“I think having new hardware is definitely a part of what gives these remakes value”
Find room to squeeze one more nail into the coffin scrawled with “Hopes for Bloodborne on PC”, as the head of developers FromSoftware has suggested that aBloodborneremake might need to wait on another generation of console hardware.
“I think having new hardware is definitely a part of what gives these remakes value,” Miyazaki said. “Things you weren’t able to achieve on previous generations of hardware, ways you weren’t able to render specific expressions - [new hardware] sometimes makes it possible.”
While hardware is a factor, Miyazaki offered some assurance that it wouldn’t be the “be-all and end-all” when it came to deciding whether to remake Bloodborne one day.
“Purely from a user perspective, modern hardware also allows more players to appreciate all the games. And so, it ends up being a simple reason,” he continued. “But as a fellow player, I think that accessibility is important. I think that can be the driving force between bringing an old game to a new platform.”
Of course, Bloodborne wouldn’t need a complete remake to justify coming to PC in some form, either - but as the game still hasn’t been patched to run at a smooth 60fps on even PlayStation 5, it could be that we’re holding out for a total do-over at this point. And that, it seems, might take until the PlayStation 6.
Miyazaki, for his part, simply concluded that he couldn’t say anything more about a possible remake, while acknowledging the ongoing ‘passion’ (one word for it) expressed by fans about the eventual return of Bloodborne.
“Put simply, it makes me very happy to see it’s a title with a lot of specific memories, both for me and the staff who worked on it,” he said. “And when we see those passionate voices in the community, of course it makes us feel thrilled, it makes us feel very fortunate to have that and to have those memories.”
