Persona 5 Royal is off to a healthy start in Japan, where it's immediately jumped to the top of the software sales charts (as tracked by Famitsu). A PlayStation 4 exclusive, Royal apparently sold over 200,000 physical copies in its debut week, outpacing its closest competitor, Luigi's Mansion 3, by around 50,000 units. Both titles released on the 31st October in Japan.
It's quite an impressive result for what is essentially an expanded re-release of Persona 5. The original sold close to 340,000 copies across PS4 and PS3 when it launched back in 2016, so while there has been a noticeable drop-off, it's perhaps not as big a fall as you'd expect.
Persona 5 went on to become the series' best selling game by some distance -- it had shipped 2.2 million units by May last year. As such, it'll be interesting to see how Persona 5 Royal fares once it's released here in the West.
Did you expect to see Persona 5 Royal top the Japanese charts? Steal your heart in the comments section below.
[source gematsu.com]
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For what is essentially the same game with multiple improvements and extras, it has done fairly well for itself. From what I have seen, I have never seen remakes or the like normally do that well in Japan, mind you, that could just be the games I've seen I suppose.
Either way, a release date over here would be nice.
P5's artstyle still amazes me.
Nice. I'm happy to see, that P5R is selling well.
That’s some good news. Although I gotta admit, I’m still thinking whether I should still get this when it’s released outside of Japan. I loved Persona 5 but I’m not quite sure if I wanna go through that all again with Royal. Makoto is still best girl though.
@BarefootBowser my first run took 91 hours
Wow. Did not see that coming.
Great game. I would not play it again, but if into jRPGs - and not played it - a must buy.
Wasn’t P5 confirmed as selling over 3 million more recently?
Great result either way, and LM3 is certainly no slouch as far as competition is concerned, hopefully this incentivizes Atlus to unveil the Western release date.
@BarefootBowser Took me 115 hours to finish Persona 5. Not an optimized run, mind you, just my first playthrough.
How will I cope until the Western release
@BarefootBowser
You got at least 100 hours to go. (I'm not kidding lol)
Amazing experience though. Took me 3 months from Oct-Dec to beat and by the end, i was sad to see it end. You will love it.
@PhantomXIII
Makoto was my girl from day one:p
@PhantomXIII
I read that in Chris Tucker's voice (your profile pic) and it made it so much more hilarious hahahaha.
Can't wait until the western release.
I took a look at the official page, even though I can't read Japanese. But I do understand tarot.
And what I found interesting, was that it seems they've gotten rid of Sae as Judgement, which kind of makes sense. I understand why she's the Confidant for that card in the original, but she doesn't really add anything until very late.
And with two new characters, but only one "missing" card in the original (XXI, The World), it does stand to reason that SOMEONE would have to go, in order to make room. Still, the two new card designs they show are...odd. Let's just put it that way.
I'm also curious to see who and what they added to the Compendium. The list of the different spirits, from So. Many. Mythologies. was already nothing to sneeze at, and if they expanded that, too, then it might just be one of the biggest such lists in a Triple-A video game.
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