Persona 5 has shipped 1.5 million as of April 4th

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Faelco said:

leyendax69 said:

So the general consensus is that what matters most is genre and sales are irrelevant? not sure I fully agree with that but doesn't matter, the thread was already derailed enough :P I'm just happy P5 is doing well and I have yet to get my copy.

Sales are not irrelevant. Sales are a consequence of the nature of the game (genre, audience and quality, obviously), so a consequence of the game being niche or not. But they're not what makes a game niche or not. You can have a mainstream game selling less than a niche one, it doesn't inverse their nature. Even if Persona 5 ends up selling more than Titanfall 2 (which is possible), you can't say that P5 becomes more mainstream and TF2 becomes a niche game. They're just a really successful school-sim/dating-sim/visual novel/turn based JRPG (very niche genre) and a really unsuccessful First Person Shooter (mainstream genre).

(I'm not sure if it's "derailing the thread", we do talk about Persona sales and expectations)

From what you say they seem irrelevant to determine if a game is niche or not, at least. I think it was kinda derailing the thread since this is purely about the sales and not the status of the game/franchise, well I'm one of the people who started the topic so it's my fault