Bloodborne | Phwoar cop that red stuffīloodborne loves wasting your time with a two-minute trek back to more pain, whereas Elden Ring gives you so many checkpoints and tools that you can bash your head against a brick wall more efficiently than ever. Elden Ring and Bloodborne feel like two very different games and while they each have that distinct FromSoftware DNA throughout, jumping between both games gave me whiplash because of how different they are, especially in terms of approachability. Despite how much Bloodborne is my jam on paper, I’d never really given it the time it needed, but with The Lands Between now on fire after I accidentally got fingered in some basement, I figured now was the perfect time to jump back in.Īlmost immediately, I was reminded that people who think all of From’s action RPGs are the same have probably only ever taken a surface level look at a couple of them. It also helps that enemies explode into fountains of the red stuff when you even just graze them. The dark and grimy aesthetic is maybe the most arresting I’ve ever seen in a game, and the fact that violence is the answer to most of its combat puzzles makes it one of the fastest, most aggressive Souls-likes out there. I’ve picked up Bloodborne on and off a lot over the years, though only ever got as far as beating Father Gascoigne. I was sad to roll credits, but it did compel me to finally return to Bloodborne - and immediately want a remaster. From getting spat on by giant lobsters to getting shat on by a hilariously unbalanced one-armed woman with bad skin, it’s completely consumed my thoughts in recent times. We don’t know specific sales for Bloodborne at retail in the US, but it did cross 1 million worldwide after launch.Īs NPD analyst Liam Callahan added about Bloodborne, “The launch of Bloodborne ranked as second overall in software sales this month, but also has the second highest sales for the debut month of a first-party game on the PS4, after inFamous: Second Son, in March 2014.Like a whole bunch of masochists, the last couple months of my gaming life have been dominated by FromSoftware’s Elden Ring, their most ambitious and arguably best game to date. Looking closer at software, Battlefield Hardline won the month and sold best on Xbox One, while PS4-exclusive Bloodborne managed to place in second, despite only being on sale for about a week and a half (the NPD’s March report tracked sales until April 4). For a breakdown, hardware was at $311.1 million (down 21%), software was at $395.4 million (down 3%), and accessories were at $257.2 million (up 15%). PS4 remains the cumulative sales leader both globally and in the United States and we want to thank gamers worldwide for their ongoing support.ĭespite the many releases last month, the retail industry was down in March, dropping 6% to $963.7 million when compared to March 2014. 1 in software sales again according to NPD sales data for March 2015. We are truly honored PlayStation 4 is the top-selling console and No. Here’s what Sony had to say about the win via statement we received:
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