Persona 5 vanilla alone sold 3.2 million copies as of 2018.

The Persona 5 series (including spinoffs) passed 10 million as of December 2023.

Persona 5 vanilla + Royal sold 7.2 million as of April 2023.

All of this points to Persona 5 Royal selling 3.5-4 million copies in the last 2 years~

Combined Persona 5 vanilla +Royal sales: 10.7+ million. Huge.

You can see the huge spike in sales for Persona 5 Royal when it finally got a multiplatform release. Despite being on Gamepass the game sold more in it's launch window than the PS4 in it's launch window. This should be a perfect example as to why 3rd party publishers are doing multiplatform for most if not all their games.
I also have a gut feeling the Switch version outsold the PS4 version or is close behind it. I wonder if Sega/Atlus regretted not doing a Switch version for Persona 3 Reload.

Yeah being locked to only the Switch didn't help SMTV much in the early years. I hope eventually it can at least leg to 3m now with Vengeance.

Why would they regret not making a Switch version when Persona 5 itself proves that late ports can still sell heaps? They'll eventually get those extra sales from Switch 2 in addition to platform holders's money, and a ton of double/triple dippers. Why change a strategy that is obviously working?

PC and Switch versions of Persona 5 Royal may indeed beat the PS4+PS5 versions, because many Persona fans only bought the original and refuse to fall to Atlus's greed. Atlus didn't offer an upgrade path from vanilla Persona 5, or from Royal PS4 to PS5. They're the greediest motherfuckers in the business. I finished Persona 5 on PS4 and skipped not just Persona 5 Royal, but also Metaphor, because I know they have an "ultimate" version in the works that won't offer an upgrade path.

Also Metaphor did 2m in 8 months. Normally JRPGs are frontloaded, but it sold half in the first month and half in the next 7 months. I think it is doing quite well.

There is potential for the sales to be greater. Becoming an ATLUS 2nd pillar over SMT.

But I have a feeling ATLUS will release SMT6 on multiple consoles next time, and that could bring SMT back to 2nd.

Metaphor will beat mainline SMT and it won't even be close. With a Switch 2 version added, 5 million sales lifetime could be the floor.

But yes, SMT6 might change this if they increase the budget (especially marketing) and scope.

That’s probably the case. I haven’t played Pharaoh either to be fair, the newest one I played is still Rome II. Though I also have no interest in Warhammer, still hoping one day they’ll do a Medieval III.

Persona 5 (Vanilla) sold about 1.64 million on PS4 and 0.24 million on PS3. Those are also impressive numbers considering the state of the series at the time and how old PS3 was.

I think Persona 5 (Vanilla and Royal) is sitting at over 10 million now according to this site which means Vanilla is probably a bit under tracked. 

Persona 6 is going to be huge. It will probably also sell over 10 million units lifetime from not only its vanilla release but its inevitable enhanced release. 

I don't think its certain that Atlus will port their games to Switch 2. They just announced Persona 4 on an Xbox showcase with no Switch 2 support. Atlus mostly make Shin Megami Tensei games for Nintendo platforms and the rest is PS, Xbox and PC only, for the most part.

Nothing makes you feel older than when you see a headline like this, and you instantly think it has something to do with the Genesis.