Update: Perhaps unsurprisingly, Sony has removed the Bloodborne tweet. We did take a screenshot before it was taken down, however. You can find that in the original article below.
Original Story: Sony, what are you doing? Why would you ever make a weird tweet about Bloodborne if you don't have anything to announce? Surely you know that fans have been practically begging for a remake or a remaster or anything for years now?
It's true, though — Sony (not PlayStation) has just tweeted about Bloodborne. The company's official account puts a tweet like this out every week or so, asking fans to identify a specific PlayStation game. And as you'd expect, this particular example has immediately resulted in social media chaos. The replies are already stuffed with people thinking this is some kind of tease, while others have reacted as badly as you'd imagine.
The funny thing is, this is probably the most attention Sony has given Bloodborne in years. We've heard nary a peep regarding the beloved PS4 action RPG in what feels like an age. This tweet is either incredibly tone deaf, or some social media manager is having a laugh. Honestly, fair play if it's the latter.
If anything, this just reinforces the fact that a Bloodborne...something is in incredibly high demand. We still think it's mental that Sony's yet to capitalise on the PS4 exclusive, especially when it's seemingly more than happy to re-release, or even outright remake, other last-gen titles on PS5.
[source twitter.com]
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They also did this with the Game Covers of Ghost of Tsushima and Horizon a few weeks ago. It doesnt mean anything
Seems like SIE is now run by Don Mattrick
Wait who asked for a remake of this ps4 game? From what I recall remarking ps4 games was considered a waste or resources. To be fair I have not played this game and to it may not perform well in the ps4...
Haha what an absolutely mental week this has turned out to be. I am honestly starting to wonder if the rumours of there being a cancelled PlayStation showcase were true and now we are going to get trickles of gaming news over the coming weeks, as an alternative.
There HAS to be something in this or else it is just cruel.
As the article points out, Sony's official account does this every week or so, asking fans if they can identify select PlayStation games.
Please, please, please don't treat this like some kind of tease.
Don't Give Me Hope.
If it were a tease, knowing Sony recently, it would probably be for a PC port rather than a console remake or remaster.
@ShogunRok Booooo! Don’t temper our expectations like a sensible person. I want to have my hopes and dreams crushed.
Feel like they are just doing this to piss of people at this point. They know exactly what they are doing. Lol
If the account does this every week or so then why report it this week and not the others?
Its like you wanted to start something 🤔
@Ward_ting Same, to be honest. Gluttons for punishment.
Did Bloodbourne sell well?
@UltimateOtaku91 Well, unlike previous tweets, this is quite interesting. It shows just how tone-deaf Sony can be at times, and it proves that people are still desperate for anything related to Bloodborne. The reaction on Twitter has been huge, and the tweet's only been up for half an hour at the time of writing.
It's likely just because Halloween is right around the corner and this (incredible, amazing, all-time great) game fits that theme more than most.
Honestly this is mostly on the fans. As the article states PlayStation do this every week. Should they never put Bloodborne in a quiz and effectively ignore it forevermore less some fan gets over excited?
@ShogunRok Fair enough, wasn't their an uproar when they did it to horizon? As there's a rumoured remake for that as well.
@STOBO Official numbers had it over 2 million copies — but that was back in 2016. Not a massive blockbuster, but by all accounts, it did very well for itself.
@UltimateOtaku91 There might have been, I didn't see that one at the time. I guess people are always going to speculate over vague tweets from companies like Sony!
They're playing us like a damn fiddle. Next thing you know they'll do the same for Gravity Rush without giving GR2 a performance boost nor a remaster treatment.
Aaaaand they deleted the tweet. Lol
Hahaha, Sony took the tweet down. Dear me.
Added a screenshot of the tweet to the article instead.
It is inevitable that something Bloodborne related or a new from exclusive happens this generation. SIE didn't invest in Fromsoftware for nothing.
It wouldn't be SONY & PlayStation without a bit of chaos/controversy each week nowadays I always laugh hard when people cry on the Internet about any little thing to
The Sony PR person must have had low insight.
Just think, if only it weren't a PS4 exclusive a way better version would already be available on PC or Xbox because they actually bother to enhance their older stuff.
But i'm sure Sony will give it some texture and framerate updates to sell back to you for $70 as a 'remake' in about 2-3 years.
