The NPD sales results—tracking U.S. game sales on a monthly basis—have been released for the month of April 2017, and Persona 5 was the second best selling game of last month.
April 2017 Sales
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe*
- Persona 5*
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild*
- MLB 17: The Show
- Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Mass Effect: Andromeda
- NBA 2K17
- Overwatch**
- Call of Duty: Black Ops II
- Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
- Horizon Zero Dawn
- Lego City Undercover
- Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + 2.5 Remix
- Lego Worlds
- Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege
- Battlefield 1
- For Honor
- Nier: Automata
- Minecraft
*Does not include digital sales
**Battle.net sales not includes
Additionally, according to NPD analyst Mat Piscatella, Persona 5 had the biggest debut for the Persona series by far in the United States:
Persona 5 experienced the strongest debut month for any title in Persona franchise history, with packaged dollar sales five times that of the previous best-selling debut, Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4.
Persona 5 was the best selling PS4 game for the month of April 2017:
- Persona 5*
- MLB 17: The Show
- Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands
- Horizon Zero Dawn
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + 2.5 Remix
- Mass Effect: Andromeda
- NBA 2K17
- Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
- Overwatch
Previously, it was reported that Persona 5 had debuted at the top of April 2017’s PlayStation Store downloads in North America, and that, as of April 5th, 2017, the game had shipped more than 1.5 million copies worldwide.
Persona 5 had topped the UK sales charts for its opening week, and it had also topped sales charts in Japan.
