Persons are very keen to beat a pair hundred flooring of Tartarus. At the least, that is what the gross sales figures for Persona 3 Reload recommend. Atlus introduced earlier right this moment that its gussied-up remake of the primary modern-style Persona recreation has bought 1,000,000 copies internationally since its launch on February 2, making it the quickest promoting recreation within the firm’s historical past. It is all all the way down to Koromaru, when you ask me.Â
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For reference, Atlus introduced again in 2021—marking Persona’s twenty fifth anniversary—that the sequence had then bought a complete of 15 million copies throughout all its variations throughout its lifetime. For a single entry within the sequence to do in a single week a fifteenth of what each different recreation did in 25 years is, nicely, fairly spectacular, when you ask me.
Atlus is clearly using a few waves right here. At the start is the sport’s simultaneous worldwide launch. Persona has been a strictly PlayStation sequence for ages, with Atlus stubbornly refusing to just accept that folks on different platforms additionally wished to be magical Japanese teenagers. It has been PS-only for therefore lengthy, the truth is, that I am nonetheless a bit shocked every time I scroll by my Steam library and see Persona 3 Transportable, 4 Golden, and 5 Royal all lined up as if it is not a violation of the fundamental order of the universe. That P3R is hitting PC, Xbox, and PlayStation all on the identical time can not help however juice the numbers.
However regardless of the video games being locked up on PlayStation island for therefore lengthy, they have been constructing increasingly momentum with each launch. Persona 3—the unique one—established the sequence’ present mannequin, Persona 4 gathered extra followers for the trigger, and it actually appears like Persona 5 lastly pushed the video games over into one thing resembling mainstream reputation.Â
That momentum solely constructed as these video games got here to non-PlayStation platforms in dribs and drabs over the previous few years, and now it appears like Atlus is cashing in its gathered chips with P3R’s stonking efficiency.
I am wanting to play it. Heather Newman scored the sport 89% in our Persona 3 Reload assessment, calling it “fabulous, engrossing, and ridiculously deep.” By all accounts, it sounds prefer it’s earned these gross sales.Â
