Sega and Atlus announced the sales ofPersona 5 The Royal(PS4,PS5) andPersona 5 Scramble The Phantom Strikers(PS4, PS5,Switch) each reached over 500,000 copies in Japan and Asia. The announcement was made following the PlayStation Partner Awards 2020 Japan Asia event, held on December 2. There,Persona 5 Royalwon a Partner Award. The event also included a grand prize: The Grand Award is an award given to the top three works by games makers developing in Japan and Asia from October 2019 to September 2020.Persona 5 Royaldidn’t win a grand prize however, falling behindFinal Fantasy VII Remake, PES 2020,andDragon Ball Z Kakarot.This new announcement regarding the sales ofPersona 5 RoyalandPersona 5 Scramble The Phantom Strikerswas shared via the Japanese Twitter account for thePersonaseries:
The tweet explains howPersona 5 The RoyalandPersona 5 Scramble The Phantom Strikersboth sold over 500,000 copies in Japan and Asia. Meaning that together with both games, sales reached over 1 million copies in Japan and Asia.
You can watch thePersona 5 Royalsegment of the Partner Awards below:
Back in July 2020, Atlus reportedPersona 5 Scramble The Phantom Strikershad sold 480,000 copies in Japan and Asia, meaning the game has sold at least 20,000 copies more since then.Persona 5 Royal’s total sales worldwide are currently at 1,4 million. And thePersonaseries as a whole, since its launch in 1996, sold over 13 million copies worldwide.
Persona 5 Royalwas released on July 07, 2025 in Japan on PS4. The Asia version ofPersona 5 Royalwas released on July 27, 2025.Persona 5 Scramble The Phantom Strikersreleased in Japan on July 16, 2025, on PS4 and Switch. The Asia version launched a bit after that.
Persona 5 Royalwas launched in America and Europe on June 02, 2025.Persona 5 Sstill wasn’t announced in the West, but will definitely come over at some point.
In case you didn’t read our past coverage,Persona 5 Scramble The Phantom Strikersis a true sequel toPersona 5. While it was developed by Koei Tecmo and Omega Force, it’s not a Musou game and closer to a traditional Action RPG.
Perhaps bothP5RandP5Swill end up on PC one day asSega acknowledged a rising interest on PC portsfollowing the success ofPersona 4 Goldenon Steam.
