A new report claims that Sony Bend’s next title is a third-person game with online co-op that, thank god, isn’t an inevitably doomed live-service.
As anyone who has spent what feels like a lifetime waiting for Naughty Dog to release something new knows, most of PlayStation’s first-party studios have had a pretty rough generation. Alongside the increased development time and ballooning costs of triple-A games, Sony’s push for live-service has massively impacted many of its teams.
Bluepoint is perhaps the best example of this since it was ultimately shuttered after the cancellation of its God of War live-service game, but Bend Studios is definitely the runner-up. Bend was another studio pushed to make a live-service game that eventually got canned, but it thankfully looks like brighter days are ahead with its next project.
Earlier this week, MP1st shared a report that gives us our first proper details on what Sony Bend is currently up to. According to them, the new game is third-person and features online co-op, but notably doesn’t have any Games as a Service elements to it, unlike the cancelled “Mirror Pond” project that previously leaked....
