Rights Are the Hurdle for a Bloodborne Return, Former PlayStation Boss Says

Bloodborne has no sequel and no remaster, and according to former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden, the main obstacle is rights. Layden made the point in an interview with The Trophy Room podcast, as Eurogamer reported on 6 November 2026.

Layden said Bloodborne has "a lot of involved rights associated with it." Those rights involve three parties: Sony, the developer FromSoftware, and FromSoftware's parent company. In his view, getting all three to sign off on the same plan is probably the biggest challenge to any return for the game.

Layden also spoke warmly about the studio. He described working with FromSoftware on Bloodborne and on the original Demon's Souls as "fantastic." Demon's Souls is an earlier game from the same developer, and Bloodborne is widely known as a spiritual follow-up to it.

The game is still on the PlayStation 4. Players on the PlayStation 5 can also run it through backward compatibility, the feature that lets a newer console play many titles from the one before. So the game is available, even without a new version.

Shuhei Yoshida, another former PlayStation executive, has offered a different explanation for the silence. He has theorised that director Hidetaka Miyazaki loves Bloodborne and would like to handle it himself. Miyazaki is too busy to do so, Yoshida has suggested, and does not want anyone else to touch it.

Neither view comes with a date or an announcement. For fans who want more of the world, the picture is a shared one. Layden's account puts the hardest part in paperwork and agreement between companies, not in the game itself.