Fan favorite soulslike Bloodborne may never leave console jail. According to Jason Schreier, Bluepoint Games, the studio behind the popular Demon’s Souls and Shadow of the Colossus remakes, pitched a new Bloodborne project before being acquired by Sony.
Speaking in a video with GameSpot, Schreier said that he believes the alleged Bloodborne pitch was for a remaster like the Demon’s Souls remaster Bluepoint Games wound up working on. According to Schreier, all attempts to revive Bloodborne have been shot down by FromSoftware, and Sony has no objections to bringing the game outside of the PlayStation 4. Notably, while FromSoftware led development on Bloodborne, Sony owns the intellectual property, and Schreier speculates the game developer may not be interested in developing someone else’s IP.
Bloodborne was released in 2015 as a PlayStation 4 exclusive and, at the time of writing, has never been released on any other platform. If what Schreier says is true, and FromSoftware has both the veto power to prevent Bloodborne games from being developed and doesn’t want to work on another company’s IP, gamers should be prepared for an even longer wait to see the game on modern devices. Sadly, Bluepoint Games was shuttered this February, so we’ll never have the chance to see what they envisioned for their Bloodborne title.
