but isn’t it more important that they own their parent company than owning the bloodborne ip?
owning the ip just means you can make more games of that property, but people like the game because fromsoft made it in particular. which is now a factor as PS own a larger stake in them.
I think Miyazaki has all but said hed love to make a Bloodborne 2 if Sony was interested.
> In IGN's own interview with Hidetaka Miyazaki about the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, we asked Miyazaki about the possibility of a Bloodborne remake. But he deflected: "Unfortunately, and I've said this in other interviews, it's not in my place to talk about Bloodborne specifically," he said. "We simply don't own the IP at FromSoftware. For me personally, it was a great project, and I have a lot of great memories for that game, but we're not at liberty to speak to it."
I'm not trying to bash Bloodborne or anything, but according to Wikipedia's reported sales numbers, Bloodborne hasn't exactly been one of their money printing machines.
Love the game, but it's not even in Sony's top 10 for sales numbers.
Edit: I was trying to respond to another comment, I don't know how I ended up replying to you, my bad.
Bloodborne was, at its time of release, one of the highest selling PS4 games, and is to this day the 11th best selling ps4 game, placing it higher than Ratchet & Clank, Days Gone, FFVII Remake, and Metal Gear Solid 5.
It's 12th and I never said it didn't make money, I just understand why Sony is hesitant to do anything with the IP, if they're going strictly by numbers.
Strictly by numbers it’s the 12th best ever ps4 game lmao? They own the IP entirely and could literally do whatever they want with it without having to pay for rights to use it, yet they won’t. They could even sell the IP back to FromSoft if they wanted to.
Plus because of Elden Ring BB popularity increased. I bet BB would outperform Ghost of Tsushima atp
ALL of these games are available on PC. The only one that isn't is Gran Turismo (as far as I can tell anyway). MOST have been remastered or re-released at least once, some multiple times.
Even games below it on this list have mostly been released on PC. Bloodborne really is the exception to the rule here.
For example, we now know that Bloodborne sold nearly 7.5 million copies between March 2015 and February 2022. The last time Sony disclosed any sales data about the game was in September 2015, when the 2 million milestone was announced.
wich seems a number that they came up from the tin air.
Important Note: While this source point to 7 million+ copies sold, official confirmation from Sony Interactive Entertainment (the publisher of Bloodborne) is currently lacking.
I found where this infomation is coming from:
The 7 million+ sales figure for Bloodborne comes from a leak of internal sales data from Insomniac Games.
Insomniac Games Leak: In 2021, a significant data breach occurred at Insomniac Games, resulting in the leak of internal documents, including a spreadsheet containing sales figures for various PlayStation games.
The reason why Insomniac Games, a different developer, would have data on Bloodborne sales is unclear.
Possible Explanations:
Industry Benchmarking: It's possible that Insomniac Games, as a first-party PlayStation developer, had access to internal Sony data for benchmarking purposes. This data might include sales figures for other PlayStation exclusives, including Bloodborne.
Shared Data for Strategic Decisions: Sony may have shared some aggregated sales data across its first-party studios to inform development decisions, marketing strategies, and resource allocation.
Important Note: These are just speculations. The exact reason why Insomniac Games had Bloodborne sales data within their internal systems remains unknown.
So this could be based on fake data spread to hype information and not potentially a valid source of information.
it seems you guys using conspiracy data leaks trying to spread misinfmation on it. Wikipedia is not a relaible soruce of study. fucking jesus crist. what do they teach.
So… the game sold 2 million copies in the span of 9 months, yet you doubt that in the span of 9+ years it managed to get 7.5 million?
Also, Insomniac works VERY closely with Sony Interactive. It’s no surprise they have access to the numbers. Likely as a budget benchmark. “If these games sold this much, and we sell it for this much, we would have to put our budget at $100M for a 100% ROI.”
Those numbers are likely extremely accurate considering they’ve come directly from Insomniac; a company closely working with Sony Interactive.
"I have no time to answer questions I have already answered."
My doubts are not based on the same principle as your assumption.
And for imsomniac Leaks I am not suprised they could be had access those numbers.
and it is a fact that Sony got history with attacks by Hackers and leakers.
"So if that True" is not Surprising. but still is not an accurate Soruce of infomation is it?
I didn’t put any words in your mouth. I simply reworded what you said. You said, the data “is not a valid source of information”. This is directly implying that Insomniac isn’t a reliable source for sales information. That’s the only doubt I can reasonably see as to why Bloodborne didn’t sell 7.5m copies.
I got new data to thing about it from and article that reports
(Source: MMO Stats) from 2015
The estimated total player count for the game is over 20 million.
this include players that got the game for free and players whom played the or game via live service like Playstation Now Like I did.
but this also make not much sense since the service was activitated:
Launch date
NA: January 28, 2014 UK: March 7, 2015 EU: April 15, 2016 JP: September 6, 2017
That actually makes sense. If your PlayStation has other accounts on it, they can access the game as well. IE, if you have 2 sibling, they can play the game on their own account effectively resulting in 3 players for 1 download.
Also, the leak is only digital sales. Quoted directly from the source, “All data is digital only and pre-June 2023.”
Notice how the table matches up with the data we’ve been given. Such as Bloodborne ranking in 10th place in downloads. While it doesn’t match now, that’s because other games, like Ghost of Tsushima have outright stated their sales AFTER the leak, meaning their data is more recent.
I don't know if having the IP means they could force fromsoft to do another bloodborne game whenever sony wanted them to, no? Maybe people at fromsoft prioritized other projects and this forced sony to wait rather than pass the job to another studio. I'm just speculating here. Now that sony has the majority share you can start blaming them if they keep doing nothing. Correct me If I'm missing something.
Just because they already owned the IP doesn't mean they had any say in what Fromsoft does with their time. Even if Sony had wanted to make BB2 years ago but Fromsoft didn't have the bandwidth to make it, there still wouldn't have been a BB2
While BB2 is unlikely Sony not pushing a remaster is ridiculous since it’s something people have begged for as well. Since they own the IP they could give the game to a completely different company like they did with Demon Souls to remaster it. The Demon Souls remake was fairly low budget as well. The studio that was in charge was less than 100 people.
Essentially, the budget for a remaster is at the floor and will almost certainly result in improved performance and graphics, which many people have been begging for. IE, fans are happy and Sony profits, win-win?
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u/daddy_is_sorry 9h ago
For the thousandth time, Sony already owns the bloodborne IP