Persona 5 Royal's Release On Switch Contributes To Over 1 Million Total Sales

It's pretty much all I've been playing this last month, I'm 60 hours in and it's a great game to have on a portable system. The Switch port is really well done!

I think it's pretty safe bet to say that 60-70% of those sales are on Switch.

So half of the entire persona franchise sales were from persona 5 games, that's going to be hard to follow. Persona 6 basically has to be multi platform from the get go and hopefully the next warriors style game has the entire persona series cast in it.

Persona exclusivity on Playstation be like...

What a quinky-dink, I'm playing this right now (1st time) and I love it so far <3

Runs and looks amazing. Even on TV it looks pretty good and not all that worse than on the XBox Series X, but I guess that is the advantage with highly stylized graphics.

None too shabby. Need a price drop though when it’s on game pass.

for the quality of the game and across so many platforms P5 should have sold way more

Waiting a bit before buying. I still have to complete STV and Dragon Quest 11. My backlog is never ending

Remember when they said Persona 5 was not a game suitable for the Switch? and when Atlus released a poll asking if anyone would be interested? turns out if it runs well enough any game could be suitable for the Switch.

One of the very few examples where port-begging actually paid off?

Well deserved for such a great game! I picked up the Steelbook version for Switch Day 1 and a copy for PS5 on black Friday for half price. I'm really looking forward to Persona 3 & 4. Hopefully, with physical releases 🤞.

Pretty crazy how almost 50% of the Persona series is from Persona 5 and its spinoffs.

@Itachi2099

It's on GamePass so if they're counting gamepass players as "sales" then Xbox/PC will be miles ahead. You can't argue with free.

Plus the Switch port is pretty awful by all accounts. Low frame rate, low resolution, and fuzzy textures. It's a poor way to play the game.

@ramu-chan haven’t noticed a serious problems with the port myself, because I haven’t been looking for one. Plus being able to play it on a portable device is pretty great

@ramu-chan It's the same frame rate as the original release and while it doesn't look as good as the PS4 version it also doesn't need to being on a handheld console. As someone who's played through the game on PS4 twice (plus the vanilla P5) and is near the end of the Switch port now it's a very solid iteration of the game.

If anything I actually think the 60 FPS thing on other versions actually looks really wonky. A lot of the animations were kind of never meant to look as smooth as they do, leading things to just have this kind of uncanniness, and it really ruins the All Out Attack effect.

And people thought Persona 4 was huge back in the day…

@Lizuka It's a game very clearly inspired by anime which is done in 30 FPS. Anything above is bound to look and feel weird.

@ramu-chan my experience has been enjoyable. P5R runs, and looks great, on my Switch OLED. Haven’t really noticed much difference from the original PS4 version, a little less sharper maybe… it plays like P5R

I got P5 on PS3, P5R on PS4 and now P5R on Switch.

I'm very much looking forward to P4G on Switch as I've never played it. Only P4 from the PS3 store. Will be Switch for that.

@ramu-chan i'm sorry, but you sound like an offended Xbox fanboy.

They said "SALES", nobody in the industry includes gamepass numbers in "sales". If they were they'd announce how many players played the game, not sales.

Also, everything you said at the end about "low frame rate, low resolution, and fuzzy textures" is just straight up lies and hyperbolic nonsense.

@ramu-chan The framerate, afaik, is on par with the original PS4 release, and any visual downgrades aren't all that noticeable thanks to the hyper-stylized presentation.

Hardly a "poor" way to experience the game, but, then again, I've never felt the need to seek Digital Foundry's approval before I allow myself to enjoy a game.

@Jeronan why do you think windwaker still looks amazing to this day.

@ramu-chan

110+ hours in on the Switch, and it is wonderful to play this game where ever i want. It would honestly be kinda awful if I had to be stuck in front of a TV for that long; I doubt I would finish it.

As for the graphics: theyre wonderful on switch. Then again, I don't wet my pants at sub-60 frame rates.

¯\(ツ)/¯

@Olliemar28 The tagline says Persona 5 series surpasses 16m sales, but it’s the Persona series as a whole according to the article. Just a heads up.

@ramu-chan lol the Switch port is widely agreed to be not awful.

