It appears that the success of Persona 4: Golden on Steam has sent the right messages to both SEGA and Atlus. During a Q&A session for its Fiscal Year Ending March 2021 first quarter financial results, SEGA re-affirmed its intention to bring more games on the PC.
As SEGA stated when an investor asked about the possibility of selling newly released games on Steam.
“We remastered Persona 4 the Golden, a title previously sold on the PlayStation Vita, and released it for sale on Steam this fiscal year. Because of the game’s critical acclaim and its low selling price, sales were much stronger than expected. We will continue to actively promote porting previously released titles to Steam and new platforms. We are also negotiating with platform holders for new games in the future, and we’re considering ways to sell under favorable conditions for each title. Among them are measures such as preparing PC versions of the titles from the beginning, with multi-platform releases in mind.”
For what it’s worth, Persona 4 Golden sold over 500K copies on the PC in its first month. Additionally, both Atlus and SEGA were pleased with the game’s sales on the PC.
It will be interesting to see now whether Persona 5 will also find its way on Steam. Persona 5 came out on PS3 and PS4 in 2017. Thus, and after the success of Persona 4, a PC port sounds plausible. Moreover, we are curious to see whether the future Persona games will release on the PC alongside their console version.
Stay tuned for more!
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I want Bayonetta 2 on PC and 3 whenever that releases. Also Sega has so many amazing classics which could be remade using next gen engine into something as good as Doom 2016.
Bayonetta 2 was funded by Nintendo. It will literally never be on PC. Unlike Sony they don’t see any value in porting exclusives.
Damn. I had that hope after they released part 1 on PC.
Had been avoiding emulators. But I guess it’s time xD
WII U game mostly have been perfectly playable with a lot of enhancement created by the community. Just play BoTW in full HD on 60 FPS and with smooth shadow make it so much better even from their switch counterpart
Thank buddy. Will do that.
Where does Sony see it?
Sony released Detroit become human and horizon so they do see some hope
Dont think I’d agree, Detroit was released bacuse of the type of contract they have with Sony; Horizon is purely for luring pc players onto ps5
CEMU got you cover there, is almost like playing a PC port at this point.
Thanks, on it as I type this.
NP 🙂 there’s also the Switch emulation option with Yuzu or Ryujynx too, have to try Bayo 2 there still.
Wow great. Will check it out too. Thank you, you’re amazing 🙂
agree, and with community patches that enhanced the visual it obviously much better than their Switch counterpart
Dumb japs it took them all this time… Folks are clueless.
Plenty of western third party games never made it to PC.
Rockstar has half their library exclusive on consoles (midnight club games, the warriors and Red Dead franchise).
Persona 5 would print money if it came to PC and was as good a port as P4G
Yea no.
Here’s the thing, like always.
THEY HAVE ALWAYS RELEASED THEIR GAMES ON STEAM. Just not their entire console catalog post Dreamcast. So it’s INFURIATING when they say something this stupid, like they somehow forgot Steam existed when the majority of their catalog since 2000 has been on PC and Steam. Even Genesis – they are uniquely the only console company that actually ported pretty much their entire library to PC and they did it like 10 years ago.
That said, Dragon;s Crown or GTFO. And Catherine Full Body which still isn’t out over a year after the original came to PC. And the old Yakuza’s please. And Persona 5, etc.
“..We are also negotiating with platform holders for new games in the future..”
EGS(Again after Total War)? Please NO Sega, no.
What if this was the only way to get the ports? Hell yeah i say, porting costs money, and Steam sure as hell is not paying.
First, port damn Yakuza 3-6 already.
And Judge Eyes.
Yakuza 3-6,Judgement,Yakuza kenzan and ishin English version…thats all i want from you Sega…
These third party devs have a gold mine with these games never released on PC, so how about a little effort in bringing them up eh?
panzer dragoon orta for starter please, also Bayonetta 2 maybe, … and please make port of many great arcade and saturn library sega created. Stop exploiting mega drive /genesis games anymore, we already have it on any platform possible.They are completely dry nowadays …
Tokyo 2020 when?! Sith version already out…