Persona 4 Golden PC Sales Push SEGA to Consider PC From the Get-Go

SEGA launched Persona 4 Gilt on PC in early June and the game went on to be a nail hit of sorts, selling over 500K units via Steam in a month. User reviews are also overwhelmingly positive, with an phenomenal 96% approval charge per unit.

During the recent Q1 2021 earnings call, SEGA President and Group COO Haruki Satomi and Senior Executive Vice President and Group CFO Koichi Fukazawa replied to a few questions from the investors. The transcription is now bachelor (in Japanese) on the official website.

1 of the answers is well worth highlighting, since it suggests that SEGA will now strive to non but port other games to PC/Steam just also prepare PC releases from the commencement for brand new entries of its franchises.

Q: "Persona 4 Gilded" has been selling well on Steam, but exercise you have whatsoever plans to sell newly released games on Steam likewise?

A: We remastered "Persona 4 Golden", a title previously released on the PlayStation Vita, and launched it for sale on Steam this fiscal year. Because of the game's critical acclaim and its low selling toll, sales were much stronger than expected. Nosotros will keep to actively promote porting previously released titles to Steam and new platforms. We are also negotiating with platform holders for new games in the future, and we're because ways to sell nether favorable conditions for each title. Among those there are measures such equally preparing PC versions of the games from the beginning, with multi-platform releases in mind.

Indeed, SEGA has been deploying several previous Yakuza games on PC, and the next installment (Like a Dragon) will release simultaneously on PlayStation iv, Xbox I, and PC this November. Phantasy Star Online 2 also recently launched on Steam, while the New Genesis expansion/overhaul is planned for a debut in 2021 on PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series 10.