Persona 5 Royal Remastered has hit its first big sales milestone, with Atlus revealing that the game surpassed one million sales after just over a month on the market. The figure dwarfs the launch performance of the company's previous Persona rerelease, as the PC port of Persona 4 Golden managed around half a million sales over a similar period, though it didn't have the advantage of multiplatform availability enjoyed by Persona 5 Royal Remastered.
Persona 5 released for PS3 and PS4 in 2016, whereas its enhanced edition, Persona 5 Royal, originally launched as a PS4 exclusive three years later. The title's third release debuted on October 21 to overwhelmingly positive reviews, finally bringing the most popular Persona game to date to non-PlayStation platforms.
While Atlus did not provide a breakdown of Persona 5 Royal Remastered sales by platform, it's to be presumed that this 1 million sales milestone was largely driven by PC and Switch purchases. This is because the game already spent half a decade as a Sony exclusive and the Persona 5 Royal PS5 upgrade came at full price. Furthermore, the title's concurrent player peak on Steam (35,474) is similar to that of the Persona 4 Golden PC port (29,984). Both of those records were set within weeks of the games' releases, and P4G hit 500,000 sales on Valve's platform in its first month. This means that Persona 5 Royal Remastered at the very least managed to reach similar heights, thus accounting for half of the remaster's current sales, at a minimum.
The newly announced sales milestone is even more impressive in light of the fact that Persona 5 Royal Remastered hit Game Pass on day one, and anyone who played it using Microsoft's Netflix-like gaming service isn't counted in its first-month customer pool. That's not a small player group, either, seeing how Persona 5 Royal Remastered immediately debuted in the top 10 most-played titles on Game Pass and is still listed among its top 15 most-popular games as of December 1, over five weeks into its release.
The news of Persona 5 Royal Remastered's strong launch month performance comes just as Atlus is gearing up to rerelease the older two 3D Persona games. Namely, Persona 3 Portable and Persona 4 Golden remasters are both scheduled to debut on PC and current-generation consoles on January 19, 2023. The sixth numbered installment in the Shin Megami Tensei spinoff series is also in development, but seeing how Atlus has yet to share any concrete details on Persona 6, it's unlikely that the game will be launching prior to 2024, at the earliest.
Persona 5 Royal Remastered is available now on PC, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.