Sega Sammy has released their Fiscal Year Ending March 2022 first quarter (consisting of April, May, and June 2021) financial results today. As with the results for last fiscal year, Sega has an outline for specific game series which notably performed during that quarter, including Persona.
According to the financial results, the Persona series sold approximately 400k units worldwide (including digital and physical sales) in April, May, and June 2021.
As reported in May 2021, the Persona series had achieved 3 million copies sold from March 2020 to March 2021.
Unlike last year, the main Persona titles responsible for the FY 2022 Q1 sales have not been listed. For the quarters last fiscal year, the games were typically:
- Persona 4 Golden (June 2020)
- Persona 5 Royal (October 2019)
- Persona 5 (September 2016)
- Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers (February 2020)
Sega Sammy states that the first quarter of FY Ending March 2022 had a strong performance in their entertainment content business, exceeding their expectations partly because of the sales of new titles and repeat sales.
Previous Sales Milestones
Recently, the PC version of Persona 4 Golden on Steam reached 1 million copies sold as of June 30, 2021, a year after the game’s release on June 13, 2020.
The Persona series had reached over 15 million copies sold worldwide as of June 30, 2021. Alongside this milestone was Persona 5 Royal reaching 1.8 million copies sold.
Persona 5 Strikers had sold approximately 1.3 million copies worldwide as of April 27, 2021.
To see more information on Persona series sales data, see our latest graphic for overall series sales in Japan as of February 2020.