• Fast load times
• no actual frame rate issues [No not being 60 FPS doesn’t automatically qualify as “awful framerate” especially for a turn-based RPG/VN life simulator lol.]
• No audio quality issues
• No severe Bugs/crashes
• image quality more then suitable with no excessive blur/bad pop-in
• If you have the OLED the game looks amazing.
• Like the PS5/PC version you get all the Royal dlc [there was a big chunk] too except the Raidou one

You know the crap that actually matters for majority of Switch gamers

@ramu-chan That's not what the reviews says and I play it too, it's one of the best port ever made by Sega this year. Remember Atlus didn't want to do the job so Sega took over for the Switch. Usually the small guys don't let the big boss handle their job for them that's like an operator telling his supervisor to do the job for the operator but lazy Atlus refuse and so Sega had to do it themselves. This is not a good look for Atlus but a great achievement for Sega. If you're the contractor you're the one doing the job, not your boss.

The Switch port is amazing. I love this game.

@Itachi2099 Goodness looks like I touched a nerve. P5 is 4K/60 on the Series X and PS5. If you're happy playing at 810p/30 then great for you. And it's even lower resolution in handheld mode.

Personally I've been playing it on PC where is it's 4K/120 supersampled from 8K.

@ramu-chan Most people seem to be in agreement that the Switch port is a fine way to play the game. Maybe your standards are skewered due to your "3080 and 5900X" rig which demands "no compromises," but people, especially Switch players, are not that picky.

@PoeTheLizard Perhaps so. But it's still pretty poor that the Switch version isn't even 720p in portable mode given that this is at its core PS3 game.

I used to think that the longer the game the better, But 80+ hours just to finish the main story in P5 was just too much, just wanted the game to end already.

@ramu-chan if anyone got their nerves touched here it's you, because you're insecure that the "inferior" version that disgusts you so much sold the best even when compared to your "glorious 4k60" offerings ¯(ツ)/¯

@Itachi2099 Well okay, fine. That's not remotely true but honesty I can't be arsed to argue with you.

@Itachi2099 Maybe 40-50% of the sales come from switch, the game is also popular on steam.

@ramu-chan That's, Like, Your opinion man. The port is fine. Obviously not the best "fidelity" but nothing immersion breaking at least not for me.

I already have both p5 and p5r on ps4 but at some point down the line when a good sale comes out I will rebuy it again for pc as I have a steam deck and thanks to that it has reduced the amount of double dipping I have gotten on switch as even if I already owned the game on pc I would have bought it again on switch because of portability.

If I didn't own a steam deck then I would have bought it on switch as well as other games like Nier.

I’m playing this one now for the first time. I'm only on the second castle because I'm marinating this beautiful game. I haven't even got Pokémon yet. That's kind of a good thing, Cuz they need a few patches obviously. I picked up strikers a few months ago and haven't played it yet because I wanted to play this first. I think I'm in for a good ride. It looks like personas and Nintendo have a beautiful relationship now thanks to the sales.

Well deserved!!

I sincerely hope that SMT is also multiplat going forward.

Don't get me wrong, SMTV was perfectly fine to play on Switch, but it could look and run a lot better on more powerful hardware.

As much as I love this game, it's just too long for me to ever revisit. Still nice to see it come to Switch though; long overdue after that Joker in Smash reveal!

I picked up Persona 5 Royal from Gamestop over the weekend. Excited to dive into one of the most acclaimed JRPGs ever made.

Managed to get this game for $55 cad (Steelcase version), pretty good deal imo. (But then one of the Gamestop's near me had it for $45 cad for the standard version. Oh well, i'm happy with the steel case one.)

I'm gonna guess a small reason is from Joker getting into Smash. lol

Anyways yeah, bought Royal and spent over 100 hours making it to the end, and bought Strikers while it was on sale for $30.

Ready to see what 6 will be like.

As expected, when Atlus brought this game to Switch, people bought it. Currently playing it myself and loving it. Persona really belongs on portable systems imo.

@SilentHunter382 I’m the opposite, I skipped it for my PC and Deck. Glad I did too. Deck users an Reddit haven’t been too thrilled with due to Denovo‘s DRM taking Proton as an individual PC each different time you change.

Also, I didn’t care for how P4G sounded on my PC and Deck, so I’ll be buying it again on the Switch.

@BaldBelper78 P5R had a 50% Black Friday sale last week. Most people rather own the masterpiece than rent it on game pass.

@Olliemar28 And I was one of those to purchase the physical copy of P5R, so that's great to know.

It’s fantastic on Switch

Not bad from a game that was thought would never come to Switch.

@Bl4ckb100d plus pretty sure sega buying Atlus helped making the releases on more then just sony