{"id":49956,"date":"2026-11-08T10:34:56","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T09:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/08\/bloodborne-sequel-is-hard-due-to-a-lot-of-rights-associated-with-it-says-former-playstation-exec\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T10:34:56","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T09:34:56","slug":"bloodborne-sequel-is-hard-due-to-a-lot-of-rights-associated-with-it-says-former-playstation-exec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/08\/bloodborne-sequel-is-hard-due-to-a-lot-of-rights-associated-with-it-says-former-playstation-exec\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloodborne Sequel is Hard Due to \u201ca Lot of Rights Associated With it\u201d, Says Former PlayStation Exec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gamingbolt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/bloodborne.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While fans of FromSoftware\u2019s works have been asking for a current-gen remaster of <em>Bloodborne<\/em> or even a sequel for quite some time now, former PlayStation executive Shawn Layden doesn\u2019t believe that it\u2019s likely to happen any time soon. In a recent episode of the Trophy Room podcast, Layden said that there are too many IP rights involved with <em>Bloodborne<\/em>, making a sequel quite difficult.<\/p>\n<p>The IP rights for <em>Bloodborne<\/em> go hand-in-hand with the level of quality that would be expected of a sequel. \u201cCan you do something that is not only respectful of the original, but can you recreate the phenomenon?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of involved rights associated with it,\u201d Layden continued, noting that, along with FromSoftware itself, there is also the involvement of Sony and even Bandai Namco. \u201cAnd something like that where Sony is in there, and [FromSoftware] is in there, and From\u2019s parent company is in there, I think just getting everyone to sign off on everything is probably the biggest challenge there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida had spoken about the challenges of <em>Bloodborne<\/em> getting some kind of follow-up in January last year.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/gamingbolt.com\/bloodborne-sequel-is-hard-due-to-a-lot-of-rights-associated-with-it-says-former-playstation-exec\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While fans of FromSoftware\u2019s works have been asking for a current-gen remaster of Bloodborne or even a sequel for quite some time now, former PlayStation executive Shawn Layden doesn\u2019t believe that it\u2019s likely to happen any time soon. In a recent episode of the Trophy Room podcast, Layden said that there are too many IP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":49957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1600,6965,976,36,108,220,224],"class_list":["post-49956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gaming","tag-bandai-namco","tag-bloodborne","tag-fromsoftware","tag-mixtv","tag-news","tag-ps4","tag-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}