The release of Persona 3 Reload was a great success for Atlus. The company announced that the remake of the third part of Persona turned out to be the fastest-selling game in its history.
Persona 3 Reload
Persona 3 Reload is doing great not only with sales, but also with other indicators. Now it is the most popular Atlus game on Steam in terms of online: at its peak, it managed to attract 45 thousand people at the same time. For comparison, the next Persona 5 Royal has a peak online traffic of 35.5 thousand people.
This online makes Persona 3 Reload the sixth most popular release of 2024 on Steam immediately after Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (46.1 thousand people) - another SEGA—published project, which also sold over a million copies in a week.
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In addition, Persona 3 Reload became the third highest-grossing product on Steam for the week from January 30 to February 6, overtaking Steam Deck, Counter-Strike 2 and many other projects. It was second only to Palworld and Granblue Fantasy: Relink.
Persona 3 Reload was released on February 2 on PC, PlayStation and Xbox. Currently, the game's rating on Metacritic is 87-89 points out of 100, depending on the platform. Her Steam rating is 97%.
Recall that in the summer of 2023, it became known that the circulation of the Persona series reached 17.7 million copies. At the same time, it was reported that sales of the Persona 5 line alone, which includes the original game and its spin-offs, exceed 9 million copies. In December, Atlus updated sales data for the Persona 5 line and announced that they had grown to 10 million copies. Thus, it can be assumed that now the circulation of the entire series is about 20 million copies.