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PlayStation Acquires Demon's Souls Dev Bluepoint Games - Beyond Mini-Episode

Beyond

IGN

Entertainment News, News, Video Games, Leisure

4.44.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

BEYOND! The PlayStation news of the week isn't done, so Jonathon Dornbush and Brian Altano get together to discuss the news of PlayStation acquiring Bluepoint, the developers behind Demon's Souls and Shadow of the Colossus remakes. Jonathon also spoke with PlayStation's Hermen Hulst and Bluepoint's Marco Thrush, so he offers some details from his interview, including Bluepoint's desire to make a new game next, and we discuss PlayStation's overall acquisition strategy.

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I'm going to be here with you.

0:07.0

I'm going to be here with you.

0:11.0

Beyond and hello, everyone, Jonathan Dorbysh here with some exciting PlayStation news to

0:15.0

discuss joining me is Brian, Altonna.

0:17.0

Beyond.

0:18.0

Beyond Brian.

0:19.0

Good to be here with you.

0:20.0

Because of course we're talking about the latest PlayStation acquisition, Blue Point Games.

0:26.0

Very, very exciting. They are now the 16th PlayStation Studios, sort of first party studio in the family.

0:33.0

They most recently, of course, made Demon's Souls, the PS5 launch title, and one of the first PS5 exclusives around the

0:40.0

Shadow of the Classes remake on PS4, the Uncharted Nathan Drake Collection on PS4, Gravity Rush Remastered.

0:45.0

They've sort of been in a whole remaster remake space with PlayStation for a while.

0:49.0

And now they've finally decided to, I guess, developer Mary, I don't really know what the tech is.

0:55.0

Yeah, we've seen a couple of studios, sort of adjacent to PlayStation, get, make it official, basically.

1:05.0

Right? We've seen it with Insomniac. We saw it with Housemark just recently.

1:09.0

These are studios that have long running relationships with PlayStation, making exclusive games or just making games in general.

1:15.0

And now they're getting the support of the Sony themselves, officially.

1:21.0

And that's, I think, very exciting. It's very exciting for people who like these games.

1:26.0

It's very exciting for people who want to see these studios thrive.

1:30.0

And also because, you know, it doesn't really, this doesn't feel like a scenario where these studios are taking away from the competition

1:38.0

because they weren't really making a bunch of multi-platform games to begin with.

1:41.0

So if you're a big Xbox fan, like this isn't a gigantic loss for you either, right?

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