42+ million confirmed. Every PS4 owner has purchased 2 copies.
except me. I only bought one.
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BloodBorne Sales Expectations : What are yours? What Could Sony's be ?
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42+ million confirmed. Every PS4 owner has purchased 2 copies.
except me. I only bought one.
Bam Bam Baklava
Member
So the game is dominating reviews, dominating sales rankings, and selling out of stores...and yet people underestimate the sales.
You're not wrong. Front page of Eurogamer right now. There are another handful of Bloodborne articles just below these ones too.
There are also seven seperate Bloodborne threads on the first page of GAF right now, with more if you go searching. All positive ones. Not many games get this reaction.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
I remember Demon's Souls literally coming out of nowhere and catching everyone by surprise. And then Dark Souls happened. And then Dark Souls 2 happened.
I don't really get why people have low expectations for this game. If this really sold worse than The Order then something went terribly wrong.
Except Souls games have a track record of sales success. And Bloodborne isn't a 3rd party game on a dead Nintendo platform (a sequel to a game that wasn't there to begin with).
I don't really get why people have low expectations for this game. If this really sold worse than The Order then something went terribly wrong.
I hope it does well.
Except Souls games have a track record of sales success. And Bloodborne isn't a 3rd party game on a dead Nintendo platform (a sequel to a game that wasn't there to begin with).
RealityPales
Member
Not that this is any indication of sales, but Bloodborne has 38.2K likes on PSN as of just over 4 days being available.
For comparisons sake, Battlefield Hardline is sitting at 28.1K and Borderlands Handsome Collection at 8.2K. Interesting seeing the rate at which Bloodborne is rising. And fast.
For comparisons sake, Battlefield Hardline is sitting at 28.1K and Borderlands Handsome Collection at 8.2K. Interesting seeing the rate at which Bloodborne is rising. And fast.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
If it outsells Dark Souls 2 that would be very impressive.
Manmademan
Member
DS2 Had VERY poor word of mouth due to the downgrade, so this is possible.
FWIW despite that, I like the game.
spatenfloot
Member
Well you can only like a game in the PSN store if you bought it, I think.
SolidSnakex
Member
Starting to knock down the PSN cards again
Most likely.... when commercials are sent to TV houses, they are often packed into timed deals. For example rotate Bloodborne commercials #1-#3 in these thous for next two weeks. When new commercial needs to be introduced, new contract needs to be signed.
IMO, the ups and downs of Bloodbrne sales on hourly charts are mostly connected to the time of day in US. We can expect next ~6-7 hours for sales to be good, and then to drop off a bit when majority of US go to sleep. Cards will remain strong because international crowd want them for purchases on cheaper US PSN.
It was a face pic from a game that met all of Incredulous Jackie Chan's criteria and still bombed, for the sake of humor.
StrongBlackVine
Banned
Now I am excited. This game deserves to be a big success.
fvng
Member
"Collectors"
I hope it sells enough to justify more collaboration titles. Aside from certain problems, this game seems like it was made with the same creative control and people that made all the Soul games.(Aside from DS2)
Though i do think that they should keep mixing up the formula a little, or at least keep adding new features like the Chalice dungeon.
Though i do think that they should keep mixing up the formula a little, or at least keep adding new features like the Chalice dungeon.
StrongBlackVine
Banned
I have over 40 people out of about 200 on my friends list playing Bloodborne. Most of them are not Gaf. It has to be doing great sales.
I hope it does well.
I'm still waiting on this to "platinum". Would have thought it would by now, but platinum games have taught me to wait for the platinum effect..
postcyberpunk
Banned
Hentai: Collectors Edition is back in stock at Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NOBX1OO/?tag=neogaf0e-20
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NOBX1OO/?tag=neogaf0e-20
TheWorthyEdge
Member
Yep. Its gone everywhere. Good on Sony and From.
autoduelist
Member
I'm in awe of all this. Like, nearly tears of joy thinking about it.
I remember playing Demon's Souls day 1, and yes, there was a little bit of hype from people who had imported it (which is why I had it preordered), but even so it exceeded my expectations by leaps and bounds... but I never, ever thought it would successful and lead to multiple spiritual successors, etc.
And then when PS4 was announced, I remember hoping beyond hope that we'd get some sort of Demon's Souls 2... and we eventually did, in the form of Bloodborne. And now it's getting amazing reviews and chewing up the charts.
