Persona 5 Sells Through 70% of its Original Shipment on Day 1 in Japan

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JRPGfan said:

Hiku said:

So Persona 5 now claims the #1 spot as the best selling Persona game in Japan on opening week. (Even just counting the PS4 version alone.)

[PS4] Persona 5 (Atlus, 09/15/16) – 264,793 (New)
[PS3] Persona 5 (Atlus, 09/15/16) – 72,794 (New)

Combined that makes for 337,587 units sold first week.

Couldn't have happened for a better game. :)

Assumeing digital copies (~18% or so?) its probably around 400k.

What Im curious about is how it sells world wide.

I hope persona ends up as popular as Final Fantasy some day.

I don't think this can happen to ANY JRPG series, at all. The only reason FF is a big thing worldwide at all, is Sony pushing it heavily during gen5. But the time of JRPG popularity on such a scale has passed - the gaming landscape is just too different.

This may be the best selling Persona game ever, but yeah, I don't expect the series to ever come close to FF.