So you'd rather be accepting of the possibility that Sony might not be reviving Bloodborne than Bandai Namco purchasing the IP and reviving it? I mean that's you sir, if I made a proposition like this one, you'd see all of BB fans be with Bandai Namco at this point, they don't care if Bloodborne is with Sony or not, they just want the game remastered & a sequel of it, me included, but Sony seems to be sitting on it ignoring all the overwhelmingly huge demand by its fans, you just care if Sony owns it or not, and that can be deduced into only sheer fanboyism & nothing else.
Sony doesn't sell their IPs, the most similar they did was to give it to 2nd party studios who developed it or to allow them to port them these games in PC or mobile. But they never did something like to sell one of their IPs to an unrelated 3rd party publisher. In fact, it may be the opposite: Sony may be in talks to acquire From Soft, the whole Kadokawa or even Bandai Namco.
There is absolutely nothing that says Sony isn't interested on making a PS5/PC remeastered/improved port or a sequel when possible. We don't know anything about the current From Software projects or the current Bluepoint projects, or if someone else is working on a PS5 or PC version of Bloodborne. What we know is that From Soft was busy with Elden Ring so couldn't work back then on a Bloodborne sequel.
As I remember, the most recent Bloodborne sales number we saw was around 2 million copies, which isn't a huge sales success or "overwhelmingly huge demand". If something, there are a few loud fanboys due to " sheer fanboyism & nothing else" that aren't representative of the whole market. Elden Ring meant an unprecedented, huge and unexpected jump in sales for the soulsborne formula, meaning that now there has been a big interest on it. Which also means that now Sony will be more interested on soulsborne, so may push harder for something Bloodborne: a remaster, sequel or related acquisition.
Agreed. Bluepoint are great and might make some great new ip but no1 can replace Miyazaki.
I can see Bluepoint helping Xdev ( some former Japan studios staff who worked on Bloodborne/Demon Souls ) and Fromsoft (Miyazaki still directing) with making a Bloodborne 2.
So Miyzaku can work on few different projects at the same time ( like he usually does )
Bluepoint did a great job with Demon's Souls, so could do it with Bloodborne too. Bluepoint also has a ton of staff who did work making original games like the Metroid Prime Trilogy, World of Warcraft, Diablo II and ton of other top tier AAA games so make sure they'll also do a great job with original content.
Miyazaki also codirected many of his games and he's very happy with the work that Bluepoint did with Demon's Souls. They could do a Bloodborne II codeveloped by FromSoft and Bluepoint where FromSoft would codirect and focus maybe on the concept part, with stuff like art direction, world building and character/enemy/boss designs, while Bluepoint could handle the implementation side, tech stuff and hard work of everything.
That relationship and publishing could be managed via their XDEV Japanese team (who now have their own office) as they did with Demon's Souls (both the original and remake) or Bloodborne.