| tokilamockingbrd said: I am completely shocked to see BB in the top 5, 10 days after release. I had always figured it would be front heavy due to its dedicated fanbase getting I ASAP and its less than mass market appeal. |
that only proves even more that the game isnt as niche as people want to pretend it is
For example Demons Souls which didnt have any marketing or hype behind it (sold 1.77m), and it outsold Infamous 2 (which sold 1.76m) ( yes by 1k but still outsold it), and we dont see people saying Infamous is niche...
The most popular niche series that i can think of are Persona, The Xeno series, and The Tales of games and the best selling games of those series are
Persona 4 Golden (0.89m) which is a remastered version of Persona 4 which sold 0.82m, so totale sales if we combined both versions are 1.71m
Xenosaga 1 (1.74m which is rare for this series since most of them sold less than a million)
Tales of Xillia (1.19m)
And Demons Souls (which sold 1.77m) outsold each one of those games even the combined versions of Persona 4, and unlike those games DeS wasnt a part of a popular series and didnt have any sort of fanbase behind it, not to mention it didnt have any marketing or hype behind it.
now about Dark Souls... well that game sold about 3 million so of course it outsold pretty much everything that i listed (including all the Infamous Games), im just not using it for comparison since its a multiplat game, and all the games i listed are exclusives so it only makes sense to compare them to exclusives, and Demons Souls is the only souls game (aside from Bloodborne) that is exclusive and we have its life time sales.
So if Demons Souls sold like that with no marketing and hype behind it and while being a new IP... then i expect Bloodborne to sell MUCH more, considering that unlike DeS:
1) Bloodborne did have a lot of marketing behind it
2) it had hype behind it
3) its part of an already known series, which has grown with every installment.
Bloodborne sales will surprise everyone that thinks its a niche game, i think sales will be so good that its almost guaranteed that this will not be the last time we see a colaboration between Sony and From Software.
