Persona 5 Royal appears to have been a hit for SEGA, according to the company's latest financial report. Although it doesn't give us any numbers, the report states: "Persona 5 Royal began selling in the U.S. and Europe on March 31st, achieving record sales. While physical sales were restricted, the ratio of digital sales increased significantly and are remaining strong in this fiscal year."
The report is obviously referring to the impact of the coronavirus, but it sounds like Persona 5 Royal may have been picked up by a lot of people looking for a lengthy RPG to play while being stuck indoors. In any case, the publisher is clearly happy with the title's overseas performance.
Now we just have to wait for SEGA to finally announce that Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers is heading West...
[source segasammy.co.jp, via personacentral.com]
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They localized it, I bought it (as many other Italian, French, Germans etc). 😜
Hope Atlus will take this in consideration for the next gen.
This is great news for everybody which also means more JRPGs from Sega in the future especially during the start of next-gen consoles.
Already got my steelbook copy, will play after I finish tlou 2 and ghost of tsushima in the coming months
Great news! Hopefully P6 is well into development.
Maybe it's enough to satisfactorily keep it a PlayStation exclusive.
And before the angry pitchforks come out, yes I do believe it's one of the few franchises that feel as though it belongs on PlayStation, it feels at home there.
That and the constant Switch beggers filled with profanity and entitlement annoy me, so I'd keep it away from them out of spite.
@GADG3Tx87 It'd be great if it stayed as a PS exclusive since it's always been a Playstation brand and Switch has SMT V which I am anticipating. Also yeah the Switch beggars are really annoying.
I'm kinda daydreaming there's an announcement of P6 for PS5 like they did back then but I'm pretty sure that's a long way ahead
Will definitely get this when it drops in price. I thought it was a bit cheeky to release it full price considering it’s an “enhanced” version, albeit a very good one.
It’s the highest rated PS4 exclusive. Not surprised it’s doing so well
@GADG3Tx87 I own a Switch and believe me I lost my breath when Joker was announced for Smash because I had already beat Persona 5 & I couldn’t believe it was happening. That said, I believe Persona should stay exclusive to PlayStation. That’s all I can say. And is it right to call any console fanbase annoying when all of them are guilty of begging for games?
@Nightcrawler71 It’s worth it, but yeah wait for a discount if you’ve already played the original. I got mine $10 off the listed price. It has a ton of QoL improvements and it’s easier to platinum in one play through because you don’t have to worry about filling the Persona compendium.
I won’t spoil the fun for you, but I beat it the other day and I gotta say... the final boss was one of the best final boss fights I’ve ever experienced in a JRPG.
@wiiware Just a thought... why not play P5R first? You still have a while before those games come out. I just finished it and will start FF7R after I finish Dragon Quest XIS. Unless your backlog is big
Persona 5 Royal and Bloodborne are the 2 games that make the PlayStation 5 the obvious choice for me next gen ! 2 of my favorite games are only available on PS
@AzlanWake13 Well it's taken... pretty long to say anything about SMT V so yeah you're right on that
Love this game! I thoroughly enjoyed having platted this.
Meanwhile I'm just waiting to hear even a chirp about Shin Megami Tensei 5.
@Akurusu Still playing ff7 remake, I don't think I can play and finished 100+ hours game before tlou 2 come out . I usually play games slowly and looks in to every nooks and crannies so 100+ hours game can be 150+ hours for me lol.
I love Shin Megami Tensei and I wanted to like it but Persona 5 was a boring slog from what I played.
Looking forward to whats next for Persona. I find their games inspiring for real life with the feel good mood.
I still would had liked to see it on Switch, but I'm over it now. I've been all over P5R since I got it.
@Averagewriter Why does that matter considering every other mainline title became exclusive?
Looking good Joker indeed.
@Nepp67 We can’t call them annoying because then we’d be hypocrites. The players on here were begging for Astral Chain in articles that discussed it. Just let Persona stay exclusive.
@Akurusu We? Lol I like exclusives to stay exclusives(That especially goes for Nintendo and Microsoft) if they're in good practice like Sony and Nintendo. That's exactly why I bought a Switch. I didn't act like a manchild like those fanboys who decide to review bomb a game like Astral Chain cause "WAAH it didn't come to my system."
I've always felt that Nintendo would look to censor some of Persona's content. Maybe that's why it's remained an exclusive. Either way I'm excited for P6, hopefully sooner rather than later.
@Averagewriter Not an official copy of it though. The only way to play the original Persona 5 on PC was by using an emulator.
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