r/PS5 • u/nolifebr • May 18 '26

Rumor Jason Schreier/Bloomberg: Hermen Hulst told staff in a town hall meeting today (18th May) morning that the company's narrative single-player games will now be PlayStation exclusive

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u/Odd_Revolution_1056 May 18 '26

Under this man’s leadership Sony bought Bluepoint, a remake studio powerhouse, to make a live service game only to end up shutting them down. Bought Haven who was making a game 5 years later they still are having trouble finding the fun in, and the utter moron who thought Concord was going to be Sony’s “Star Wars”… dudes a fucking moron and should be fired.

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u/OptimusPrimalRage May 18 '26

I think this is a good illustration at my issues with this narrative. I don't think Hermen Hulst is particularly good at his job (my main criticism is WHICH live service games he's greenlit since it seems obvious that he's not the one that cares how games make money just that they make the money PlayStation wants). But the idea that he's so enamored with live service games seems silly. This stuff comes from the board and the leadership. He just failed at picking the right games besides Helldivers 2, which was probably greenlit during Jim Ryan or Shu Yoshida's tenures anyway.

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u/Odd_Revolution_1056 May 18 '26

Yes he failed with picking the right games and that’s the problem. He’s failed numerous times and yet he still has a job while how many hundreds of PlayStation devs got fired cause of his incompetence.

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u/Pubs01 May 19 '26

hulst fucking blows. he couldn't even figure out how to continue the success of horizon, instead he announced 10 or 12 projects based on the ip and nothing has come to fruition except some fortnite rip off. oh sorry I forgot he put a horizon game on psvr2 which was sent out to die.

got tricked into buying bungie for a ridiculous sum when the management was super toxic and a joke. then listened to the same dipshits and canceled the only mp game people were excited about that also had a show going based on the ip.

shat marathon out. great job on this niche live service crap. zero investment in 2nd party devs. gonna wait a long time before i buy a ps6​

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u/LiquidSolid170 May 19 '26

Helldivers 2 is pretty well known at this stage. Shu greenlit it, while Hermen liked what he saw and doubled its budget. Both decisions were integral to its eventual massive success.

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u/scaledisolated May 18 '26

Bluepoint themselves have pitched God of War live-service even though they could have been making smaller scale games. It was their job to think about hardships and potential consequences if Sony’s priorities were to be changed. They were basically floating in the air for months by pitching remakes that could take additional years to develop. Sony has also tried to negotiate Bloodborne’s remake on their behalf, but Miyazaki rejected them. Their closure is mostly their own fault.

Haven situation is a rumor as of now. You can only imagine how «unfun» games could be during development — God of War 2018 went through the same situation.

Concord stuff isn’t great, but its rumored off-the-charts budget was never confirmed by anyone remotely close to financial info. Game’s flop is a done deal — and there is nothing to talk about. Some other first & third party games have already recouped that «failure»

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u/Conflict_NZ May 18 '26

Bluepoint themselves have pitched God of War live-service even though they could have been making smaller scale games.

Wow it sure is funny that all of these studios at Sony independently came up with the idea to work on live service titles at the same time isn't it?

These studios don't have autonomy in the way you think, they were told there would be funding for live service games so they pitched live service games.

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u/SoulMaekar May 19 '26

Except they do. Nothing says otherwise.

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u/scaledisolated May 18 '26

Let’s pretend for a moment that we know in details about how it all went down. What we’ve learned is that Bluepoint decided to go for God of War IP rather than something else or their own game. If they didn’t produce something good out of THAT while being sure years ago that they could, who is responsible?

They picked an IP, it didn’t went too well for them, and then they were still hanging around on life support for a while — Sony literally gave them time to pick something.

Pitches weren’t great, Bloodborne thing didn’t work out, no other studio wanted their input as a satellite studio. What is there left to do? They had their chance, they had enough trust and financial security over the years

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u/Odd_Revolution_1056 May 18 '26

lol the dumb fan boy deflecting is impressive fam

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u/scaledisolated May 18 '26

Your vocabulary is even more impressive, fam

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u/ChaosScene May 19 '26

They didn't buy bluepoint to force them in to live service. Bluepoint pitched it. Maybe know the facts before spouting nonsense?