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kitler53 on 20 January 2015
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Burek said:
kitler53 said:

only if you pit exclusive sales against all platform sales.  if you just look at ps3 sales they sell pretty similar.   and if you are seriously going to tell me a game that sold 2 and 3 million units is "niche" i'm just done talking to you now because you just decribed all but like 10 active franchises..

I was only looking at PS3 sales, BL doubles what DS sells. Maybe one of us is looking at something different.

Anyway, I believe that Borderlands is a game that appeals to a wider variety of gamers, while Bloodborne is aimed at a very limited target audience (hence niche). It will not sell well, no matter what gaming forums say, because hardly anybody outside gaming forums will venture to buy it. It simply looks uninviting and unmarketable. 

As for Japan, if PS3 version of DS2 barely managed to sell 350K to date on 10 million consoles, I find it ridiculous to believe Bloodborne can do 250K+ first week on a million consoles (this part not aimed directly at you, but on predictors in this thread). It should be considered a major success if it tops 100K.

here are the sales i see:

demon's souls: 1.77M

dark souls: 1.97M

borderlands: 2.02M

borderlands 2: 2.10M

 

games that came out after the ps4 launched:

dark souls 2: 1.15M

borderlands the presequel: 0.48M

 

franchise totals

souls: 4.89M

borderlands: 4.60M

 

now it is worth noting the presequel came out 5 months after dark souls 2 and more gamers were likely to have moved onto next gen hardware but i don't see how you can make an argument that the souls franchise is niche and borderlands is popular.