People have been begging for Persona 5 to release on non-PlayStation platforms for what feels like an eternity, so it's no surprise to see Persona 5 Royal rack up some impressive sales numbers just over a month from its re-release.
The exquisite RPG has quickly sold more than 1 million copies across PS5, Nintendo Switch, PC, and Xbox Series. Combined with the sales numbers it already had on PS4, Royal now sits at over 3 million units in total.
For years, it felt like Persona 5 would never see the light of day on devices outside of Sony's stable, but it's clear that Atlus is no longer the developer and publisher that we used to know — probably thanks to the fact that parent company SEGA is keen to spread its products across as many platforms as it can these days. It'll be interesting to see if the inevitable Persona 6 ends up being a multiplatform project right from the start.
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Also half of the entire persona franchise sales (16.8 million) are from persona 5 games, that's going to be hard to follow. Persona 6 basically has to be multi platform from the get go and hopefully the next warriors style game has the entire persona series cast in it.
Shoot with the amount of port begging for this game in particular it would have been kind of sad to see it not do well! It feels like Switch owners in particular were literally frothing at the mouth for P5R to get on Switch.
Glad to see their prayers were finally answered. P5R is a once in a generation type of game. There is simply very little that can compete with it so I'm happy more folks finally got the chance to play it.
I'm going to guess a miniscule amount of these new sales are from Xbox, partly because JRPG fans tend to gravitate to other consoles, but mostly because Game Pass kills sales. It's good to see the game getting more success, though I still do not like how Atlas left their most loyal fans out in the cold with the way they handled the PS5 version.
Not gonna lie I almost bought it for Switch even though I have Persona 5 and P5 Royal on PS4. This is a win overall for fans of the series!
Safe to say the Switch got the bulk of those sales, likely followed by Steam in second place.
I'm betting these years late ports of this 2020 re-release of a game from 2017 still managed to outsell Soul Hackers 2, lol.
The Switch port charted pretty high on various websites near launch, so I'm guessing it enjoyed the bulk of sales to date.
Cool.
But SMT should really get the multiplatform treatment next. Though I expect it to be relegated to the sidelines even more for the watered down younger sibling that is Persona with this news.
And stop trying to apply the Persona style to stuff like Soul Hackers while you're at it.
I think ive bought it now 4 times on Playstation lol
At least a quarter mil of those sales were just me. (Hides Morgana plushie)
I am truly happy the game is doing well for it's niche genre.
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