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Sega Sammy has released the company's Fiscal Year Ending March 2024 first quarter (consisting of April, May, June 2023) financial results today. As with previous earnings reports, Sega has an outline for specific game series which notably performed during that quarter, including Persona.

According to the financial results, the Persona series sold approximately 630k units worldwide (including digital and physical sales) in April, May, and June 2023. This comes from repeat sales of previously released Persona games, notably the newly remastered versions of Persona 3 Portable, Persona 4 Golden, and Persona 5 Royal.

As reported in April 2023, the Persona series had achieved 3.27 million copies sold from the beginning of April 2022 to the end of March 2023.

Previous Persona Sales Milestones

In November 2022, Atlus confirmed that the Persona series had sold approximately 16.8 million units worldwide. As of the end of November 2022, the Persona 5 series (including Persona 5, Persona 5 Royal, Persona 5 Strikers, and Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight) had sold 8.3 million units worldwide. In April 2023, Sega confirmed that the remastered release of Persona 5 Royal had surpassed 1.7 million copies sold.

Persona Series Sold 630k Copies Worldwide From April to June 2023 - Persona Central

Sega Sammy has released the company's Fiscal Year Ending March 2024 first quarter results, with updated sales numbers for the Persona series.

personacentral.com

 

[Skifi28]

I would have expected the PC version of 5 alone to sell half a million. I guess the series is far more niche than I imagined.

Edit: ok, I remembered the release of the remastered versions wrong.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

I would have expected the PC version of 5 alone to sell half a million. I guess the series is far more niche than I imagined.

According to steamdb it sold around 1M units on PC alone since its release last October: https://steamdb.info/app/1687950/charts/.

 

[poppabk]

I would have expected the PC version of 5 alone to sell half a million. I guess the series is far more niche than I imagined.

Why would it be selling half a million in April - Jun of this year?

 

[Evil Calvin]

Why would it be selling half a million in April - Jun of this year?

....and why would they even need to announce this? I hate when publishers put out a release like this, just to pat themselves on the back. Seems like a cheap marketing ploy to get the series in the public eye before a sale.

 

[kvltus lvlzvs]

Good. Im glad to see the visual novel genre is getting more traction.

 

[Paltheos]

It surprises me that Sonic sells so much but I guess I underestimate the brand power, even today.

 

[Captain Toad]

....and why would they even need to announce this? I hate when publishers put out a release like this, just to pat themselves on the back. Seems like a cheap marketing ploy to get the series in the public eye before a sale.

It's not cheap. It's just smart marketing.

If anything is cheap, it's when companies start refusing to reveal sales numbers when they are low.

I've always appreciated Nintendo for this. Whether it's the Wii U or the Switch, they won't hide their numbers or try to spin them to look like something they aren't.

 

[LazyParrot]

....and why would they even need to announce this? I hate when publishers put out a release like this, just to pat themselves on the back. Seems like a cheap marketing ploy to get the series in the public eye before a sale.

Is that really what happened here? As far as I can tell all Sega did was release a quarterly financial report, which they're required to do by law. It's not their fault some dude went over the numbers and decided to turn them into an article.

 

[Thief1987]

....and why would they even need to announce this? I hate when publishers put out a release like this, just to pat themselves on the back. Seems like a cheap marketing ploy to get the series in the public eye before a sale.

You wonder why they showed sales to investors in their financial report? Hm, really, why?

 

[Mr Moose]

....and why would they even need to announce this? I hate when publishers put out a release like this, just to pat themselves on the back. Seems like a cheap marketing ploy to get the series in the public eye before a sale.

You've been conditioned to not want sales numbers or something?
It's a financial report.

 

[bender]

....and why would they even need to announce this? I hate when publishers put out a release like this, just to pat themselves on the back. Seems like a cheap marketing ploy to get the series in the public eye before a sale.

 

[adamsapple]

....and why would they even need to announce this? I hate when publishers put out a release like this, just to pat themselves on the back. Seems like a cheap marketing ploy to get the series in the public eye before a sale.

These numbers are from their fiscal report.

 

[Labadal]

630k for Persona, 510k for Like A Dragon.

I found it interesting that they now include the Judgment games with the Like A Dragon Series.