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BloodBorne Sales Expectations : What are yours? What Could Sony's be ?
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bananafactory
Banned
Also, Sony has been pushing this game hard.
Been seeing commercials on AMC for weeks during Saul and TWD and again tonight.
Been seeing commercials on AMC for weeks during Saul and TWD and again tonight.
Nightengale
Member
Unless Lost Song bombed compared to its predecessor, Bloodborne below SAO seems realistic.
Chaos2Frozen
Member
Plus the gap between PS3 and PS4 in Japan is still very large from what I'm understanding.
I have only seen one Bloodborne commercial on youtube. Interested if there are different types or only the one with the crow?
Kudo
Member
What day usually the sales threads come up? Really interested to see how Bloodborne has performed.
PS3 and PSV both have bigger install-base and SAO and OP are very big franchises so I'm actually surprised it sold more than the PS3 version of SAO and PSV version of Pirate Warriors 3
PS3 and PSV both have bigger install-base and SAO and OP are very big franchises so I'm actually surprised it sold more than the PS3 version of SAO and PSV version of Pirate Warriors 3
Some UK sales for last week should be up today, Media Create will be in by midweek, NPD for US [sales up to April 4] will be out by middle of April. Best chance of seeing the complete picture of worldwide sales is press release by Sony or From, but nobody can guarantee that they will release such thing.
edit - Wow, BB is again #2 on US Amazon, and PS4 is #4 [Xbone #25]. I would presume the flow of sales is much slower now that US is sleeping.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
UK
Bloodborne > 42k
DkS2 < 43k
Bloodborne at the very least sold the same amount as DkS2 on all platforms.
Bloodborne > 42k
DkS2 < 43k
Bloodborne at the very least sold the same amount as DkS2 on all platforms.
Deadstarone
Member
There were shortages for Bloodborne in Japan for sure.
https://twitter.com/yosp/status/581703274945851393
Guessing they maxed out stock and that happened to be below SAO and One Piece.
https://twitter.com/yosp/status/581703274945851393
Guessing they maxed out stock and that happened to be below SAO and One Piece.
So this means first NPD of Bloodborne in USA should be about equal to the first NPD of Dark Souls 2 in USA?
so 300k is a good guess??
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
Anecdotal evidence time. Stopped at Best Buy yesterday so my brother could use my 20% off Gamers Club discount to get this, but they were completely sold out. They had a couple in the back that were being held for online orders, but that was it. When I was picking mine up on Tuesday there was a pretty huge amount on the shelves, so seemed crazy to me.
One of the ones being held was a collectors edition. Worker said they had a couple more days to come pick it up then it would go out on the shelf. Might pop back in there later and see if I can get my hands on a CE.
One of the ones being held was a collectors edition. Worker said they had a couple more days to come pick it up then it would go out on the shelf. Might pop back in there later and see if I can get my hands on a CE.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
DkS 2 <375k on NPD iirc
This is pretty great to hear
I think a good number of people are significantly overestimating the sales potential with all this talk of multi-million units, but if it can match or get close to DS2 in one platform, it will be a fantastic success.
This is pretty great to hear
I think a good number of people are significantly overestimating the sales potential with all this talk of multi-million units, but if it can match or get close to DS2 in one platform, it will be a fantastic success.
I wouldn't say 2 million ww total lifetime is an overestimation. I guess we will wait and see.
The Shogun
Banned
Hopefully this will help bring some of the expectations down to reality.
BB is doing great for its genre on a single platform. Its unfair to put crazy unrealistic expectations on it.
Flyinmunky
Member
Im from UK and went digital but my mates have been trying to pick it up this week and every place is sold out, GAME, Tesco etc..
Im quite surprised as didnt think it was a game everyone would want.
Its awesome though.
Im quite surprised as didnt think it was a game everyone would want.
Its awesome though.
It just seems weird.
Basically somehow people's expectations went from somewhat realistic ("hey, maybe it can do numbers somewhat near the multiplatform game that came before") to some crazy 3 million+ projections by waaay too many people.
Hopefully that can be tempered by the time we had some actual numbers. I hate hearing about how "disappointing" sales are when people built up some crazy expectations based on little to no evidence.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
I think the range was
42k<Bloodborne<57k and 38k<DkS2<42k
At the very most, Bloodborne did 1.5 times DkS2 and if the upper bound pf DkS 2 was 375k than assuming US is like the UK at most Bloodborne did 562.5k.
Netherscourge
Banned
Vita games sure sell strong in Japan.
The Shogun
Banned
That is extremely optimistic for US sales.
Regarding the 500k number.
Wait if we are talking Lifetime sales totally different story. I think I misread that
solokazama
Banned
2-3 mil (max 4) till Q4 2015
Curious:
Hardline's price dropped hard and fast on best buy and amazon -- did it drop elsewhere as well? Is it more of a case of simply too much stock, despite still having rather strong sales?
The Shogun
Banned
Well as I said I don't give out numbers. I respect my employer and also the company's that make these games. I try my best to avoid anything too detailed as I want to help healthy discussion but not hurt or overstep my bounds.
Not sure whats going on with Best Buy or Amazon as I have no information on their business. I will say however from MY perspective Hardline certainly had solid sales. I know EA said they are expecting 1/3rd of BF4 sales from Hardline. What was BF4s first NPD? Can't remember off the top of my head
SolidSnakex
Member
So here's the accolades commercial that people have been wanting them to do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXD7Jua5bXM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXD7Jua5bXM
Nightengale
Member
Sony didn't announce 1 million for TLOU as well, even though it achieved.
XxRampage07xX
Member
Nicely done, Sony!
Chaos2Frozen
Member
One question, do they include digital for these kinds of announcements? Cause I didn't contribute to physical numbers lol.
Sony counts them in their PR announcements, and they specifically mention retail+digital.
Can you point me to where this was said please? As far as I remember I hadnt heard EA say anything about anticipating a series sales decline. In fact, the only statement I could find from EA was the exact opposite
Source
So on the contrary it seems they did not anticipate it selling less and in fact were counting on its sales to carry their earnings.
Nightengale
Member
Every official announcement, yes.
In the case of TLOU though, it was only mentioned as a footnote at the conference where Shu said every retail first party game has sold more than a million copies.
KNACK2 CONFIRMED! /s
Metalingus5150
Member
Pewdiepie is playing Bloodborne, I wonder if that will have an effect on sales.
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Primethius
Banned
Oh #15 for the year, that's pretty impressive.
I think it'll do around 400k at the high end. The positive reception has helped the game for sure but I don't know... it's still a Souls game on one platform.
I think it'll do around 400k at the high end. The positive reception has helped the game for sure but I don't know... it's still a Souls game on one platform.
ethomaz
Banned
I was really close... 1m was reached just 5 days after first month ends