The company known for classic remakes of PlayStation titles will now be creating original games for Sony.
“It finally gives us the ability to work on original content, which is what we’re actually currently doing,” Blueprint President Marco Thrush told the Washington Post. “There’s no other party we would want to partner with. It’s kind of like Sony is, has and always will be the perfect partner.”
Sony closed the deal with the Texas-based company that is home to about 70 employees for an undisclosed fee. Bluepoint enters into the deal having already been creating games for the PlayStation platform for the last 15 years. The deal continues a trend of Sony acquiring entities that have worked almost exclusively with the company.
Among the games created by Bluepoint is “Demon’s Souls,” a launch game for the PlayStation 5, which Sony says has sold 1.4 million copies since its release roughly 10 months ago. Before then, the company was recognized for its remake of the PlayStation 2 classic “Shadow of the Colossus."
PlayStation Studios head Hermen Hulst said that closing the deal was a no-brainer.
“We deeply understand what motivates the team, their capabilities and the cultural fit between the teams,” he said. “There’s no risk that we’re not going to be aligned on what the team is good at, what the team wants to make and what we expect from the team. Technology is pretty close to Bluepoint’s heart, it really defines how they operate in the game development world."