So good. So good for gaming, so good for the future of the genre and the franchise, so good.
Thank you From + Sony. If you guys can give me my GOTG two gens in a row, I don't even know what else to say.
I remember playing Demon's Souls day 1, and yes, there was a little bit of hype from people who had imported it (which is why I had it preordered), but even so it exceeded my expectations by leaps and bounds... but I never, ever thought it would successful and lead to multiple spiritual successors, etc.
And then when PS4 was announced, I remember hoping beyond hope that we'd get some sort of Demon's Souls 2... and we eventually did, in the form of Bloodborne. And now it's getting amazing reviews and chewing up the charts.
So good. So good for gaming, so good for the future of the genre and the franchise, so good.
Thank you From + Sony. If you guys can give me my GOTG two gens in a row, I don't even know what else to say.
Stop assuming what I or other people want. I find The Order to be boring but that has more to do with the topic/story it chose to tell than anything else about the game. Moreover, there are rooms for different types of game. But God forbid there are games that don't cater to your taste, right?
fvng
Member
I'm assuming you mean NA not just US.
In any event I hope they belatedly release the nightmare edition because I would double dip
bigace33
Member
42+ million confirmed. Every PS4 owner has purchased 2 copies.
except me. I only bought one.
This may be truer than you think. I was in a customers home yesterday, and they had 5 PS4's and I saw at least 2 screens with Bloodborne on standby. It was a College dorm.
Craazyville
Neo Member
Not sure but I am glad I contributed as the hour I have had the chance to play was great!
Damn you life for getting in the way of my gaming habits!
Damn you life for getting in the way of my gaming habits!
semiconscious
Member
it was that 'little bit of hype' that convinced atlus to bring it here, so it couldn't've been all that little
...BreezyLimbo
Banned
oh shit, they had ads during that? Goddamn talk about targeting the right audience. Looking at the Commercial on youtube, it has 6 million views which is alot.
Man, I hope this game does well. In the sea of Battlefields, Call of Dutys, what have you, the Souls/Blood series are such a breath of fresh air.
pharmboy044
Member
See, this is one of those games where just watching it won't satisfy you like say a story based game. I'm guessing a lot of people are picking up that Bloodborne bundle off of Amazon due to the streams.
Yet, I'm still not getting sucked into the sales hype. I'm guessing it will do around 250K for its first month on the NPD's.
I hope it does well.
Unlike the majority of Platinum's titles, the souls series actually do sell.
Unlike Nintendo who basically did shit all to promote Bayo 2, Sony actually did a great job advertising Bloodborne.
Well, more anecdotes - my friend is the personification of a casual gamer, never touched either Demon Souls or Dark Souls, and picked up Bloodborne day 1 (as did I).
My friends list has quite a few people playing Bloodborne, and I believe this title is going to do very well in sales.
My friends list has quite a few people playing Bloodborne, and I believe this title is going to do very well in sales.
It's a shame that Platinum don't seem to have/want a relationship with Sony. While it's great that if it wasn't for Nintendo, we wouldn't have got W101 and Bayo2. But then they failed to market either game at all. Don't recall Madworld getting any publicity either.
And last gen, Platinum went with Xbox for Bayo1, even though the platform was dead in their home nation. The shitty, late PS3 port outsold it in Japan significantly. And now they're doing the same with Scalebound.
The PS4 seems like the best fit for their games, yet it's their last choice platform.
Completely wrong. Bosses are incredibly hard and there has been no downgrade. The game is fantastic.
lol the bosses are hard as hell.
There's nothing approaching O&S, but the bosses on average are probably the hardest in the series.
It definitely did. I've been aware of the souls games since Demons souls, was never interested despite the good word of mouth and reviews they got. Just didn't appeal to me. It seems the "next-gen" sheen and quicker pace of combat did the trick.
And I'm not part of the group that is "thirsty for games on the ps4." In fact I feel I have too many games to play and this game is probably gonna take me a month to beat so it's not gonnna help with that backlog.
Currently at the first boss, tried 4 times already before leaving for work, got my ass kicked. Molotoving the crap out of it. Wish there was a way to buy oil, asthe two times I had the opportunity to use it, it seemingly did a lot more damage than just plain old molotovs.
Coulomb_Barrier
Member
Still sitting at No.1 on the UK Amazon charts.
Up to 2wo on amazon us and rising.