The Persona series has slowly over time built up a strong following of gamers worldwide that is always looking for the next great school-dating simulation which is what the series is known for. What's interesting about this series is that each game has its own unique characters and story that doesn’t connect to the game before it. This allows anyone to jump into these games with a clean slate and enjoy the experience. Fast-forward to 2018 and we have another release for the Vita with Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight & Persona 5: Dancing Star Night; rhythm-based experiences set within the worlds of Persona 3 and Persona 5. Only this time instead of you going to high school, making friends and battling monsters; you are teaming up with your friends to take part in an otherworld dance competition.
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Atlus's latest financial report reveals a net loss of over 900 million yen. Despite this, Atlus states its overall business sales have been strong.
Unfortunately that wasn't caused by a lack of sales. So they will mostly likely not expand their multiplatform catalog.
"Bring the P5R to the Switch" comments will show up in the following hours for sure
Nothing. It's just in every articles that includes Atlus, there's always some people begging for it to be release on the Switch. Sorry it's just funny. They begged for a Persona game, now they have it. Persona 5 "Scramble"
That amounts to about 8 million dollars.
The loss is more because of all they have in production, so bringing a game to switch may cost them around a million, at which they'd probably return 4-5 million, which means less of a loss.
But, because of the way corporate finances are determined, it means they may have better profits in the future, as money would have been written off this year, instead of the year of release.
Looks like someone didn't actually read the article. The posted loss is just them posting amortization from their business transfer to Sega. Their sales helped Sega this year.
With Persona 5 Royal launching this year then coming next year in N.A. their sales will be better than this year so no worries they'll be more than fine.
Looks like someone didn't actually read my comment: "Unfortunately that wasn't caused by a lack of sales".
That doesn't exactly disprove that great games sell well either - they didn't say ONLY great games sell well.
That's neither here nor there.
The loss is essentially from loan repayments following the Sega acquisition.
their great games are kinda spaced out, they really waste time and probably money making filler games in between.
I would have been worried if their sales weren't strong. Honestly Persona 5 is one of the best games ever made and it would be a blow to gaming if they stopped making similar games
VGChartz's Adam Cartwright: "Despite its somewhat anaemic lineup of backwards-compatible titles (unusual in light of the genre’s strong pedigree on Sony consoles), Vita’s selection of rhythm games is highly impressive in the modern market with genre favourites like DJMax, Hatsune Miku and Taiko no Tatsujin all present and plenty of quirky oddities like Deemo, Love Live & Persona thrown in for good measure. You’re definitely going to need to try your hand at importing to get the most of the genre here, but that shouldn’t be an issue thanks to region-free hardware and easy-to-grasp gameplay."
