{"id":115168,"date":"2020-07-09T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/07\/atlus_says_persona_5_scrambles_sales_exceeded_its_expectations"},"modified":"2020-07-09T04:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T04:30:00","slug":"atlus-says-persona-5-scrambles-sales-exceeded-its-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/09\/atlus-says-persona-5-scrambles-sales-exceeded-its-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlus Says Persona 5 Scramble&#8217;s Sales Exceeded Its Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/79c72badb3413\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/79c72badb3413\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Persona 5 Scramble - Joker\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/79c72badb3413\/persona-5-scramble-joker.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/79c72badb3413\/persona-5-scramble-joker.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Persona 5 Scramble - Joker\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Ever since Joker joined the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\">Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/a><\/strong> roster, there have been calls for Atlus to release the mainline Persona series on the Nintendo Switch. While there&#8217;s still no sign of it happening, the spin-off <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/persona_5_scramble_the_phantom_strikers\">Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers<\/a><\/strong> has already made its way across to the hybrid system in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>In its latest financial statement, Atlus has now revealed Persona 5 Scramble was one of three games that exceeded sales expectations in the most recent fiscal year. Unfortunately, it didn&#8217;t reveal individual system sales or the combined amount.<\/p>\n<p>If this is the case, perhaps it will encourage Atlus to release The Phantom Strikers locally on the Nintendo Switch. Keep in mind, there&#8217;s been no official announcement for the west just yet, and the last update (back in April) was that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/04\/persona_5_scramble_localisation_still_being_planned_according_to_koei_tecmo_report\">localisation was &#8216;still being planned&#8217;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, the positive sales reception to Phantom Strikers in Japan might lead to even more Persona games on the Switch. Would you show your support for Persona 5 Scramble if it was released locally on the Nintendo Switch? <em>Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since Joker joined the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate roster, there have been calls for Atlus to release the mainline Persona series on the Nintendo Switch. While there&#8217;s still no sign of it happening, the spin-off Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers has already made its way across to the hybrid system in Japan. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}