SEGA Sammy made a minor mistake once they printed their newest “Administration Assembly” doc detailing the varied monetary points of the corporate. Most of it was normal stuff, resembling forecasting the subsequent monetary yr, however on web page 25 there was an intriguing screw-up: gross sales knowledge for 11 of their video games.
The information has now been faraway from the PDF, changed by a clean panel that merely says “Some content material is at present below adjustment.”
However the Web is a tough place to erase data from, so throughout the first 0.000001 seconds, folks had already taken a screenshot and unfold it far and huge. And right here it’s:
| Recreation | FY20 | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | Complete |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Persona 5 Royal (Together with Remaster/Multiplat model) (Doesn’t embrace P5 OG) | 1,030,000 | 700,000 | 350,000 | 1,820,000 | 1,600,000 | 1,750,000 | 7,250,000 |
| Sonic Frontiers | – | – | – | 3,200,000 | 760,000 | 610,000 | 4,570,000 |
| Workforce Sonic Racing | 1380,000 | 870,000 | 520,000 | 310,000 | 200,000 | 220,000 | 3,500,000 |
| Complete Conflict: THREE KINGDOMS | 2,100,000 | 410,000 | 230,000 | 230,000 | 170,000 | 70,000 | 3,210,000 |
| Yakuza: Like a Dragon | 450,000 | 720,000 | 410,000 | 240,000 | 680,000 | 360,000 | 2,860,000 |
| Sonic Superstars | – | – | – | – | 1,810,000 | 620,000 | 2,430,000 |
| Complete Conflict: WARHAMMER III | – | – | 960,000 | 580,000 | 420,000 | 380,000 | 2,340,000 |
| Shin Megami Tensei V (together with Vengeance) | – | – | 990,000 | 150,000 | 10,000 | 960,000 | 2,110,000 |
| Persona 3 Reload | – | – | – | – | 1,220,000 | 850,000 | 2,070,000 |
| Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth | – | – | – | – | 1,180,000 | 480,000 | 1,660,000 |
| Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Title | – | – | – | – | 740,000 | 220,000 | 960,000 |
Primarily based on this knowledge, it’s very simple to know why SEGA remains to be attempting to trip the Persona 5 gravy practice. 7.2m copies offered throughout the final 5 monetary years could be very spectacular. If we embrace the vanilla Persona 5 (final reported in 2018 as being 3.2m copies) then Persona 5 is over the 10m mark.
One other notable sport that has quietly been performing some work is Workforce Sonic Racing, shifting 3.5m copies. No surprise there’s a sequel scheduled for this yr.
I additionally seen that Complete Conflict: Warhammer 3 have been surprisingly low (2.3m), even in contrast towards Complete Conflict: 3 Kingdoms. true, 3 Kingdoms had a number of further years, however I believed the Warhammer license would have counted for extra. Maybe 3 video games in that sub-series was simply an excessive amount of.
What do you guys assume? Do any of those numbers stand out to you?