[h=1]Persona 5 moves 1.5M copies, days after worldwide release[/h]
[h=2]That’s a huge number for this once-niche RPG series[/h]
Atlus It seems like years of waiting around for
Persona 5 has done some good for the highly acclaimed role-playing game. Atlus announced that the game has shipped 1.5 million copies worldwide, only a few days after its launch in North America and Europe.
It’s important to remember the distinction between shipped and sold, but this is still a milestone for the Persona franchise. Atlus didn’t say how many of these copies went to North America and Europe specifically, but
Persona 5 reached 550,000 copies shipped in Japan alone
back in October. The game launched there on Sept. 15.
Putting
Persona 5’s worldwide shipment figure into perspective makes it more impressive. Atlus reported in
December 2013 that it had shipped more than 700,000 copies of
Persona 4 Golden, making it the biggest title in the Persona franchise at that time. The game first launched in Japan in early 2012, coming to North America later that year and Europe the following spring.
Persona 5 already became
the series’ fastest-selling game when it sold nearly 340,000 copies within its first three days at retail in Japan. With
strong reviews on both sides of the ocean and months of mounting interest, it looks like
Persona 5 will continue to increase the RPG franchise’s profile.