These past few years have seen both Sony and Microsoft acquire a number of game studios to create exclusive content for their respective consoles. For Sony, this has mainly consisted of officially adding studios it's worked closely with to the PlayStation Studios umbrella, with Returnal developer Housemarque and Ratchet & Clank studio Insomniac Games joining Sony recently. Now Sony has acquired yet another studio for its roster in the form of Bluepoint Games, the developer behind the critically-acclaimed Demon's Souls remake.
Months ago, PlayStation actually jumped the gun on the Bluepoint Games acquisition announcement, prematurely revealing it on social media before pulling those posts down. Now it's official, as Sony has formally acquired Bluepoint Games. And not only that, but it's been confirmed that Bluepoint Games' next title is an original project, its first completely original game since it released 2006's Blast Master for the PS3.
Over the years, Bluepoint Games has developed a reputation for making high quality video game remakes and remasters. It got started with the God of War Collection in 2009 and worked on subsequent collections for Metal Gear Solid, ICO, and Uncharted. In 2018, Bluepoint launched a full-fledged Shadow of the Colossus remake in what was its most ambitious project up to that point, which was then followed by the celebrated PS5 launch title, Demon's Souls.
Rumors have been swirling that Bluepoint's next game is a Metal Gear Solid remake, but it appears as though those rumors weren't true. Unless Bluepoint is swerving fans about its next project, its next game is going to be an original work of some kind. And since completely original works take a bit more time than remakes and remasters, it's unlikely that the project will be revealed to the public anytime soon.
Bluepoint Games has worked almost exclusively with PlayStation over the years, so Sony acquiring the company makes a lot of sense. Considering how impressive Bluepoint's work has been on the remakes, remasters, and collections it's released alongside PlayStation, it will definitely be interesting to see what it can do when allowed to work on a completely original project, though again, it will likely be quite some time before anyone is able to see the game.
Sony may not be the only one making a major acquisition soon. There are rumors that a Bethesda-level Xbox acquisition announcement is just a matter of time, though nothing official has been announced about that at the time of this writing.
Source: IGN