Most recent word was Miyazaki is interested in a remake but wants From to do it themselves. From is always busy enough with new stuff that they don't have the bandwidth to take it. Sony respects this and so it sits.

Bluepoint pitched a Bloodborne remake, but FromSoftware turned it down, not Sony

Now, a new report by Bloomberg claims that Bluepoint did, in fact, approach FromSoft in early 2025, pitching a remake of the 2015 game. It's said that "the studio was told that the numbers made sense, but FromSoftware didn't want it to happen".

Interestingly, former president of Sony Interactive Entertainment Shuhei Yoshida posited the same this time last year, saying: "Bloodborne is one of the most popular asks on my Twitter/X. And the people wonder why we haven't really done anything... it should be easy, right?

"Miyazaki-san really, really loved Bloodborne, what he created. So I think he is interested but he's so successful and he's so busy, so he cannot do it himself, and he doesn't want anyone else to touch it."

And at least some of their flagship games were ported to PC by a developer that didn't bother with optimization, leading to ridiculously high system requirements, so only a fraction of PC gamers would reasonably be able play them. (I'm looking at you, The Last of Us.)

High prices, late releases, badly performing ports, forced online accounts... Each of these mistakes is a slap in a potential customer's face. Together, they practically guarantee poor sales.

Maybe they think recent RAM and GPU prices will lead many PC gamers to start buying Playstations? I doubt it.

A bit sad for me that I won't be playing the next Horizon game. Oh well. Enough other games to play. Maybe I'll buy the latest god of war game if the price comes down enough. I'm patient.

Corporate suits love ignoring player feedback and telling people they're wrong.

No, we're goddamn sick of enshittification and would rather PlayStation failed than give into it.

You do not need to feel bad. The next Horizon game is a live service grift.

I’ve bought almost everything they’ve released. The one major exception is Stellar Blade, which they infected with Denuvo malware. By the time they remove the malware — if they ever remove the malware — the amount I will be willing to pay is far less than what they asked for. Maybe $20 if I’m bored. Fuck Sony.

That's not going to get me to buy a PS6. PS5 is at least my only (UHD) Blu-ray player that I rarely ever play games on. Not buying another PlayStation in the future for not even averaging 1 exclusive game a year that I'd want to play

Exactly. This is Sony declaring victory in the console wars. You could argue "But Nintendo", but Nintendo was never playing the same game as Sony & Microsoft. You want to play Nintendo games, you buy a Nintendo. You want to play Sony games, Sony says you have to buy a Sony PlayStation.

I'm not a fan, but it could work.

When almost half of their income comes from MTX and other services purchases, their first-party games were never, ever going to be simultaneous releases. Sony wants as many users platformed in their ecosystem as possible, and exclusivity is one of the ways you do that. This was a pretty simple ROI calculation, and when you're already losing Steam's cut, it would take solid performance to be worthwhile.

The above comment mentions goodwill, and that's another thing; Sony burnt up the goodwill they earned with PC users (and probably then some) with the PSN nonsense for these ports. It's like how Nvidia continually gets bad press for their gaming GPU division, at some point you gotta look at how it's affecting your overall brand.

Damn, I was really looking forward to Ghost of Yotei after falling in love with Ghost of Tsushima. I bet Sony is betting they can snag guys like me into a console purchase for whatever the favorite franchise sequel release is. Idk if that’s a Japanese cultural misunderstanding or just plain stupidity, but they’re gonna be disappointed.

Are you serious?! How is that ok?

These all sound like reasons for Sony to get out of the console market. (And maybe start making PCs that go head to head with Steam Machines.)

This just in, Sony announces they HATE money!

You want some reasons why they shouldn’t? The PS5 is wildly successful. Moving to PC means they need to migrate the PS store to PC with all their players and their libraries as well, probably renegotiating on publishing rights for every game on PS, spending all that money, and then ultimately end up with fewer customers, 70% on Sony titles and nothing from third parties sold to people playing on Steam.

Or they can just keep doing what they’re doing and get 100% on Sony titles, 30% on everything else, and remain the dominant gaming destination for most households.