Demon’s Souls Remake Sales Top 1.4 Million Units - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 30 September 2021 / 3,856 Views
Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment and developer Bluepoint Games announced the PlayStation 5 remake of Demon’s Souls has sold over 1.4 million units as of September 19.
It was also announced today PlayStation has acquired Bluepoint Games. The studio has also worked on PS4 remakes and remasters of Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection, Shadow of the Colossus, Gravity Rush and many more.
The remake of Demon’s Souls released for the PS5 on November 12, 2020.
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Awesome news!
Just goes to show you that when you do a proper remake it pays off. This coupled with Sony's latest acquisition of Bluepoint games is nothing but good news for gamers.
It seems like for years we had been stuck in a remaster or HD upgrade landscape so I'm glad that we are seeing more actual from the ground up remakes (Demon's Souls, FF7 remake, RE2 remake, etc...).
If you're going to do a remake do it right!
-VIDEOGAME CLASSIC REMAKE NINJA APPROVED-
hell fcken yeah those numbaz!
and who didnt see that coming?
they leaked it already! haha
welcome to sony bluepoint!
Wow, that's a lot higher than what I was expecting. Bluepoint have done an incredible job with the remake, well deserved success!
"It was also announced today PlayStation has acquired Bluepoint Games." as a side note? really? this is the bigger news, than how much Demon Souls Sold :) it deserves its own article.
I wonder how it cost to development. It looks like a complete overhaul.
They have at this moment 70 employees and considering their last game launched was like 3 years before. Let`s assume yearly wage of 50k per employee so 50000370 =10.5M USD . If Sony profit on the game is like 30 USD per copy they had 42M done on the game. So take a little more for other costs and marketing the game have at least brought double the profit of what was invested.
The average cost per employee is probably more like 100K. Salary is higher and you have also taxes, equipment, licenses. So let's say that is 21m
Sony probably earned an average of 60m per copy after VAT worldwide. That is a revenue of about 84m. Including marketing and facilities profit is probably the amount you mentioned by now :p.
Congratulations, a remake of a niche game on a small userbase selling this well is impressive.
There an argument to be made that these remake are too successful taking away from spending on new IP.
Especially, if the remakes are made with internal studios at Sony, Microsoft & Nintendo.
There isn't. Bluepoint expertise is making remasters and remake is almost like making a new game. I feel 0% harmed by something like Resident Evil 2 and 3 Remakes or Demon's.
Well now Bluepoint is working on a new IP. Are you more exited that they are working on a new IP or would you rather they only do remaster and remake?
That is just a rumor (not much credible since they have 70 people and working on a remake and new IP at once seems to much), not that excited about they making a new game although I whish them best of lucks, because that isn't where their expertise is.
I want this game but I'm waiting for a good price second hand, there's no way I'm paying 70pounds for it (94 dollars). I still have enough games to last me years, so I'm good waiting.
