Persona 5 has shipped 1.5 million as of April 4th

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Ka-pi96 said:

OdinHades said:
Seriously, I think it has surpassed the status of a niche game. I mean, GTA was also once a niche, when the first part released and nobody cared about it. Great games get more successful and by that grow out of their niche. It's useless to say P5 is niche just because other entries of the series before it were niche.

But whatever, that's just me I guess.

Maybe I'm wrong, but it kind of seems like you see calling it niche as an insult?

It seems to me it's actually the opposite. Congratulating this game for selling so well despite being a niche title is a huge compliment in my eyes.

It really  hinges on how people term niche , as an adjective , a niche product is one that targets a specific set of people , take jrpg's in general  where titles like Final Fantasy, Pokemon and Dragon Quest have broadened the audience over the years ,so it seems clear that starting with P4 and the momentum picking up with P4 Golden and continuing on with P5, Persona  broadened it's audience to the point that we now see it on the front page of magazines and the number of reviews it received is well above average , so it needs no longer to be called niche.

The other argument is what niche was it filling , or was it just another jprg series with medium sales in a genre where outside  the big players that I have previously mentioned, the best of the rest was the last time I checked, with 1.6 million sales Star ocean till the end of time.