With success of Helldivers Sony can't let Arrowhead remain independent |UP| Rumor of acquisition is unsubstantiated as per Arrowhead. 10 mil sales?

[Kokoloko]

What? Dude Arrowhead made the game. It’s their art, game design and their blood and sweat that created it. Sony didn’t come up with the concept and find arrowhead to make it. Sony helped fund it and give it a platform.

A bloodborne 2 without From Software or a Helldivers 3 without Arrowhead would effectively be fan fiction tier sequels.

Agree 100%

I say this while preferring Santa Monica God of War way way more than the previous saga. In fact, I didn’t care for those at all… and as a Greek I still prefer Balrog’s games. But Santa Monica is sorta an outlier.

Santa Monica made all the God of Wars. The people who worked on God of War 1 worked on the sequels. Balrog came up with the character, its pretty easy for someone else to come and write for Kratos and the story after that. A bit like comics.

A Bloodborne sequel, has to be done by Miyazaki, like a MGS story and Kojima