Company financial reports often give us an insight into the performance of games and the strategies of some of the biggest companies in the industry. However, these companies don’t want all of their data to be known to the general public, so details are often redacted from the documents that are shared online. Usually.
Segaattempted to do this with aPowerPointthat accompanied a recent meeting, and was then shared online. To anyone viewing the PowerPoint, the sales data was redacted accurately, as you can’t see it. However, now that it’s online, it turns out you can still highlight the invisible text, and then just copy it elsewhere, revealing the data that Sega was supposed to conceal.
Persona 5 Royal Was Sega’s Best-Selling Game Of The Past Few Years
This was quickly spotted online and shared onRedditandResetEra. From the information gathered from the PowerPoint, we can see that Sega’s best-performing game of the past six years isPersona 5 Royal, as it shifted 7,250,000 copies - and that’s not including the original release ofPersona 5.
Other than that, we can see that theSonicseries is doing very well.Sonic Frontiersmoved 4,570,000 copies, andTeam Sonic Racingsold 3,500,000 copies. EvenSonic Superstars, which wasnot as well received as other recent Sonic games, and releasedright alongside Super Mario Bros. Wonder, still managed to reach 2,430,000 sales.
Elsewhere, we can see that, as of the time that these numbers were put together, the best performing game in theLike a Dragonseries wasYakuza: Like a Dragon, then it wasLike a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, and lastly,Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name.
Now, these numbers might beourmost up-to-date figures, but that doesn’t mean that these areSega’s most up-to-date figures. In the PowerPoint, a note over the redaction reads: “Some content is currently under adjustment”, so we might get some more stats soon. This would make sense, as there’s no mention of recent releases like Sonic X Shadow Generations,which we already know sold well at launch. However, in the meantime, this gives us an insight into how Sega’s biggest series are performing.
So, if you’re ever wondering why the Persona series is never leaving Persona 5 behind, now you know why. When a single re-release is performing this well, it’s safe to assume that the spin-offs have brought in the money too. I’m sure we’llget Persona 6 one day…
