Persona Series Sold 2.4 Million Copies From January to March 2024, 5 Million Copies Since April 2023, and 22 Million Copies Life to Date

[John Elden Ring]

Sega Sammy has released the company’s Fiscal Year Ending March 2024 (consisting of April 2023 to March 2024) Q4 financial results today. As with previous earnings reports, Sega has outlined the sales of their tentpole series, including Persona.

According to the financial results, the Persona series sold approximately 2.39 million units worldwide (including digital and physical sales) in January, February, and March 2024. This is in large part due to the release of Persona 3 Reload on February 2nd, which was the fastest selling Atlus title in the company’s history.

This makes for a total of 5.06 million copies sold of the Persona series in the Fiscal Year ended March 2024. 630k copies were sold between April and June 2023, 750k between July and September 2023, and 1.3 million sold between October and December 2023.

The Persona series has been experiencing a consistent level of growth year-to-year:

• April 2021 to March 2022: 1.3 million copies sold worldwide
• April 2022 to March 2023: 3.27 million copies sold worldwide (+1.97 million copies compared to previous year)
• April 2023 to March 2024: 5.06 million copies sold worldwide (+1.79 million copies compared to previous year)

Previous Persona Sales Milestones​

In March 2024, Atlus announced that the Persona series had sold over 22 million units worldwide. As of December 2023, the Persona 5 series (including Persona 5, Persona 5 Royal, Persona 5 Strikers, and Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight) has sold over 10 million copies worldwide.

Source - Persona Central

 

[Wing84]

Really nice to see. The series is a good in betweener/pallet cleanser for me.

I know it's not what the fanbase wants, but I'd love for the series to move away from children protagonists, better writing (the anime tier writing is a bit much for non-anime consuming people) and maybe half the length of the games.

 

[mibu no ookami]

That Persona 3 Reload performed anywhere in the same region as FF7 Rebirth is a massive indictment on Square Enix...

 

[BroodCorp]

A Hollywood project eagerly awaits. I could see a green light happening this year.

 

[Yurinka]

Sega's report includes Newzoo gaming market data (split by region) updated as of May 2024. Data shows that excluding Japan all the other regions did grow a little bit during 2023, remaining basically flat and total global revenue of $184.0B:

Sega's plans for the current FY:

 

[anonpuffs]

Really nice to see. The series is a good in betweener/pallet cleanser for me.

I know it's not what the fanbase wants, but I'd love for the series to move away from children protagonists, better writing (the anime tier writing is a bit much for non-anime consuming people) and maybe half the length of the games.

Ain't gonna happen fam. Japanese media is obsessed with youth.

 

[Dabaus]

So multiple games on all platforms sold less that ff7 rebirth which is on one platform, on top of being out longer?

 

[Dabaus]

That Persona 3 Reload performed anywhere in the same region as FF7 Rebirth is a massive indictment on Square Enix...

No it’s not. Persona series, so all of their games on All platforms sold at or around ff7 rebirth.

 

[Banana]

Really nice to see. The series is a good in betweener/pallet cleanser for me.

I know it's not what the fanbase wants, but I'd love for the series to move away from children protagonists, better writing (the anime tier writing is a bit much for non-anime consuming people) and maybe half the length of the games.

Shin Megami Tensei?

 

[quest4441]

Persona has a major pedo and weird sexual fetish communities that play it. I have to take a bath after reading Persona discussions on reset era

 

[Nhomnhom]

So multiple games on all platforms sold less that ff7 rebirth which is on one platform, on top of being out longer?

People seem to have no idea how well Final Fantasy does compared to other JRPG series these days.

 

[Wing84]

Shin Megami Tensei?

It has the same issue as Persona. From what I can tell, either the writing is clearly not from people who's education and/or passion is in writing/storytelling or they dumb down the dialogue to reach a wider audience. It's the common issue I have with videogames and anime.

It sucks that script/dialogue writing in videogames is as complex as cartoon shows for teens. it's the one thing that hasn't evolved in videogames. Though I do think The Last of Us and sometimes in FromSoft's souls games will have moments of really good dialogue.

 

[Banana]

It has the same issue as Persona. From what I can tell, either the writing is clearly not from people who's education and/or passion is in writing/storytelling or they dumb down the dialogue to reach a wider audience. It's the common issue I have with videogames and anime.

It sucks that script/dialogue writing in videogames is as complex as cartoon shows for teens. it's the one thing that hasn't evolved in videogames. Though I do think The Last of Us and sometimes in FromSoft's souls games will have moments of really good dialogue.

You should check out Strange Journey.

 

[Luffy123]

These aren’t even good numbers lmfao