Sonic X Shadow Generations Sales Top 2.3 Million Units, Metaphor: ReFantazio Tops 2 Million Units - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 20 June 2025 / 7,486 Views
The presentation for the Sega Sammy Management Meeting 2025 has revealed updated sales numbers for two games.
Sonic X Shadow Generations has now sold over 2.3 million units, which is up from two million units as of January 2025.
Metaphor: ReFantazio has sold over two million units worldwide, which is up from one million units shipped in October 2024.
Sonic X Shadow Generations released for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store on October 25, 2024, and for the Nintendo Switch 2 on June 5, 2025.
Metaphor: ReFantazio released for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, and PC via Steam and Microsoft Store on October 11, 2024.
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Sonic X Shadow Generations deserves to sell well, it is an absolutely terrific release. Sonic Generations was already a masterpiece, Shadow Generations lives up to that same standard. Incredible level design with great replayability.
Refantazio is a bit more front loaded then I'd like given its reception, looking like 3m LT... Which is still good for an AA JRRPG. With Altlus' typical re-release mentality, it will probably do 5 LT with a S2 version and updated content version on PS5/PC/SX
Seems like Refantazio is selling pretty well
Sad to see Sonic doing potentially less than 3M LT once again.
2.3mil for a remaster is very solid for only six months. The game will absolutely crush 3mil LTD.
Yeah, it's hitting 3 million. 4 million or more isn't crazy either with enough positive word of mouth.
This number is a lot better than the numbers they were doing post Sonic Lost World until Frontiers released.
Forces sold well too, only Lost World and Boom flopped in terms of recent 3D Sonic games.
If Forces sold well then Frontiers wouldn't have been the final game where Sonic Team would be given big budgets. If Frontiers didn't sell well that would have been it for big budget Sonic games.
I mean Sega said on their fiscal results for the year that it released that it "performed strongly" and there are various 3rd party game tracking tools that suggest it sold fairly well also. 2 different 3rd party Steam trackers have estimated sales of around 600k life to date there, while a 3rd party Playstation tracker has estimated around 3m sales there life to date. Sonic games usually perform between PC and PS on Xbox, so probably looking at something like 5-5.5m life to date across all platforms. It's not an amazing number, considering Frontiers is already at 4.5m in less than 3 years compared to 7.6 years for Forces, but it's not terrible either, well above the Wii and Wii U exclusive Sonic games at least.
2.3 million for a remaster in ~6 months is pretty good.
Nah, Sonic games leg very well, it will definitely do over 3m lifetime. It just leaked yesterday that Frontiers sold 760k in year 2 and 610k in year 3, which in addition to the 3.2m in year one brings it to 4.57m life to date. Meanwhile Team Sonic Racing went from 1.3m to 870k to 520k to 310k to 200k to 220k each fiscal year since it released.
Good to see Sega doing well
