Persona Series Sales Top 15 Million Units, Persona 5 Royal Sells 1.8 Million - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 30 June 2021 / 2,894 Views
Atlus in its earnings report for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2021 has revealed the sales figures for the Persona franchise.
The total sales for the Persona series has now topped 15 million units worldwide.
Persona 5 Royal (PS4) has sold over 1.8 million units, which is up from 1.4 million in July 2020. Persona 5 Strikers (PS4, Switch, PC) has sold over 1.5 million units, which is up from 1.3 million in April 2021. Persona 4 Golden (PC) has sold over 900,000 units, which is up from 500,000 in July 2020.
Sales in North America, Europe, and Asia for games in the Persona franchise have exceeded the expectations of Atlus.
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Hopefully SMT V will see similar success.
I've never understood why they released P5 Strikers on Switch and PC, and not P5 itself. I don't know how they thought people with only one platform would buy a game without having been able to play the prequel. As much as sales haven't been bad, they've lost thousands of copies sold due to the mismanagement of exclusivity on PS4.
My only guess is that they had some exclusivity agreement for core Persona titles with Sony, or at least for Persona 5. That's the only logical reason why Persona 5 (the vanilla release or Royal) isn't on Switch or PC.
Persona 4 Golden is the first core Persona installment ever to release on anything other than a PlayStaton platform.
They really should port Persona 5 to Switch and PC. Heck, put it on Xbox as well. Persona 4 Golden should also get a Switch and Xbox release, as well as releases on PS4 or PS5.
I feel the same way, but I'm very surprised that Atlus still maintains this exclusivity. Personally I think that, unlike in past generations, Nintendo's console has more potential than Play Station's to sell JRPGs.
Both companies' targets have transformed with PS4 and Switch, and their JRPG audiences have become much more equal.
I think they are losing a lot of money by not seeing this potential of Switch.
I imagine there is some exclusivity at play here, and the same is probably true with Shin Megami Tensei V.
It's weird that Atlus is dividing and conquering. Shin Megami Tensei IV is a 3DS exclusive. V will be a Switch exclusive.
Persona (which is spun off from SMT) has had all its core RPGs exclusive to PlayStation, minus the PC release of Persona 4 Golden.
I feel like Atlus is throwing away money by letting Nintendo have some SMT titles and Sony have most Persona titles.
Surely with Sega owning Atlus, you think they would want the games to go multiplatform.
If I had to take a guess, this is just a remnant of back when the Persona series wasn't that popular. I'm sure Atlus thought the exclusivity would not stop that many sales, and now they are stuck with the deal. They probably still think that for SMT V.
Or, they don't want to work on too many platforms at once and stick to Sony (with Persona) as they probably project that would give them the most sales on one platform.
Awesome news for this IP. Hopefully we have some game news around September for the 25th anniversary.
Great game. Happy for them.
Such a good series. Hope they continue to release more games on pc as well after the success of p4 golden on steam.
Oh, Persona 6 is happening. There's no question about that. The only question is will it be multiplatform or still PlayStation exclusive?
