FromSoftware Declined Collaboration with Sony for a Demon's Souls Sequel and Found Another Publisher
Former President of PlayStation Studios (formerly known as SIE Worldwide Studios) Shuhei Yoshida revealed that FromSoftware turned down a collaboration with Sony to develop a sequel to Demon's Souls, which eventually evolved into another project — Dark Souls.
The original game was released in 2009, with Sony as the publisher. However, Sony refused to localize the game for North America and Europe. Because of this, FromSoftware found other partners for this task, namely Atlus (USA) and Bandai Namco (Europe).
Regarding the sequel to Demon's Souls, Sony was interested in the game, but due to the company's reluctance to localize the first installment for regions outside Japan, FromSoftware decided to partner with Bandai Namco.
From Software was already working on the sequel to Demon's Souls, but they were so disappointed with how PlayStation treated them, we wanted to work with them again but they passed on it.
Despite this, FromSoftware and Sony later resumed close collaboration. Notably, in 2015, they released the PlayStation-exclusive Bloodborne.
As a reminder, Shuhei Yoshida also recently speculated on when it would be reasonable to release the PS6 console.
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