SEGA Reveals Sales for Sonic, Megami Tensei, Persona, Etrian Odyssey, More - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 06 November 2018 / 4,390 Views
SEGA has released updated sales figures for several of its franchises. This includes Sonic the Hedgehog, Yakuza, Megami Tensei, Persona, Etrian Odyssey, and more.
Here is the complete list of sales numbers from SEGA:
Acquired Intellectual Properties:
- Megami Tensei series (since 1987) – Approx. 12.4 million (units / downloads) (packaged and digital total) across 30 total editions
- Persona series (since 1996) – Approx. 9.3 million (units / downloads) (packaged and digital total) across 15 total editions
- Etrian Odyssey series (since 2007) Approx. 1.9 million (units / downloads) (packaged and digital total) across 10 total editions
- Total War series (since 2000) – Approx. 22 million (units / downloads) (packaged and digital total)
- Football Manager series (since 2005) – Approx. 18.1 million (units / downloads) (packaged and digital total)
In-House Intellectual Properties:
- Sonic the Hedgehog series (since 1991) – Approx. 800 million (units / downloads) (packaged and digital total)
- Puyo Puyo series (since 1991) – Approx. 27 million (units / downloads) (packaged and digital total, AM-registered ID total (total for registrations after IP acquisition))
- Yakuza series (since 2005) – Approx. 11 million (units / downloads) (packaged and digital total) across 92 total editions
- Aladdin series (since 1989) – Approx. 570,000 (pachislot and pachinko machines and amusement machine total) across 14 total editions
- Beast King series (since 2001) – Approx. 490,000 (pachislot and pachinko machines and amusement machine total) across 15 total editions
- Phantasy Star series (since 1987) – Approx. five million ID (cumulative total for registered IDs)
- Chain Chronicle series (since 2013) – Approx. 15 million (downloads) (packaged and digital total) across three total editions
Licensed from Third-Parties:
- Sega feat. Hatsune Miku Project series (since 2009) – Approx. six million units (packaged and digital total) across 61 total editions
- Hokuto no Ken series (since 2002) – Approx. 2.74 million units (pachislot and pachinko machines and amusement machine total) across 33 total editions
- Souten no Ken series (since 2009) – Approx. 440,000 units (pachislot and pachinko machines total) across nine total editions
Thanks Gematsu.
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I wonder if we could see the real sales for some of this series. Sonic's numbers look incredibly inflated by the mobile free downloads...
Yeah. There is no way they have sold 800mm Sonic games. Still, I'm sure the number is impressive, so I'd like to see it.
A VG Chartz search for "Sonic" yeilds 118.6 million in physical retail sales for Sonic games with Sonic in the title. Including missing titles for like, the Game Gear and shit like that, plus the few titles without Sonic in the name like Robotniks Mean Bean Machine or what have you, plus one time digital sales for retail console and PC games, and you could generously say maybe 300 million of that 800 million are not from mobile games.
Whats with all the collections where you can get all four Phantasy Star games on? Are they added to the numbers? And if they are, does one collection give a +1 to each single game?
Phantasy Star says since 1987 but then just lists the number of registered IDs for, presumably, the latest Phantasy Star MMO.
Yakuza 90 editions... Holy sheeet
