Persona 3 Reload cracks a million sales in its first week

ATLUS hails it as fastest-selling game in its history

Marco Wutz | Feb 8, 2024

Persona 3 Reload cracks a million sales in its first week /

It’s a good time to make JRPGs, it seems: Persona 3 Reload has sold over one million copies in its first week since launch, developer ATLUS announced. Fans of the genre were a bit worried about Persona 3 and Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth releasing so close to one another, uttering concerns about the two titles cannibalizing each other’s sales. With Infinite Wealth also selling a million copies in a week, it looks like these worries were for naught.

ATLUS stated that Persona 3 Reload had become the fastest-selling game in company history with this blazing pace. “A huge thank you to our community for your incredible support! We look forward to breaking more records with you,” the studio wrote.

Persona 3 Reload key art — Persona 3 Reload is already the fourth version of the game ATLUS has published / Atlus

Persona as a series began in 1996 as a spin-off from Megami Tensei with the original Persona 3 launching in 2006. Reload is a complete remake of that Persona 3.

Persona 5, initially released in 2016, has been the most successful entry into the series up to this point. By April 2023, Persona 5 and Persona 5 Royal (an enhanced edition making the title available on additional platforms) sold a combined 7.2 million copies. By December 2023, the entire Persona 5 series (main games plus spin-offs) had shipped over ten million units.

Persona 3 Reload is a modernized version of the original game, made for an audience that got its first introduction to the series with Persona 5 – and as our Persona 3 Reload review stated, old-school fans of the franchise may not be 100% on board with this: “The issue that most Persona 3 fans will have is that Persona 3 Reload is another incomplete version for them to play. However, if all you know of the Persona series is Persona 5, then this is the version you will want to play, with all the modern conveniences thrown in.”

Still, the commercial success speaks for itself – and for Sega, which publishes both Persona 3 Reload (at least outside of Japan) and Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, this is a double whopper of goodness.

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Published Feb 8, 2024

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg