{"id":99055,"date":"2019-08-24T04:25:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T04:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/08\/the_persona_series_has_now_sold_more_than_10_million_copies_worldwide"},"modified":"2019-08-24T04:25:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T04:25:00","slug":"the-persona-series-has-now-sold-more-than-10-million-copies-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/24\/the-persona-series-has-now-sold-more-than-10-million-copies-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"The Persona Series Has Now Sold More Than 10 Million Copies Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/41bbc695c3669\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/41bbc695c3669\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Persona Q2\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/41bbc695c3669\/persona-q2.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/41bbc695c3669\/persona-q2.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Persona Q2\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>The Persona series might not be as globally recognised as Mario or Pikachu just yet, but it&#8217;s certainly grown in popularity over the past number of years. In fact, it recently reached a significant milestone in its history.<\/p>\n<p>According to Atlus, in a blog post over on the official <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/p-ch.jp\/news\/4053\/\">Japanese Persona website<\/a>, the entire series has now sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. This reportedly includes every single game, since it debuted in 1996 as a spin-off to <strong>Shin Megami Tensei<\/strong>. We&#8217;re talking about the main role-playing adventures and every other game with the Persona name attached to it.<\/p>\n<p>The recent release of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/persona_q2_new_cinema_labyrinth\">Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth<\/a><\/strong> on the 3DS is believed to have pushed the series over the line. Following a Sega Sammy investor report dating back to October last year, the series had sold 9.3 million copies. Since then, Persona Q2 was launched within and outside of Japan.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, Persona has gone from strength to strength. Joker also made it into <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\">Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/a><\/strong> not long ago as the first DLC fighter. As for what&#8217;s ahead, Switch owners can look forward to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/persona_5_scramble_the_phantom_strikers\">Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers<\/a><\/strong>. It&#8217;s another spin-off based on Koei Tecmo and Omega Force&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/fire_emblem_warriors\">Warriors<\/a><\/strong> series.<\/p>\n<p><em>Put your hands together for the Persona series in the comments below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Persona series might not be as globally recognised as Mario or Pikachu just yet, but it&#8217;s certainly grown in popularity over the past number of years. In fact, it recently reached a significant milestone in its history. According to Atlus, in a blog post over on the official Japanese Persona website, the entire series [&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-99055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99055","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=99055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}