Japanese Charts: Persona 5 Royal On Switch Steals Hearts

Anime, tentacles and kaijus go hand-in-hand in Japan. :3

Before anyone compares the difference between the switch and ps5 sales, you have to remember when it came out on ps4 it sold 201k in its first week, most playstation players have played it already especially in Japan, but still those switch figures are decent but is it enough to persuade atlus to make persona 6 multi platform, we will have to wait and see.

PS5 sales is still good. 🙂
Japanese gamers should give more appreciations for the 3rd party cartoonish PS5 games since they are good enough to play as cartoonish games on Nintendo Switch.

@UltimateOtaku91 That's just one week, in one region for P5 Royal sales. Lets see how it continues to perform, also I'm now curious to see how it does in NA and how the total sales by platform breakdown will look.

@Anti-Matter I think if a game is good it will get the recognition it deserves. But the key is that it is good in the first place.

@Slowdive well it all depends on how demanding persona 6 is in terms of hardware. Most games like tales of Arise and scarlet nexus didn't come to switch because of the hardware. Same could be said about persona 6, this is why I hope Nintendo's next console is somewhat as powerful as the series S, would love to have the ability to play persona 6 handheld as well.

I gave PS5 a good try and am now moving on at 10 hours. It's not for me. Recognise it as a really good game and well put together experience. I'm mid 40s so some of the story outside the dungeon aspects didn't resonate with me and felt a bit weird to play out. No criticism. The story just wasn't for me.

Being old school and favouring turn based combat, I liked how PS5 evolved the traditional format with things like baton pass and choices as to whether you went for a KO or hold up.

@Bizzyb that 201k I mentioned was also just one weeks sales from Japan, I think now though there's more digital sales than physical so maybe with its closer once digital sales have been added up.

Series X is competing with New 2DS LL and PlayStation 4.

Congratulations on passing 2M units, PS5. (surprised it didn't get mentioned in the article. hmm.)

Guess Japan just isn't into the Rabbids?

@Slowdive which third party game on switch sold as much as good as Persona 5 did on Playstation?
Monster Hunter does not apply of course

@Slowdive I know it and I dont think it's a good example at least if you'd like to compare Momotaro with Persona.
Say that doesn't exist a successful game like Persona did on Playstation, despite switch's sales in Japan and in the west.

Guys Mario + Rabbids release date in Japan is on 2 December.

@PikaPhantom 2 December release date Japan

2DS is still on the charts? I'd love to get one of those, ha. Prices are so wild for them right now.

@Mythra Yup, probably because Nintendo is the publisher in Japan and not Ubisoft. And Nintendo wants a new December release.

@AlanaHagues Sparks of Hope has not released yet in Japan. It debuts December 2. Probably because Nintendo publishes the game there instead of Ubisoft. So no wonder it's not in the top 10

@Tober Right, December is better with Persona last week Bayonetta this week and Pokemon in November it got a bit too much

@UltimateOtaku91 You might have a point there about digital sales. I think Persona 5 Royal NA sales will give us a much clearer picture as NA seems to have been much more Persona crazy than the other regions, especially when it came to Switch port begging.

I do hope persona has steady sales.

I really hope that Persona 6 is multi platform after all this because there would be no point in putting the series on every platform and then going back to being exclusive for Sony.

@Duncanballs
It's definitely not for everyone. I personally loved the game but it's a huge time investment to playthrough and the story tends to drag on a bit more than it should.

Mario+rabbids not in the top 10?….

Everything not made by Japanese is cursed when it comes out in Japan… it’s an absolutely amazing strategy game with mario. And it sells less than 5000 in Japan….. Why did it not sell…?

Edit: thank you commenters for clearing it up that Mario+Rabbids hasn’t released yet . Sigh of relief. I would like it to be a trilogy, loved the first, loving the 2nd. And for it to be a trilogy it probably has to do well in Japan too.

@alanahagues

@Friendly it's not out in Japan yet

I mean, I would imagine any PS5 owner might have P5 or P5R from the PS4 at this point. Although, second place for P5R for the Switch right behind Splatoon 3, that's pretty good.

@Friendly @Nintendolife, Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope isn't out for Switch in Japan until December 2nd.

@Friendly It will sell when it actually releases.

From what I understand, the PS5 version has very little upgrade from it's PS4 version. Sales figures make sense it would sell better on Switch.

But I think the P3P and P4G releases will sell better on Switch.

What will happen with P6? Multi-platform, except Switch 🤣

Nintendo either can't, or won't, produce the Lite.

My money is on the latter, they won't. Primarily because the OLED and OG already sell well. Might as well ignore the genius, Michael Pachter.

Kinda surprise Gran Turismo 7 made it back on the chart, Jim Ryan really needs to bring that game to Steam soon so I don't have to get a PS5. The only way I would buy Sony games from now on is if they are PC bound. To me my Steam Deck is now a PS Vita successor.

Must be tough on Sony losing ground on their home turf month after month. I guess it could be worse, the PS5 could be selling as bad as the Series S/X over there.

@FX29 what kind of story is it? I'm a fan of Xenoblade but I struggle with other JRPGs and I'm worried I wouldn't enjoy Persona 5...

Persona 5R on Switch deserves better sales even if Atlus are greedy douches that dont offer PS5 owners any form of upgrade for basically the same game.

@Otoemetry
Well I can't say much since that would spoil everything for you. But the basic plot of the game is essentially about a group of teenagers trying to change society in a positive way. To do this they go into a dream like world where they change a wicked person's heart by stealing their "treasure".

I maybe didn't sum that up the best but the story is interesting. I would say give it a shot, a friend of mine who isn't even into JRPGs ended up loving it.

@FX29 that's useful info, thanks!

@Tzara minecraft and Disney Dreamlight Valley and Just Dance 20xx all sell better than Persona on Switch, and all sell better than most PS and Switch games to be honest.

@UltimateOtaku91 not only that the base P5 sold 300k first week while P5R sold 400k within 1 month on PS4. Atlus also updated P5 series up till march 22 sold 7.2m which PS was the main contributing factor. Game just hit saturation on the console family.

@Duncanballs That’s funny, I’m mid 40s too, it’s my first Persona game and I dislike the dungeon segments. Love the slow, low-key real life Tokyo parts. The dungeons look considerably worse or outdated, and the whole superhero/Persona thing is quite silly. Overall I am pleasantly surprised though.

And on topic: Aren’t all those numbers really low?