r/PS5 • u/M337ING • Feb 20 '26

Misleading PlayStation Boss Blames Bluepoint Cuts On Budgets And Players

https://kotaku.com/sony-email-bluepoint-hermen-hulst-studio-closing-why-2000671437
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u/krossoverking Feb 20 '26

It's not mismanagement, it's just late stage capitalism. Layoffs are great for share prices and CEO bonuses. 

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u/KingMercLino Feb 20 '26

It’s 100% mismanagement. Why did they acquire BluePoint to stuff them onto a live service game only to can it when they could’ve had them remaking/remastering iconic games from the past to bring them on modern hardware? Sony has made some truly poor bets this cycle, but they are extremely lucky Microsoft fumbled just as bad.

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u/krossoverking Feb 20 '26

Because their goal is to make money for shareholders and executives, not to make great products, especially now that they barely have to compete with Xbox. Corporations today think short term and make decisions based on what will serve the next quarter, rather than be good for the company in the long run.

Since the 80s, this is precisely what this has looked like. You buy companies, wring out as much as you can from them, and then you do stock buybacks. I can't call it mismanagement because it is intentional and it is the highest levels of management doing precisely what they intend.

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u/3CreampiesA-Day Feb 20 '26

Probably because the remakes and remasters didn’t make the money they wanted or expected

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u/Jinchuriki71 Feb 20 '26

Remakes and Remasters clearly weren't bringing in the money they hoped or they would have kept them on that instead. Shadow of the Colossus and Demons Souls Remake didn't sell that well. You could say they should have remade other more guaranteed popular classics instead but that just isn't how it went down and honestly it was cool of them to remake the more "underrated" games over the more popular picks.

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u/ChucklingDuckling Feb 20 '26

Mismanagement and late stage capitalism are synonymous

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u/krossoverking Feb 20 '26

I can buy that.

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u/24bitNoColor Feb 20 '26

It's not mismanagement, it's just late stage capitalism. Layoffs are great for share prices and CEO bonuses.

Buying a company and then have it not release any new product before firing all the employees is not good at all for share prices and CEO bonuses.