Amazon Discounted First-Party PS4 Games in May 2015, Including Bloodborne and The Order: 1886

In mid-2015, Amazon featured a wide range of discounts on PlayStation 4 games, with a particular focus on Sony’s first-party lineup. The sale included price reductions on then-recent releases like Bloodborne and The Order: 1886, as well as deeper cuts on titles that had launched alongside the console in late 2013.

First-Party Exclusives on Sale

Two of the most prominent titles in the sale were FromSoftware’s Bloodborne and Ready at Dawn’s The Order: 1886. Both games, released just months earlier in March and February 2015 respectively, were listed with a 33 percent discount from their standard retail price. MLB 15: The Show, another recent release from March 2015, was also part of the promotion and was available at a 14 percent discount.

The sale provided an opportunity to acquire several of the PS4’s earlier titles at significantly lower prices. inFamous: Second Son, Sucker Punch Productions’ open-world action game from 2014, was reduced by 56 percent.

Launch titles saw even steeper discounts more than a year after the console’s release. Guerrilla Games’ shooter Killzone: Shadow Fall was 61 percent off, while Japan Studio’s platformer Knack was available for 67 percent off its original price. The critically acclaimed Naughty Dog title, The Last of Us Remastered, also saw a major price drop, with the digital version of the game listed at a 58 percent discount.

Third-Party Games and Hardware Deals

Beyond Sony’s own games, the promotion extended to many popular third-party titles from late 2014 and early 2015. Battlefield Hardline and Dragon Age: Inquisition were both available for 33 percent off. Other discounted games included Evolve (up to 41 percent off), Far Cry 4 (25 percent off), and Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (up to 40 percent off).

Square Enix’s catalog was represented with deals on Final Fantasy Type-0 HD (up to 33 percent off for PS4) and the PlayStation 3 version of Final Fantasy X|X-2 HD Remaster (30 percent off). A listing for the Limited Edition of the PS4 remaster was also active at the time.

The sale period also highlighted several upcoming releases and hardware bundles. Pre-orders were available for the standard and Limited Edition 500GB PlayStation 4 consoles bundled with Batman: Arkham Knight. Players could also place pre-orders for Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 to secure access to its multiplayer beta, or for Star Wars Battlefront to get one week of early access to the “Battle of Jakku” DLC. A listing for the Halo 5: Guardians Limited Collector’s Edition for Xbox One was also featured among the video game deals.

The offers were not limited to software. The official PlayStation Silver Wired Stereo Headset was heavily discounted by 58 percent. Strategy guides for games like The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Final Fantasy Type-0 HD were also on sale.