We'll absolutely have more Bloodborne at some point. The next volume from the comic series is out soon in fact, and Sony own shares in both Kadokawa and FromSoftware now.
It will happen.
However, on this occasion @themightyant is right - This one is on the fans.
Edit: Tweet deleted 😂
Edit 2: Just looked at the screenshot. That's never a tease, fml 😂😂
This is pretty much a story about how media make a story over anything! The only people who deserve our sympathy here are the muppets who absorb this rubbish.
Oh.
Wait a minute.
I AM a muppet.
Sucks they cant even mention bloodborne without people making it seem like some big deal
I don't get it, if they regularly do one of these "guess which game we've zoomed in on" tweets, why is this so weird? And why are people assuming it means anything?
lmao, they took it down. Just shows they they are indeed tone-deaf and couldn't read the room
ZOMG GUYZ BLOODBORNE REMAKE TOTALLY CONFIRMED!!!! O__o
@Korgon Best comment
So I have this downloaded, Demon's Souls, NIOH, GOW and GOT from PS Plus after just finishing Zero Dawn (Need a break before Forbidden West). Which should I play first?
Sony,... Tone deaf and completely. Ignorant of their fan base?
Noooooooo
Yeah, Sony's so dumb! They should never ever advertise any game that's already come out. What a bunch of dumb dummies!
This is so dumb.
Sony does this regularly. But because people demand a Bloodborne remake/remaster, it's like...off limits for the social media team to even post about unless it's an announcement.
I hate people.
@Max_the_German they actually were years ago when he worked at Sony before Microsoft
@ShogunRok "fans have been practically begging for a remake or a remaster or anything for years now?"
To add to what @belmont said, are the people asking for a remake or remaster of a PS4 game the same people who have been complaining non-stop about the remake of PS3 game TLoU? 🤷♂️
Oh my god, I just saw that Sony is selling Bloodborne on PSN, what could it mean?
It's just a tweet, guys, it's not that deep.
@rjejr yeah but you're leaving out the fact that the Last of Us was already remastered and the only reason people are asking for a bloodborne remaster or remake is because from soft is so arrogant and so ignorant that they will not even try to fix their career long frame rate and optimization issues in their games.
They're not going to up the frame rate and make a beloved classic more playable so that's why people are begging for another Studio to come out and remaster the unfixed garbage technical issues that from soft continues to put out using their same old engine.
THESE ARE BOTH VERY DIFFERENT CONTEXTS. Not to mention that nobody actually asked for a second remaster of The Last of Us
Typical tone-deaf Sony can't pull their ***** out of their ******* ***** long enough to make a ******* tweet!
Sony isn't allowed to post about Bloodborne at all without people losing it lol
I still don't get why they haven't done anything with it yet but at the same time people need to stop jumping at any small thing and thinking it means something more
Yet another meatless Bloodborne-related piece of "news" making the rounds around the web before it's quickly forgotten.
Raise your hand if you haven't become numb to it by now... Anybody?
@KundaliniRising333 "the unfixed garbage technical issues"
If the game was that bad why want to give them more money for a remake or remaster? 😂 Sounds like a $10 PS5 "upgrade" patch to me. 🤷♂️
cant play on the 5 with a 30 fps mode for my LG C1.guess Sony dont want players playing Bloodborne no more
They deleted the tweet lul
Supposedly Sony own the IP, but maybe there’s some deal in the publishing contract that future releases have to be multi platform or something. Would explain why they pretend BB doesn’t exist 99% of the time.
If people are begging for a Remake of a 2015 game, then said people have no moral right to question any other remakes, including 2017 HZD. I feel like Bloodborne should stay as is, it's a classic regardless of fps or whatnot. Almost felt like rebuying it the other day even though I've platted it but remembering the repetitive grinding because of its linearity, I said naahh, that's where Elden Ring shines. A remake might be too polished it may remove the charm of that gritty dark look.
I don't see why people are getting stressed/angry about this. They really need to get out more.
I do not get this at all. The article states that they do this every week. In this instance, they have chosen Bloodborne, a popular PlayStation game. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. It’s let of an ongoing guess the game quiz for mild entertainment. There is literally nothing more to read into it.
