"We all know what the problem is: It’s mismanaged expectations, mismanaged budgets, and the absolute fantasy of year-over-year🐬 growth in perpetuity."

It's shareholders. Shareholders who don't care about the art. Shareholders who don't care about the employees. Shareholders﷽ who only care abo𓄧ut getting a bigger dividend than last quarter.

It'll depend entirely if the online requirement is forced. I mean, it's pretty silly to have an online-only game on a portable console that may or may not have internet access. And if online multiplayer is forced it's gonna upset everyone who plays single player onlꦉy.

From their press release: "Developed for the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2; 'THE DUSKBꦜLOODS' is a PvPvE title with online multiplayer at its cꩵore, where up to 8 players vie for supremacy among themselves and against challenging foes." They're already saying it's gonna be different. Bloodborne is co-op multiplayer. This is going to be PvP while also being PvE. It's not co-op multiplayer.

"If done correctly" means what they've done before, which i🌱s a primarily single player game with some optional co-op multiplayer. Nothing released♉ so far suggests this is the direction they're going.