If players stop celebrating a certain Sonic the Hedgehog’s 30th anniversary in due course, the SEGA Sammy group will still be in a good mood, and for good reason.
Everything is better for the SEGA Sammy Group: after a year 2020 that was burdened by the coronavirus and emptied the Patchinko rooms of its traditional clientele, 2021 promises to be the year of the takeover for the Japanese holding company. Already earlier this summer, the group was rubbing hands with sales above estimates thanks to the back-to-back releases of Persona 5 Strikers, Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne HD Remaster, and Persona 4 Golden. Ah, and still 13 Aegis Rim Sentinels.
A turn-based climb
This weekend SEGA was featured in Sammy a document of about forty pages the integrated presentation of the 2020-2021 financial yearwhich ended on March 31st. A few months after SEGA was named Editor of the Year by the Metacritic aggrega tor, the mood is good again, because the takeover of Atlus in 2013 is bearing fruit again.
The Persona series, now more bankable than ever, has actually just passed the 15 million “units sold” mark, a figure the group had to twist to showcase given the total number of obviously video games, but patchislots as well and other plethora of derivative products. Suffice it to say that the pressure on those is immense to name Persona 6 for the time being, which was mentioned earlier this summer through his recruitment.
What’s even more incredible is that Shin Megami Tensei’s mother series cracked 17 million units sold with the same trick., a very nice score for a saga that a few years ago was so little known outside the circles of Japanese players. After the return of the third episode, which was revived this year, the publisher is obviously relying on Shin Megami Tensei V to continue this upward trend.
The verdict should not be long in coming, because the long-awaited J-RPG will finally be released on November 12th, but on Switch. As for Sonic …