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Persona series tops 8.5 million sales, Megami Tensei series top 7.2 million
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https://gematsu.com/2017/10/persona...on-megami-tensei-series-sales-top-7-2-million
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I would have been surprised if it had been the other way around.
Persona since 3 felt a lot more marketable and easier to get into.
Great sales news for SMT and Persona but in that same article:
Yakuza series (Launched 2005) – Approx. 10.5 million units / downloads across 75 total editions (packaged and digital total)
Huh? That can't be right, surely? Misprint?
Yakuza series (Launched 2005) – Approx. 10.5 million units / downloads across 75 total editions (packaged and digital total)
Huh? That can't be right, surely? Misprint?
To a niche IP like Persona, it's huge. Persona 4 Golden and P5 were probably the only million selling entries.
Thats not low. Its not a Super Mario where the series targets everybody. We all know that both Persona and SMT targets a certain audience
Nice for two franchises that have been super niche for the bulk of their existence.
Pretty sure that's all releases across all regions.
Pretty sure that's all releases across all regions.
I even expected a bit more, to be honest. Persona 5 is the best game of the year for me so far. I've even thought about buying a PSVita with P4 Golden next year (I don't think I will tough).
Those are ok sales for niche series, especially if we consider that Persona only somewhat took off with 3, and SMT didn't even release in the West before PS2 generation
P3-4 got good media support too. 5 will get more. game sales is not everything.
not many series get to last this long.
not many series get to last this long.
These are sales numbers of course and people may think its niche just from those numbers, but don't forget that's not the amount of people who played it whether they borrowed a copy, bought it preowned, pirated, rented etc I'd say 2x those sales numbers people have played those games
This is probably actually the plot of SMTV
Not really comparable, Final Fantasy is a bigger brand and also its a lot more mainstream then Persona.
Yeah i know and at least atlus are still making great games, its just that it cant be worth it for atlus to work for 5 years to only sell a couple of millions each time
SMT - 600k (July 2015)
Persona 5 - 1.8 million (July 2017)
Persona series sales were 6.9 million in Nov 2016, with 550k P5 copies counted for (JP+Asia). Assuming Persona 5 is the only Persona game still selling notable numbers (a safe assumption), Persona 5 could have a LTD of 2.15 million.
Did you know that Pokémon Red/Blue/Green alone sold more than the Persona and SMT franchise AND FFVII combined?
Again, Persona was niche and hasn't gotten million sellers until recently.
It really depends on how low they keep costs when making a game, really. Considering the series hasn't really died until this point, one would guess the sales make up for the costs of making them, so they keep making them. The series has never been "AAA" in terms of that, so it doesn't need those types of numbers to stay afloat.
I mean, if it wasn't worth it, I'm sure we wouldn't be getting announcements of two spin-offs of Persona 5 within a year of them releasing. :p
Of course, it's also worth noting that the spin-offs sell almost as well as the mainline games/re-releases, so there's that to consider as well.
Look at this that way: Atlus games also have a much lower budget than something like FF7, whose development cost was astronomical for the time. Persona V is probably the only exception, and it did sell quite well.
SMT is the Dark Souls of Persona so it's expected to sell less
Well I've been a fan since Persona 3 so I'm pretty happy for them. Will happily but day one anything Persona and SMT.
just kidding
Well I've been a fan since Persona 3 so I'm pretty happy for them. Will happily but day one anything Persona and SMT.
Lol and i thought final fantasy was the biggest jrpg franchise
It really depends on the budget, they probably still make a lot of money.
Also they expand the franchise which then helps with the sales of the spin offs and "golden" version's.
I'm sure SMT V will get very good numbers, but I doubt it'll sell enough for SMT to catch up to Persona. If nothing else the fact that there's 3 new persona games on the horizon gives Persona a leg up on SMT
But that's where all the Persona spin offs and adaptations help. The P4 Golden anime may have sucked, but it probably made Atlus a ton of money
Not to say that Atlus is not that big a company. They can get away with much smaller sale numbers than companies like Squeenix
