Bloodborne Moves Roughly 250,000 Copies This Year, Alinea Estimate Says
Alinea Analytics estimates Bloodborne sold about 250,000 copies since the start of the year, according to Rhys Elliott, the firm's head of market analysis. Elliott puts lifetime sales at 10.4 million and October players at roughly 500,000.
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Why it matters
A game released for PS4 in 2015 and untouched by any sequel, remake, remaster or PC port is still adding sales and drawing players through a subscription catalog, which is the context the anime film adaptation was announced into.
Key Facts
- Alinea Analytics estimates Bloodborne sold roughly 250,000 copies since the start of the year.
- The firm puts cumulative Bloodborne sales at 10.4 million copies.
- Roughly 500,000 people played Bloodborne in October, and 12% of them also played Elden Ring.
- About 5.7 million players have played Bloodborne through the PS Plus Game Catalog.
- Bloodborne was released for PS4 in 2015 and is on sale for PS4.
Of those October players, 12% also played Elden Ring, 6% Dark Souls III and 5% Sekiro. About 5.7 million players have reached the game through the PS Plus Game Catalog.
Rhys Elliott's estimate also covers overlap: the October player base splits into Elden Ring (12%), Dark Souls III (6%) and Sekiro (5%), a crowd that moves between FromSoftware titles. Bloodborne is in the PS Plus Game Catalog, and roughly 5.7 million players have reached it there. On the game side, nothing has followed the 2015 The Old Hunters DLC: no sequel, remake, remaster or PC port has been announced.
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