@rjejr I absolutely wouldn't even consider it a possibility that Fromsoft would ever be involved in it aside from consuktatiin/approval. It would need to be an outside studio. Fromsoft is not capable of the humble attitude to consider their products could be improved.
However I agree it should absolutely be an upgrade for a remaster. They all friggin should in my opinion if they are mere visual and performance upgrades to already released and purchased content.
@belmont
It is, my eyes roll when I see people wanting a remaster/remake. It needs a free update for ps4 , ps4 pro and ps5.
Not sure it’s tone deaf if they do this regularly with lots of games. They are just working through their catalogue of games..? Would be weird if they didn’t get to Bloodborne eventually.
Dear god this is stupid, it’s a ***** photo for weekly twitter post. all this really shows is just how embarrassing gaming press and “fans” can be.
'Surely you know that fans have been practically begging for a remake or a remaster' remakes / remasters of PS4 games is a big no from me (although I did think the graphics were really crap when I tried it)
Sequel, yes.
Remake/remaster, no.
It doesn't need a remake/remaster. Just a 60fps patch that is literally TWO lines of code, and upscaling. People on modded PS4 Pro and PS5's can play 60fps. Plus 4k upscaling on the PS5, still at 60fps. There's really no excuse.
Please Sony listen.
I can understand people being abit upset if Sony did a capcom & teased a game that looked alot like Bloodborne at first just for it to turn out to be some crap online game but this is really nothing to speculate over lol
What, I don't get why people would cause chaos over this. Or maybe I read it wrong.
If this is a regular feature, I don’t understand the fuss. Ah wait, it’s Twitter, full of twits, makes sense now.
@cburg I'd go with God of War with how close we are to the sequel (three-ish weeks)
Gamers are so stupid.
Gamers = drama queens. Really
@belmont People myself included just want Bloodborne at 60fps, remaster or PS5 patch doesn't matter we just want to play this the way it should be played.
Seriously? That's the story? With a headline like that, I thought they posted something racist or homophobic. Never would I think that you were all up in arms because Sony posted a photo of a game some are anticipating a sequel for and somehow this innocent addition to a photo series has induced all kinds of hyperventilating anxiety ( but I suppose drawing people here with an incendiary headline was the intent so hat's off for stealing a click).
Any "controversy" created is fully the communities fault or any news site considering it as Sony's blunder. Purely ridiculous.
Also, why are people acting like Bloodborne is a game trapped on a single system!? The game works perfectly fine and is accessible to anybody who can afford a ps4 or ps5. I'm sure there'll be a pc port in the future but it doesn't have to be now.
My guess is that PC versions of these games will show up. Horizon only had Zero Down and not Forbidden West yet. I know that it is rumored that Sony and Microsoft are leaning towards PC for "next gen", but playing exclusive franchises just feels better on a console rather than a PC.
Fix the 60fps on PS5 for Bloodborne Sony!
We know it's one line of code
@belmont Majority of fans just want a 60 fps update and possibly a remaster for PS5
@IonMagi do you not read what you write?
It means something alright.. it means Sony PR is far more idiotic then anyone would ever assume.
You do not put out this ***** regarding IPs fans are desperate for..
Is there nothing people won't make an issue out of?
Seriously, what is the big deal about this?
@themightyant yes
They are forbidden from acknowledging any game unless something new is coming soon
So basically it's town deaf to do any property that people want more of but aren't getting?
Sounds more like fans thinking something is being teased/ promised and them getting stupidly angry
It's not tone deaf, they do this every week or so and did it with a PS4 exclusive, an October appropriate game too
Sounds like you're just adding more to it that is there just to start drama tbh
@Ashina yeah they didn't realize gamers are a bunch of whiny little weirdos and that Bloodborne is off limits from being even acknowledged
They're not tone dead, people are just really stupid and weird about a picture
@Ashina no
Theyr posting pics like they do every week
You're playing yourself for literally no reason
@ShogunRok it's not vague, it's you pretending it's more than it is
It's tbe exact same as any other pic, it doesn't change just based on weather or not fans want more
@ShogunRok can you explain how it's Amy different than any other tweets?
@StooMonster hey man. Question, do you use discord?
Considering data miners have confirmed it would take one line of code to give us a 60fps version, Sony are being ridiculous not investing a little into a remaster.
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