Atlus has announced that the Persona 5 series has now sold over 10 million units worldwide across all platforms. That includes sales for Persona 5 itself, Persona 5 Royal, Persona 5 Strikers, Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight, and the recently released Persona 5 Tactica. As of June, prior to the latter’s launch, the series’ sales stood at 9 million units, so clearly it has enjoyed a healthy bump thanks to the tactics RPG’s release.

Currently, there’s no official word on whether Atlus has more Persona 5 spinoffs planned, though series fans do have Persona 3 Reload to look forward to, which is out for PlayStation, Xbox, and PC in February.

Developed by Omega Force, it takes place four months after the events of Persona 5 and sees the Phantom Thieves on vacation. Unfortunately, after encountering an up-and-coming idol named Alice Hiiragi, they venture to a Jail, a mysterious version of Tokyo separate from the Palaces. With the help of Sophia, an AI, the group tackles the Monarchs and attempts to solve the mystery of the Jails.

While Persona 5’s combat is turn-based, Strikers is real-time, with players able to ambush enemies, summon Persona to exploit elemental weaknesses and launch All-Out Attacks. Each character has unique skills and play styles to combo in over-the-top ways. Check out our review for more details.

Atlus isn’t done with Persona 5 yet, as another spin-off, Persona 5 Tactica, launches on November 17th for Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PS4, PS5, PC and Nintendo Switch. Check out the latest gameplay trailer here.

In a recent press release concerning the announcement of upcoming turn-based tactics title Persona 5 Tactica (spotted by Persona Central), Atlus confirmed that the Persona 5 series has now collectively sold over 9 million units worldwide. That includes the sales of Persona 5, Persona 5 Royal, Persona 5 Strikers, and Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight.

As of the end of 2022, the Persona 5 series’ sales stood at 8.3 million units, with the total franchise sales for Persona standing at 16.8 million units. While Atlus hasn’t provided an updated number for the franchise’s total sales, the fact that Persona 5 Royal has continued to sell well since it launched for additional platforms last year would suggest that that figure stands at close to 18 million units or thereabouts. That, in turn, would also suggest that the Persona 5 series accounts for roughly half of the entire franchise’s sales.

Persona 5 Tactica is set to launch on November 17 for Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PS5, PS4, Nintendo Switch, and PC. Meanwhile, Persona 3 Reload will release in early 2024.

The “multifaceted rollout” for the series includes toys, pachislot and pachinko machines, packaged titles, digital titles and so on. While this represents a difference of 500,000 sales from the fiscal year ending March 2021, the Persona 5 series is worth noting. Its four titles – Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight, Persona 5, Persona 5 Royal, and Persona 5 Strikers – have sold 7.22 million units cumulatively.

They make up 46.6 percent of the franchise’s total sales, with 77 percent generated by overseas consumers. Since Persona 5 Royal recently released for Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PS5, PC, and Nintendo Switch, sales could be even higher heading into next year. It was last reported to have sold 1.8 million units as of June 2021.

Previously available for PC and Xbox platforms, Deep Rock Galactic is a co-op first person shooter that sees space Dwarves venturing to hostile planets and excavating materials. Areas are procedurally generated and rife with deadly monsters, each with their own unique strengths and weaknesses. PlayStation players will have access to the full game along with Season 1 and its free Battle Pass (Season 2 arrives in March/April 2022).

DiRT 5 is Codemasters’ most recent entry in the franchise and features 10 locations from around the world with more than 70 routes, numerous vehicle types and four-player split-screen support. Persona 5 Strikers is a spin-off of Atlus’s acclaimed RPG with the Phantom Thieves venturing to and liberating mysterious Jails in Japan. It offers action RPG-esque, Musou elements but is still a compelling story.

Check out Deep Rock Galactic’s PS4/PS5 launch trailer below to see the game in action.

Little Nightmares 2

Despite the numbering, it eventually becomes clear that Little Nightmares 2 is not a sequel. Rather, it’s a prequel with the ending revealing that Mono, the boy with the bag on his head, is actually the Thin Man…or rather will become him, following the Signal Tower’s corruption. Furthermore, it seems that Six became aware of this and chose to have him fall into the abyss. It gives a whole new meaning to the entire game with the Thin Man chasing Mono seemingly trying to prevent him from a similar fate.

Apparently, the PS Plus free games for January 2022 will include DiRT 5, the latest entry in Codemasters’ racing series. There’s also Deep Rock Galactic, the co-op mining FPS, which recently shifted to a seasonal model for post-launch content, and will be seeing its PlayStation launch in January. Finally, there’s Persona 5 Strikers, last year’s direct action RPG follow-up to the acclaimed 2017 JRPG Persona 5.

When compared to PS Plus offerings for previous months, Sony seems to be starting the next year on a high note, with all three games being stellar hits of their own genres.

Of course, the elephant in the room is Project Spartacus, which will reportedly be combining PS Now and PS Plus to compete against Game Pass– we’re definitely excited to hear more about that in a more official capacity, so here’s hoping.

The last major sales milestone was in July 2020 with 500,000 players reported for the PC version. Persona 5 Strikers, as noted in April, has sold over 1.3 million units thus far. As for the series overall, it’s sold over 15 million units worldwide with both physical and digital units factored. Atlus reported series sales to be 13.1 million units in November 2020.

It should be interesting to see where the series goes from here, especially with Persona 3 Portable also rumored to be coming to Steam. There’s also Project Re Fantasy, a new fantasy RPG in development at Studio Zero with Persona series producer Katsura Hashino at the helm. It’s supposed to receive an announcement this year with development apparently reaching its climax as of December 2020. Stay tuned for more details in the meantime.

Heisenberg (Village of Shadows) – Resident Evil Village

For most players, Village of Shadows difficulty can be somewhat comfortable. Unless you own the Trauma Pack DLC, you’ll likely be going through this on your second playthrough and thus have some nice upgraded weapons to take along. But none of your upgrades, weapons and so on will matter when tackling Heisenberg in the tank section due to the obscene damage he deals. It also doesn’t help that your movement is so limited inside of the tank, making it that much more difficult to survive his attacks and targeting his weak points.

Persona games are pretty much guaranteed to sell at this point, and though Atlus and Omega Force’s musou action RPG Persona 5 Strikers was more of a spinoff than a mainline entry in the series, it was still expected to sell well. And it has. Atlus has confirmed that the game has sold 1.3 million copies worldwide. Given how well received the game was, not just by musou fans but Persona fans as well, it doesn’t come as much of a surprise to see it performing so well.

That’s not the only recent Atlus release that’s enjoying commercial success either. Shin Megami Tensei 3: Nocturne HD Remaster might not be out in the west yet, but launched in Japan late last year. Since then, it has sold over 250,000 copies in the region, Atlus confirms (via Persona Central).

Persona 5 Strikers is available on PS4, Nintendo Switch, and PC. Shin Megami Tensei 3: Nocturne HD Remaster is launching for the same platforms on May 25.