Persona Series Sales: 11 to 30 Million Copies, 2019–2026

A step is the honest shape. When Atlus said on 22 July 2020 that the series had passed 13 million copies, that was a floor, and it stayed the best public statement until the next announcement. A diagonal between two thresholds would draw a measurement nobody published.

The time axis matters as much. Atlus's milestones came 232, 861, 461, 514 and 311 days apart, and even spacing would hide that the 861 days between July 2020 and November 2022 were the slowest stretch.

Sega's yearly figures confirm it. The series printed 3.0 million copies in the year to March 2021 and 1.3 million in the year to March 2022, the lowest of the six full years its tables cover. An Atlus statutory notice gave about 15 million as of March 2021, but that date is inferred from a fiscal-year filing, so it stays off the chart.

Floors lag the crossing, too. On 1 August 2025 Atlus said Persona 3 Reload had reached 2 million copies. Sega's yearly figures for the same game had already passed that: 1.22 million in the year to March 2024 and 0.79 million in the year to March 2025. Those two add to 2.01 million by 31 March 2025, four months before the announcement. The sum is ours; Sega prints the yearly figures and gives only one cumulative, 2.97 million through March 2026.

Between 30 November 2022 and 5 March 2024 the total rose from more than 16.8 million to 22.6 million, about 5.8 million copies in 461 days, or roughly 4.6 million a year. The 861 days before it averaged about 1.6 million a year. These are floor-to-floor rates, so only indicators.

Two launches sit inside that stretch. Persona 5 Royal's multi-platform remaster arrived on 21 October 2022, and Sega puts Royal at 1.82 million copies in the year to March 2023, up from 0.35 million. Persona 3 Reload launched on 2 February 2024, and its 1.22 million copies in two months were just over half of the series' 2.39 million for the quarter. Totals count every game, so this shows timing, not proof of cause.

After March 2024 the pace eases: 27 million by 1 August 2025, then 30 million by 8 June 2026, roughly 3.1 and 3.5 million copies a year.

Sega's tables isolate the answer. In the year to March 2026 the series counted 3.22 million copies. Persona 5 Royal supplied 1.42 million and Persona 3 Reload 0.96 million, together 2.38 million, or 73.9%. The same pair was 2.53 of 3.58 million (70.7%) a year earlier and 2.82 of 5.06 million (55.7%) the year before that.

Neither is a new game. Royal is an expanded edition of Persona 5, and Reload is a remake of Persona 3. By 31 March 2026 Sega counted 8.66 million lifetime copies for Royal, including its 2022 remaster but not the original Persona 5, and 2.97 million for Reload, including its Switch 2 version.

The same table carries a caution. Yearly copies fell 36%, from 5.06 million in the year to March 2024 to 3.22 million in the year to March 2026, so each year now adds less than the 2024 peak. April to June 2026 printed 1.04 million, the best quarter since Reload's launch, though Sega gives no title split.

Sega's reports print Persona totals too, from about 6.2 million in its 2015 annual report to about 23.5 million in its 2024 integrated report. They do not say which date a total describes, so plotting them on publication dates would misplace them by an unknown amount. The report published in October 2022 shows it: its 15.5 million sits below the 16.8 million Atlus announced five weeks later.

One repeat is worse. Sega's 2025 integrated report, published at the end of October 2025, still says the series passed 23.5 million, the 2024 figure, three months after Atlus announced 27 million. Drawn as a 2025 point it would show the series shrinking, so it is excluded as stale.

Sega Sammy's investor column of 28 September 2026 gives three sub-series figures: Persona 5 at more than 13 million copies, Persona 4 at more than 5.7 million and Persona 3 at more than 5 million. Persona 1 and Persona 2 have no official figure from any source checked.

Only one ordering is safe: Persona 5 is first. 'More than 5 million' could be 5.9 million, which would beat 'more than 5.7 million', so Persona 3 and Persona 4 cannot be ranked against each other. The table lists the lines by game number, not by size.

None of the three has an as-of date, and the column does not say which games each line includes; for Persona 4 it names four and ends with 'etc.'. The floors do not add up to the series either: 5, 5.7 and 13 million make 23.7 million against more than 30 million, and that gap is not a finding, because every term is a floor and some games belong to no line.

'Persona 5 series' has meant different things, too. Atlus used it for 8.3 million (four games, November 2022), 10 million (with spin-offs, December 2023) and 10.46 million (Persona 5 plus Royal, August 2025). Sega's 2025 integrated report prints both 'over 10 million' and '13 million'.

Sega's column also splits the series total by sales base: North America about 40%, Japan about 20%, Europe about 20% and Asia about 20%, so overseas is about 80%. It is a share by Sega sales base, not by country: the North America base covers the Americas and the Asia base covers Asia plus the Middle East and North Africa. No as-of date is given.

Persona 6 was revealed on 7 June 2026, the day before Atlus announced 30 million, and has no release date. Persona 4 Revival is confirmed for 18 February 2027 on PlayStation 5, Xbox and PC, according to Sega.

Both will strain the counting. Atlus counts package shipments plus download sales and lists Persona 4 Revival as a Game Pass day-one title, yet neither publisher says whether subscription activations count. A Persona 4 figure published after launch would also date the Persona 4 line.