Fans Left Wondering About a PS5 Port as Bloodborne Again Skips State of Play.

The February 2025 State of Play has come and gone, and so too has another opportunity for Sony to announce a Bloodborne remaster.

This week’s presentation saw Sony pull back the curtain to reveal a sneak peek at its plans to bring more first- and third-party experiences to PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. Highlights included Housemarque’s reveal of its Returnal successor, Saros, and the long-awaited release date for Konami’s Unreal Engine 5 remake, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater. But one notable video game was a total no-show: Bloodborne.

the persistence continues 😭 #bloodborne pic.twitter.com/GOcAO4Bi5g

— Genki✨ (@Genki_JPN) February 12, 2025

As the 40-minute show wrapped up, most fans wiped off the clown makeup so they could inevitably rebuild expectations for some sort of comeback in the future. For others, the absence stung more than usual. March 24, 2025, marks the 10-year anniversary of Bloodborne’s launch on PS4, making this year feel like a now-or-never moment for PlayStation and developer FromSoftware to do… anything with the IP.

Bloodborne remaster campaigners have slowly grown their numbers over the last five years, but hopes for an announcement took on a new form when Sony issued a DMCA takedown to Lance McDonald, the creator of a popular Bloodborne 60fps mod for the action RPG, late last month. Sony was calling for links to the patch to be scrubbed from the internet, and only one week later, a PlayStation 1-style demake called Bloodborne PSX suffered the same fate. It’s not exactly a surprise to see Sony taking action against community creations like this, but the timing had many, including McDonald, raising their eyebrows.

“My copium theory is that Sony DMCAed the 60fps patch and the video about the Bloodborne demake so that when they announce a 60fps remake, Google searching for ‘Bloodborne 60fps’ and ‘Bloodborne remake’ won’t have collisions with our fan projects,” McDonald said. “Let me cope.”

Then, just days after Sony moved to pull these fan-made projects down, a State of Play was announced. After years of begging and nearly a decade since launch, this had to be it, right? Well, whether you were surprised or not, not one frame of Bloodborne found its way into the presentation, and fans haven’t been taking it well.

another year no bloodborne https://t.co/XCB8LZ3Ds7 pic.twitter.com/VVohE0C4gp

— ۟ (@scadutree) February 12, 2025

some of you clearly didn’t watch amazon’s secret level playstation episode when Sackboy turned to the camera and said, “We will NEVER remake or remaster bloodborne!” pic.twitter.com/Y89LwShCVh

— Gene Park (@GenePark) February 12, 2025

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— Micky D (@DeMickyD) February 13, 2025

Driving the cleaver deeper was Sony’s promise to bring Days Gone Remastered to PS5 owners in April. This re-release of Bend Studio’s post-apocalyptic narrative adventure arrives on the six-year anniversary of its original launch on PS4 and sees it joining a list of other first-party remasters that includes Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered, The Last of Us Part I, and The Last of Us Part II Remastered. No-one outside Sony is sure on what qualifies a game to be deserving of a remaster. With so many players begging to return to Yharnam’s beastly streets and with FromSoftware titles more popular than ever, it’s hard not to walk out of a Bloodborne-less State of Play without a question mark above your head.

To be fair, as quiet as Sony has been when it comes to Bloodborne content, fans haven’t been completely starved of an explanation from it or FromSoftware. Former Sony Interactive Entertainment executive Shuhei Yoshida, who retired last month, touched on his theory as to why we’ve not seen more Bloodborne during a recent conversation with Kinda Funny Games. He suspects that director Hidetaka Miyazaki is too busy and too attached to the IP to let anyone else get involved other than himself.

“I left first-party so I don’t know what’s going on,” Yoshida said in January, “but my theory is, you know because I remember, you know, Miyazaki-san really, really loved Bloodborne, you know, what he created. So, I think he is interested, but he’s so successful and he’s so busy, so he doesn’t want, he cannot do himself, but he does not want anyone else to touch it. So that’s my theory. And the PlayStation team respect his wish. So that’s my guess, right? Theory. I am not revealing any secret information, to be clear.”

Everyone thought with Bloodborne’s 10 year anniversary approaching and Sony DMCA taking down the 60FPS patch that something was coming but uhhh…

Nope.

We get Days Gone Remastered lmao https://t.co/Q8DzgbSJNi

— Michael (@LegacyKillaHD) February 12, 2025

Miyazaki, meanwhile, has also addressed desires for a Bloodborne remaster and PC port. When speaking with IGN last year, the Dark Souls mastermind clarified that he wasn’t “at liberty to speak to it” because FromSoftware doesn’t own the IP rights. It’s fair reason to dodge the conversation around Bloodborne, though Miyazaki also suggested to Eurogamer that he believes a remake could benefit from modern hardware.

“It is a title we hold very dear and just as much as our fans,” the FromSoftware lead told Eurogamer early last year. “It does make me very happy to see that there are still so many people passionate about it.”

There has never been an official mention of a Bloodborne remaster, and 2025 is shaping up to be another year without some form of PS5 or PC port. As the PS5 barrels through its fifth full year on the market, one can only wonder when or if Sony will have anything to announce. While we wait to see if PlayStation has any leftover Blood Vials lying around, you can check out our list of the top 25 FromSoftware bosses. You can also see why a recent PlayStation trailer had Bloodborne fans freaking out.

Michael Cripe is a freelance contributor with IGN. He’s best known for his work at sites like The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be sure to give him a follow on Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe).