Bloodborne remake and much more rejected by FromSoftware according to indie dev

Despite owning Bloodborne, Sony seems determined not to touch it unless it gets approval from FromSoftware president Hidetaka Miyazaki.

Sony’s purchase of Bluepoint Games has been nothing short of disastrous. Despite the studio being responsible for many acclaimed remasters and remakes, Sony instead moved it onto a God Of War live service game before scrapping the project last year.

Rather than return to what it does best (many suspected it would be responsible for the newly announced God Of War remakes), Sony instead shuttered the studio, meaning it spent its entire time as a PlayStation subsidiary without releasing a single game.

As if things couldn’t be even more tragic, it turns out Bluepoint offered to do what fans have long been calling for and remake Bloodborne, only for it to be turned down.

This is according to Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, who spoke with people familiar with the matter. Apparently, Bluepoint pitched a Bloodborne remake early last year and it sounds like Sony was interested, but original developer FromSoftware was not.

That’s rather surprising when Hidetaka Miyazaki, FromSoftware’s president and Bloodborne’s director, has previously suggested he was open to the idea of a remake or PC port.

What’s more, this allegedly isn’t the first time this has happened. In response to the report, Brandon Sheffield, director of indie studio Necrosoft Games, claimed that multiple other studios, including his own, have pitched Bloodborne related projects.

‘I could find you 10 companies that have pitched a Bloodborne sequel, spin-off, or remake, including my own,’ wrote Sheffield on Bluesky, ‘It’s just not going to happen unless FromSoft decides they want to do it.’

I could find you 10 companies that have pitched a bloodborne sequel, spinoff, or remake, including my own. It’s just not going to happen unless fromsoft decides they want to do it.

— Brandon Sheffield (@brandon.insertcredit.com) 2026-02-27T21:15:01.573Z

Sony itself owns the Bloodborne IP so it’s technically free to do what it wants with it, but it seems the company is unwilling to touch it without FromSoftware’s say-so, no doubt to maintain a good working relationship.

This would line-up with a theory former PlayStation president Shuhei Yoshida shared last year during a Kinda Funny interview: ‘Miyazaki-san really really loved Bloodborne… So I think he is interested but he’s so successful and so busy so he can not do it himself but he doesn’t want anyone else to touch it… and the PlayStation team respects his wish.’

It’s a shame as any update to Bloodborne would earn Sony some easy brownie points from fans. Although a remake doesn’t even seem necessary, since the game is a PlayStation 4 title. A simple remaster and/or PC port would be fine but Bloodborne hasn’t had so much as a PlayStation 5 patch.

There was even an unofficial fan made 60 frames per second patch, but Sony had it taken down last year. This sparked theories that an official remaster or patch was on the way, but it wasn’t.

With the Bloodborne remake off the table, Bluepoint pitched two other ideas: a PlayStation 5 update of its Shadow Of The Colossus remake and a Ghost Of Tsushima spin-off.

These ideas seem surprisingly unambitious, especially as the team had previously said it was done with remasters and remakes and wanted to make an original title.

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