Bloodborne is an action RPG from the FromSoftware company that has been released at PlayStation 4 console and earned a lot of praises from video game enthusiasts and journalists. Loyal fans have demanded that the game should be developed into a PC port and better version for PlayStation 5, however, Sony has yet to comment on the issue. The question arises: or rather, what motivates Sony to be so hesitant when it comes to Bloodborne on these platforms?
One of them may likely be that Bloodborne is a PlayStation exclusivity and that the console has a strategic importance as a gaming platform. Therefore, by anchoring it to PS4, the selling proposition remains another competitive weapon that attracts gamers to the Sony ecosystem. This exclusivity is unimportant in gaming that is characterized by intense competition; its titles are known to affect console sales.
However, it is also important to realize that porting a game template such as Bloodborne is not easy at all. Even the prior game was designed to be fully compatible with the hardware of the PS4 game console. If it had to be optimized to work well on the PC natively or ported to be optimizable for the PS5, it would demand some amount of work and investment. Unfortunately, due to the ongoing work of its developer – FromSoftware, it is currently busy developing other games, Elden Ring, in particular. Perhaps, they are unable to give time and effort to develop a Bloodborne port or they deem it unprofitable to do so at present.
One may also ask where this market conception stands on the strategic level. This is where a company such as Sony might be waiting for the right time to release such a port, often, such optimizations are synchronised with a broader marketing effort or a new game announcement, which in the end makes a larger impact.
Thus, there is a list of reasons why fans wait for Bloodborne on PC and PS5 While it might seem that Sony is just waiting and hesitating the author explains this by the following factors: strategic, technical, and the problem of resources. Whether or not it continue to do so and when remain to be seen as Sony has yet to decide if this gothic masterpiece deserves another port.