Persona 3/5 Dancing sells 65k copies across six SKUs.

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Via Persona Central:

Persona 3: Dancing Moon Night and Persona 5: Dancing Star Night were released in Japan last week on May 24th, and sales tracker Media Create reports that at least 64,554 copies were sold in total for both of the rhythm games.

The first rhythm game, Persona 4: Dancing All Night, debuted with 94k copies sold on the PS Vita in June 2015.

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Below is a list of the number of copies sold for the different versions of the game, which consist of the PS4 and PS Vita versions of P3D and P5D, as well as the "Persona Dancin' All-Star Triple Pack" limited edition for the PS4, and the "Persona Dancin' Deluxe Twin Plus" limited edition for the PS Vita.

1. [PS4] Persona Dancing: All-Star Triple Pack {2018-05-24} — 27,240 / NEW
2. [PSV] Persona Dancing: Deluxe Twin Plus {2018-05-24} — 21,579 / NEW
3. [PS4] Persona 5: Dancing Star Night {2018-05-24} – 7,876 / NEW
4. [PSV] Persona 5: Dancing Star Night {2018-05-24} – 4,554 / NEW
5. [PSV] Persona 3: Dancing Moon Night {2018-05-24} – 3,305 / NEW

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Also of note, P3D on PS4 sold less than 3k copies:

The PS4 version of Persona 3: Dancing Moon Night did not rank within the top 20 games sold in the past week, which means it sold fewer than 3,008 copies. Therefore, the total is higher than 64,554 copies, but not significantly so.

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It's not surprising, as the games are two full priced titles which are both pretty minimal on content, and then are compounded by a significant amount of already-developed and very expensive DLC. This is the first time I've felt that Atlus are actually gouging their fanbase, and I'm glad it hasn't been successful.

 

[Deleted member 11413]

Ouch. Maybe they should bundle them together for the west.

 

[VegiHam]

Bloody hell that's a bomb. Good lord.

 

[Xita]

Bomba All Night

 

[Vamphuntr]

It seems to be such a terrible value considering the amount of DLC they expect you to buy for two games without even a story mode. P4D plot was atrocious but that doesn't mean there wasn't room for improvement. Guess they got the sale they deserved.

 

[Jon Carter]

Six SKUs in one day, smart move.

 

[Poppy]

thats less than the amount of leaves in zork

which is a known industry standard

 

[Twookie]

not too terribly surpised tbh

 

[catboy]

Flop

 

[Deleted member 8196]

This what happens when you go too far and you start to milk the franchise.

 

[GrantDaNasty]

That's bad, but I honestly don't know what Atlus was expecting with 2 versions.

Genuinely have no clue. Did no one go "guys...this franchise is not Pokemon, IN ADDITION THESE ARE BOTH RHYTHM GAMES, IT IS A NICHE [Rhythm game] OF A NICHE [SMT Series] OF A NICHE [JRPGs]"?

 

[FallenGrace]

Ouch....Just, ouch.

 

[Daniel Westlake]

Bombs away.

 

[Deleted member 41931]

While I'm not happy about this, they kind of did this to themselves.

 

[Knight613]

Were the games actually good?

 

[Arsic]

Ouch. Is this out in the USA yet ? I want both but the marketing doesn't exist.

 

[Hero]

Way too many SKUs at once, not to mention I can't imagine there was a lot of demand for this. P5 cast I can sort of see doing the dancing thing but the P3 cast? Ell oh ell

 

[Charamiwa]

Shouldn't the deluxe packs count as two copies? It would make it a bit better I guess.

 

[_zoipi]

This is the first time I've felt that Atlus are actually gouging their fanbase

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Just the first time? When Persona 4 was a hit they released an anime (which was okay), P4G (which was great) and then they doubled down with an anime of Golden, a good but low on content fighting game with a sequel badly managed, a pachinko... And don't get me started with the Dancing games, which no people wanted, and as rhythm games are bad and only serve as fanservice. That was the starting of the milking. Oh, an Persona Q, a total retcon made canon using a lame Etrian Odyssey skin.

Atlus has adopted the "living thanks to whales system" proper of gacha games where they ony need some thounsands of avid players that pay a lot. I'm happy that they made Persona 5 a more marketable game while maintaining the appeal since 3, but some of their actions are indefensible with those games nobody ask and have no redeeming value outside of brand fanservice.

 

[Listai]

Oh shit, I thought they were bundled.

Jesus, no wonder it ate shit on release.

