| Sal.Paradise said: Alright, so we were arguing about slightly different things. So do you think it is more likely to reach 1 mil total in real world figures or not, if you had to guess? I get that last argument and I bet it was a factor in its sales, but not a big one. Tearaway is rated highly and released in a barren period for Vita (which is, like, all the time in the west) but we know how that game sold. And since you mentioned YS, I bet that isn't lighting the world on fire sales-wise either, yet it's in a similar situation to P4G. And if you're saying P4G being one of the few JRPGs on Vita helped it sell the numbers it did, I think the audience for the type of JRPG Persona is is even stronger on PS3 than it is on Vita, even with more competition on the system. (You can look at 'competition' another way, those JRPGs that came before on PS3 have etablished the audience for games like Persona on the system, and upcoming titles like Zestiria will ensure JRPG gamers stay active on the system, whereas P4G had to do all the heavy lifting itself on Vita barring double digit selling otaku games). |
Hmm. I think it's going to be awfully close. I do think, like you say, that the series has grown in popularity (again, ironically, since it was pretty massive in Japan on the PS1).
But I think to get to 1 million it's going to need digital + shipped numbers, yeah.
Yeah, I understand the established audience argument and that's definitely a part of it. I think the established audience is probably, ironically, falling off on PS3 as the system gets older though. At least in Japan, I think more and more people are migrating to 3DS & Vita. I hope that Zesteria and Persona 5 will keep the userbase there, but I'm wondering if Zesteria is even going to sell less than Xillia 2.
What I'm saying is, I think people who wouldn't normally have bought JRPG's or maybe would have bought them but not a Persona game, picked up P4G if they got a Vita. It probably attracted a wider audience than the IP would have alone.
Anyway, maybe this whole argument will be decided for us anyway. After all, Atlus is SEGA now. Which means Persona 5 won't come to the west because SEGA.
Do you think it will sell 1 million in Japan alone? ololol.
