With three decades spent at Sony, Shuhei Yoshida is a genuine veteran of the games industry, which lends this specific theory a little more credibility. But as he’s quick to specify, this isn’t insider information; it’s just a theory.

It is one of the biggest conundrums in the video game industry: why hasn’t Sony followed up Bloodborne with… anything? A remaster (Sony loves a remaster)? A sequel? A next-gen update? Fans of FromSoftware’s PlayStation 4 masterpiece have begged for more ever since the game launched to critical and commercial acclaim a decade ago.

Bloodborne came out over eight years ago. No FromSoftware game has lived more rent-free in the minds of all the studio’s fans. A sequel to the Sony-published PlayStation 4 exclusive seems like an obvious choice,

Sony has had no problem remastering games for PS5, whether that's Demon's Souls at launch or even The Last of Us: Part II Remastered last year. However, Bloodborne continues to go untouched and still hasn't received a PC port. Former PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida has a theory about why that might be.

Former Sony exec Shuhei Yoshida has offered his insight into why Sony has done anything with the Bloodborne series.

Fans have long called for From and PlayStation to revisit the critically acclaimed action RPG, which was directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki and published by Sony in 2015, in either a PS5 remaster or a PC version. Currently, the game is playable on PS5 via backwards compatibility, but hasn’t even had a patch to improve its performance.

It has been many years since we last heard anything about a new Bloodborne game, despite there clearly being demand for one.