This week, Sega held its quarterly investors’ meeting online, and during the Q&A session, an Sega investor asked Sammy CEO Haruki Satomi and CFO Kouichi Fukazawa about whether more games on the PC will be sold via Steam in the future, according to the success of Persona 4 Gold.
Here is the full question and answer translated below:
Q: As for Steam, Persona 4 Gold has done very well in sales. Will the company consider selling new titles in the future from the beginning?
A: “Persona 4 Gold is a remaster of a previous title released for PlayStation Vita. With its release on Steam, the game was highly rated by game review sites, and in part because of its cheap price, the game exceeded our expectations in sales by a large margin. In the future, we want to proactively move to previously released titles on Steam and other new platforms. Furthermore, we will negotiate new games with the platform owners in the future and explore different methods of selling each title case by case under advantageous circumstances. As part of this, we hope to take actions such as releasing PC versions from the beginning with multi-platform releases in mind. ”
Since Persona 4 GoldThe June release on Steam reached the game’s personal milestone of 500,000 players, and has greatly surpassed its lifetime sales on PlayStation Vita. It seems that this may have led to the opening of the floodgates of even more Sega PC game ports, and even games released simultaneously on PC in the future.
