PlayStation 4 gamers around the world showed up for the console’s biggest exclusive yet.
Sony has confirmed on its website that Bloodborne, the difficult adventure role-playing game by developer From Software (read our review), has surpassed 1 million copies sold worldwide. It reached that figure on April 5, which was just 12 days after its March 24 release date in North America. The publisher included both physical discs and digital sales in its sales figures. This makes Bloodborne one of the fastest-selling PlayStation 4 games. It also sold faster than From Software’s previous release Dark Souls II, which took about three weeks to reach 1 million copies sold. This is more evidence of the popularity of these kinds of experiences as well as the thirst for original games on the PlayStation 4.
Bloodborne is a big win for Sony. The company invested heavily in the game to ensure it was exclusive for the PS4. It worked with From Software to co-develop the release and publish it around the world. This will likely keep Bloodborne off of competing platforms like PC or Xbox One; Dark Souls is a multiplatform series. Bloodborne’s success is especially important because PS4 was starting to establish an unwanted reputation as a console without many great exclusives, but it can now claim one of this generation’s most popular games as its own.
“Bloodborne was a new challenger for us,” Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida said in a statement (translated by Gematsu). “And our goal was to create a title that took full advantage of the power of PS4. I am thrilled that so many gamers have been enjoying the extremely rich and detailed world, beautiful melancholic atmosphere, and palpable tension of Bloodborne.”