Persona 5 did well for the series being of its biggest hit. With Persona 5 Scramble Atlus and Sega both hoped as a direct sequel it would get the same success. This didn’t as the numbers are in and it seems this sequel is scramble to catch up to other games in the franchise.
The poor number are bad but not surprising. While it shares P5 name and is a direct sequel this is not a JRPG but a hack and slash game. With that being the case we would be getting die hard fans must everything p5 related but not the general p5 audience.
At the same time we are only looking at the first week so fans of the franchise might want a little bit longer before we say this didn’t work. I will put the info and graph below.
“Persona 5 Scramble sold 115,995 units on the PS4 and an additional 46,415 units on the Nintendo Switch, making for a total of 162,410 units sold at retail. The Switch version accounted for 29% of the game’s sales, while the PS4 version accounted for 71%.
Unsurprisingly, these figures are nowhere near sales of the original Persona 5, despite the fact that Atlus is marketing Persona 5 Scramble as a direct sequel to that game. (Persona 5 sold 344,854 units in its first week back in 2016, between the game’s PS4 and PS3 versions.) Despite its marketing campaign, the fact remains that Persona 5 Scramble is a very different kind of game, emphasizing hack-and-slack gameplay over school-life simulation and turn-based combat.”
Article:https://www.siliconera.com/persona-5-scramble-might-be-a-sequel-but-sales-dont-reflect-that/
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