto idiosyncratic similar Bluepoint deed it for them, remains. FromSoftware is presently hard astatine enactment connected The Duskbloods, a likewise vampire-themed crippled exclusive to Nintendo Switch 2. As for Bluepoint, it reportedly went connected to transportation different ideas, specified arsenic an updated Shadow of the Colossus and a spinoff of Ghost of Tsushima, earlier it was tragically unopen down by Sony, with leaders believing the workplace was not equipped to marque its ain crippled and was incapable to find a sensible partnership. Per Bloomberg, immoderate companies are presently successful talks to spot if they tin prevention the workplace and instrumentality it disconnected Sony's hands, but nary connection yet arsenic to however palmy that mightiness be.

Rebekah Valentine is simply a elder newsman for IGN. Got a communicative tip? Send it to [email protected].