I guarantee 75-85 percent of all of persons 5 sales all from ps4 and Ps5. In fact persona was this niche franchise UNTIL ps4 and covid hit at the same time. Then they released a complete version later on down the line. Then RELEASED it a THIRD time to be multiplatform.
Persona 5(PS4) release dates
JP:
Sept 2016
WW:
April 2017
Persona 5 Royal release dates(PS4)
JP:
Oct 2019
WW:
Mar 2020
Persona 5 Royal release dates(Switch/PC/Xbox/PS5)
Simultaneous release:
Oct 2022
Persona 5 + Royal
7.2M copies sold as of April 2023
On its own, Persona 5 (and Royal) has sold 7.2 million copies (as of April 2023), making it by far the best-selling entry in the series.
Snopping around, we can start with this:
Persona 5 Royal Re-release 1M in a month(Nov 2022)
The remastered version of Persona 5 Royal was released for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows PC and Steam on October 21st. A little more than a month later, and Atlus has announced that the game has achieved over 1 million copies sold worldwide on the aforementioned platforms.
As of March 2023 it was
1.7M copies sold.
In Sega Sammy’s report, the updated sales number for Persona 5 Royal Remaster has been confirmed as 1.7 million copies as of March 2023.
I think we can be quite confident that the third release is majority PC+Switch sales.
Xbox is Xbox... And PlayStation already have been able to buy base P5 for years and P5R for 2(or 3 if you're in Japan).
We also have
SteamDB(yes I know) estimates to give us an inkling of how much the dual platforms(PC and Switch) are responsible for copies sold for this release(it's a lot).
For Persona itself we have another entry to help us legimitize these estimates a bit:
Persona 4 Golden which sold
1M on Steam after a year
I'm too lazy to fact check everything but an Installbase user also said this at the time:
Persona 5 didn't even hit the Top 10 for the Xbox and Playstation monthly NPD charts, and the Xbox and Playstation versions combined for only 21% of the boxed sales in the UK on the week of release.
Honestly, you can make the argument that the 1.7 million sold was virtually just Switch and Steam. Though we'll never know for sure unless Atlus gives us a platform breakdown.
Obviously the last part is a bit of exaggeration, but it's probably pretty close to the truth.
So to answer this question:
What were Persona 5s sales the third go around? Did they announce any? Did switch, pc, and Xbox add anything substantial to what was already sold on ps4/ps5? Idk so I’m genuinely asking.
Yes, the 2022 release of P5 has sold quite a decent amount from its third release, especially from non-PlayStation users(PC and Switch).
Of all the the JRPG series that have started doing more multi plat releases, they're the ones who benefitted the most from the strategy.
I think this is has been a long term strategy by Atlus/SEGA for quite some time now.
They've been releasing old and new Persona games on as many devices as possible to increase the brand visibility in preparation for a huge multiplat/worldwide simulatenous release for P6.
I think this is why SEGA
have this forecast for P6:
This is from the Q&A section from their current FY(July->September 2023)
Q: Is there a chance that, with its overseas popularity, the Persona series could sell 5 million copies in its first year?
A: By increasing the number of platforms it is available on and the regions it is released in, we have been increasing the sales of Persona 5. We believe that it would be possible for a major Persona title, such as a numbered release, to sell 5 million copies in its first year by releasing it on multiple platforms and simultaneously worldwide from day one.
Considering how Japanese execs usually do not like answering questions like this directly means that's probably their real internal expectation for the game. Which is a ludicrous number for almost any JRPG not named Final Fantasy.
Which is why, if you recall my previous post, I was saying I was looking forward to P6 and seeing if the success of P5 could be repeated. They've invested(and profited) a lot in this, but it's possible their biggest commercial success is yet to come
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