It also doesn't make sense at all, if Sony thought it would make money, they own the IP and would probably do it. Everyone acting like it's some huge international conspiracy with Miyazaki trapped in a basement against his will is ridiculous
Hold it back from consumers to release as a system exclusive to sell more of their consoles, refuse any conversation of release on other consoles to ensure this, discussions about remake stall because of this
bluepoint is an external studio that would make the remeastered version but after myiazaki saw how they "butchered" the demon souls remastered he refuses to let them touch his other masterpieces.
i just tried to link a source and my comment was deleted for rule 3. There is about it a post in the demon souls sub. The primary source is a guy called "Nathan the hater" or so. i dont know how trustworthy that is but its accepted by a big part of the community.
The primary source is a guy called "Nathan the hater"
The dude is Nate the Hate (only correcting so if someone wants to search they won't have issues), and he is considered a tier 2 on the gaming leaks subreddit. So, he isn't perfect, but trusting him isn't out of the question.
Significant downgrades in both the visual presentation as well as music. I can't imagine anyone who has played both feeling otherwise unless they have a faulty memory.
I've played both and the original does have better atmosphere in certain section but saying "significant downgrades" is madness. Many sections are better than the original.
Yeah I played the OG Demon Souls back in the day, it had a lot of issues and the graphics weren't it's strongest suit. People are judging the remake of how they think they remember the original game.
Miyazaki has no say in this lmao… sony owns the rights exclusively. Bluepoint pitched it to Sony and Sony refused bc they were pushing bluepoint to work and be focused fully on some garbage live-service game instead.
Your argument is not at all stronger than mine lmao.
Btw yeah such a relationship, thats why Miyazaki did make a new „bloodborne” game just with a different name (as Sony own the IP) and for nintendo 🤣
Sony still owns a piece of From Software, so yeah, I do think their relationship is in a good spot if they let From Software do what they want? It's also a PvPvE game closer to a battle royale than Bloodborne. So it's really not the same thing.
With that bloodborne or darksouls game are all pvpve games lol. Also owning a piece doesnt give right to control and tell what the company can do so you are not even aware how business work lol
I mean, leave it to the internet to yell "Corporate Greed" every time a game is re-released or remastered for a new platform and then somehow yell "Corporate Greed" when a game isn't re-released or remastered lol. And let's not forget that Bloodborne is not stuck on PS4, since it is at least playable on PS5 as well
Sony paid to make this exclusive, if they just let it go to other consoles it would be negligent from a business perspective. They are not a charity. They are probably waiting for PS6, PS6 will take long because of AI, blame AI users I guess?
So, it's more complicated than that. They paid for it to be exclusive and it was. It definitely got people to buy PS4s (I know because I bought one FOR Bloodborne and haven't used it for anything else). But that time has passed. Releasing it on PC would be a second wind and generate a lot of money for Sony. But the issue is that it would signal that you can just wait 10 years for an exclusive to come to PC and that might dissuade people from buying consoles for exclusives if they are patient enough to wait. Personally, I think that patient group is a lot smaller than you would think and wouldn't be a significant impact in future console sales, but that's really just my opinion. So it's not as cut and dry as "it's negligent from a business perspective".
Bloodborne works on PlayStation 5, since they can just play the PlayStation 4 version. So, their options are to release an enhanced PlayStation 5 version, or remake it. Out of the two, remake makes more sense, though that supposedly didn't go through.
Given how much talk there is, Shuhei Yoshida (former SIE president) offered the following theory.
Bloodborne has always been the most asked thing. And people wonder why we haven’t really done anything, even an update or a remaster. Should be easy, right? The company is known for doing so many remasters, right, some people get frustrated.
I have only my personal theory to that situation. I left first-party so I don’t know what’s going on, but my theory is, you know because I remember, you know, Miyazaki-san really, really loved Bloodborne, you know, what he created. So I think he is interested, but he’s so successful and he’s so busy, so he doesn’t want, he cannot do himself, but he does not want anyone else to touch it. So that’s my theory. And the PlayStation team respect his wish. So that’s my guess, right? Theory. I am not revealing any secret information, to be clear. - Yoshida via IGN
And that likely is the long and short of it. Sony is okay with doing it, Miyazaki isn't, Bloodborne is still playable on modern consoles, so they respect his decision.
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u/underfusion 15h ago
Sony greed blocked remaster/remake? No, it was From Software that blocked it!
https://gameinformer.com/2026/02/27/report-bluepoint-pitched-a-bloodborne-remake-but-it-was-rejected-as-fromsoftware-didnt