 

[GalvoAg]

I mean did anyone expect this to do good? You could see this from a mile away, just a waste of time and resources by Atlus.

 

[TheNotoriousAFG]

When the milking runs dry.

 

[Kewlmyc]

Pathetic.

Makes sense considering everything about these two games screams "low effort."

 

[Zyrox]

These games look like cash grabs so I'm not exactly sad that they are not doing well.

 

[Deleted member 14377]

Hopefully they put their resources into games/spinoffs people actually want instead of this. Yeesh.

 

[Mauricio_Magus]

It probably didn't help that P4D was a terrible rhythm game.

 

[Y2Kev]

Why would you even buy p5d? So you could listen to beneath the mask for 90 hours like in the game?

 

[Wamb0wneD]

Them not bundling them and already having shittons of DLC planned turned me off. I'd love to dance with best waifu, but not like this.

 

[rhandino]

6 SKU? Oh wow, did they thought the Fire Emblem If formula was going to work for them? lol

... I do want to say that is because P4DAN was trash and people woke up but I haven't tried these new ones yet

 

[Dreamboum]

The DLC offering would most likely ease the fall nicely

 

[Astral]

Bring on the dual pack with all the DLC included for the West Atlus.

 

[Deleted member 17627]

It's really a shame what they did with this game, given that from what I've seen, a lot more effort went into making this than the Persona 4 Dancing entry. Watching some gameplay, it looked a lot more charming and fun, but from the DLC, to two separate versions that still cost a decent amount, it can see how this happened.

 

[huH1678]

deserved.

 

[Iva Demilcol]

NA versions cancelled.

 

[Desmond]

They say P3D didn't sell well, but I'm still waiting on the Vita version to come back into stock on Amazon JP, they only shipped out my Vita copy of P5D

 

[famikon]

you people missed one little detail:

[PS4] Persona Dancing: All-Star Triple Pack (¥16.880) - 27.240 ~ 155 USD
[PSV] Persona Dancing: Deluxe Twin Plus (¥15.780) - 21.579 ~ 145 USD

 

[Poppy]

It probably didn't help that P4D was a terrible rhythm game.

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im glad it wasnt just the fact that i was trying to play that junk on a vita tv that leads to this opinion

i felt pretty fucking dumb about buying it after

 

[LycanXIII]

Ouch. Is this out in the USA yet ? I want both but the marketing doesn't exist.

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It hasn't been announced for the west.

 

[SinCityAssassin]

I simultaneous can hold and can't hold all of these SKUs.

 

[Deleted member 15538]

Good enough for P3/4 remasters!

 

[Nintendojitsu]

Most will blame the platforms but the smart ones will say that the greedy DLC was the cause.

 

[Geeklat]

As a Rhythm game, the base mechanic feels bad. Watching the notes travel from the center to the left and right is hard to follow on a large TV. It may work ok on a Vita or a mobile device like in the Love Live rhythm game. But on a 50"+ screen it's just not really enjoyable.

 

[FluxWaveZ]

It's really a shame what they did with this game, given that from what I've seen, a lot more effort went into making this than the Persona 4 Dancing entry.

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I really don't see how. P4D had a full fledged story mode. Regardless of its quality, it was involved with a flowchart, tons of dialogue and voice acting, and a coherent plot that was way longer than it needed to be for a rhythm game.

It had more songs in the base game. It had end-of-song Persona summoning sequences. It basically created the template that P3D and P5D copy whole cloth.

 

[Trigonometrize]

I enjoy the games, but they aren't worth more than 2,000 yen, let alone 6,000-8,000.

 

[Deleted member 9714]

These titles were such blatant cash grabs. Split into two separate versions when it wasn't necessary, no story mode, tons of DLC. 65k is more than it deserves.

 

[Rainy]

There's probably no chance they would combine the games for the NA release would they?

 

[FHIZ]

Meh, I still want them when they come over.

That said, I saw a few videos pop up on my YouTube feed, and are the songs even remixed? The P5 songs I heard sounded just like the originals and if that's the case, maybe I can wait a bit until it bombs here too...

 

[Yinyangfooey]

They should have used the resources and models from P3D to make a definitive version of P3 instead...

 

[Ben Walker]

Six SKUs? Oof. That's a rough launch.

 

[Dream Machine]

Stop milking those udders, and focus on making the rpgs that people actually want. Jesus Christ, y'all.

It was cute that you did a dancing game a few years ago, but now these spin offs just make me sad.