The main reason for that software gap is due to Americans buying more games (and them buying more 360's). For example, if Europeans bought more games than Americans, PS3 would be comfortably ahead.

Quite frankly my dear, I dont give a damn.

No, we're not.  Or at least, I wasn't.  Since this argument was brought up in the first place about potential PS3 million sellers in the database yet to come and that's why I doubted Persona 5 would get there.  I suppose it might well ship + digital a million, but that's not what I was referring to.  It's why people like Barozi were bringing up earlier in the thread that certain 360 games are missing European numbers because again, it's to do with database tracking.

@ bold, that was my point about opportunity.  Persona 4 Golden is the highest rated game on Vita.  It was the only JRPG released in 2012 for the system and only really had a challenge in 2013 from Ys at the end of the year and I suppose the downloadable Atelier games.  That kind of circumstance is going to net it more sales when people have a shiny new piece of hardware and want some of the best games for it.  It's going to be less of a factor for PS3 which will be in its 8th/9th year of life by the time P5 releases.

If you didn't you wouldn't have replied.

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). 

It was more of a Dwayne Johnson telling Michael Cole that it doesnt matter what he thinks.

If you have numbers to support your stance, by all means show them.

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.

How ironic when you don't have numbers yourself.

Global Software by Platform

Global 

Oh?

Show me a better set of worldwide sales numbers.