Persona Series Reaches 23.5 Million Copies Sold Worldwide

Since the previous sales milestone for Persona in March 2024, the series has gone on to sell a whopping 23.5 million copies across the globe, with the sales including both physical and digital. In March, it was reported that the Persona series had sold 22.6 million copies. This was announced shortly after the release of Persona 3 Reload, which sold more than one million copies in less than a week. The Persona series is continuing to expand and become more popular, as it was once considered a niche series. However, as announced in Sega’s Annual Integrated Report for 2024, the report now includes the updated cumulative sales for the most notable IPs for Sega. This, of course, included Persona.

In this report, Sega says that the fast sales growth for both the Persona and Like a Dragon franchise can be attributed to the fact that the games were released on multiple platforms, as well as simultaneous worldwide releases. Not only that but remasters and spin-off titles have helped the franchises exponentially. This doesn’t come as much of a surprise, as for most gamers, Persona 5 and the other Persona 5 spin-offs really helped bring the franchise to the forefront and introduced people to the series as a whole.

In December 2023, the Persona 5 series alone sold over 10 million copies worldwide. Again, this is a statement that doesn’t come as much of a surprise, especially considering how many games are in the Persona 5 series alone. In total, there are five titles in the Persona 5 series, with another game called Persona 5: The Phantom X due to be released…