Sega’s are just aware of how well Persona 4: Golden has done on Steam since its launch in June, and the publisher is looking to port more classic games, as well as deals for new ones.
Speaking at a quarterly investor presentation (to, PersonaCentral), Sega Sammy president and COO group Haruki Satomi, and Sega Sammy senior vice president and CFO group Koichi Fukazawa, Persoa 4’s strong sales have inspired the publisher to double down. doubling. “In order to [Persona 4: Golden’s] critical gains and the low selling price, sales were much stronger than expected, ”the executives stated. “We will continue to actively promote porting of previously released titles to Steam and new platforms.”
Not only does this potentially mean more of Atlus’ RPG games and anime games that have not been widely available in years, but there are also deals being made for upcoming releases. “We are also negotiating with platform owners for new games in the future, and we are considering ways to sell under favorable terms for each title,” the executives said. “Among them are measures such as preparing PC versions of the titles from the beginning, with multi-platform releases in mind.”
The latter is already beginning. Yakuza: Like A Dragon is set to be released on Western platforms, including PC, on November 13, just 10 months after its release in Japan. It has previously taken three years for Yakuza 0 to reach Steam, so the gap is shrinking sharply.
Persona 4: Gold sold half a million copies within a month of hitting PC. The resulting fandom has inspired some other projects in the making, such as one ongoing effort by one to digitize an out-of-print card game based on the Persona series.
