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Boutros on 20 June 2012
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Conegamer said:
Boutros said:
Conegamer said:
spurgeonryan said:
Train wreck said:
If an obscure game like persona 4 can cause the vita to double in sales, cant wait until an actual system seller graces the system. But even this is not going to be enough for the haters.


I thought that in Japan, the Persona series was pretty big?


It's not as big as Dragon Quest of Monster Hunter, but it's bigger than the Tales...Series, and you'd expect a new game in the series to sell around 200-300k FW, if not more.

What what what?!?

There's no way the Persona series is bigger than the Tales series...

Persona isn't that big in Japan.

Sales suggest otherwise. Looking at LT sales for the main 4 Persona games in Japan, they have an average of around 350k, not including remakes.

Tales of games LT sales are around 350k also, but there's much more up-and-down than Persona, and the real heavy-hitters came back in the PS days, with only Xilla breaking this trend.

I'd say if a brand new Tales games, and a brand new Persona game were to be released on the 3DS/Vita, both would acheive very similar sales numbers. So calling Persona 'obscure' is well off the mark. Certainly a remake of a Persona game is bigger than a remake of a Tales game, even if the main series isn't as popular overall (though it is gaining traction).

Even so the highest first week for a Persona game is 200k (both Persona 1 and Persona 4 reached that mark) and the lifetime record is just above 400k (Persona 1). The franchise has only sold 1.65 million in Japan (without Persona 4 Golden).

Tales of Vesperia was released on the 360 so of course it held back the sales and the same goes for Tales of Graces. They then got ported on the PS3 where they both sold as much as Persona 4 even though they were late ports. Tales of Xillia is not an exception. It's simply Namco finally not making a bad decision.

I would go as far as saying that the Tales of series is twice bigger than the Persona series in terms of revenue.