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wackyteen
10/31/22 3:24:09 AM
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https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2022/10/sonic-the-hedgehogs-lifetime-sales-speed-past-1-5-billion-units

https://twitter.com/MauroNL3/status/1585889996732506113


It's been a pretty big year for Sonic the Hedgehog. From the commercial success of his second movie back in April to the impending release of the much-anticipated Sonic Frontiers in November and the new Sonic Prime Netflix series in December, it is getting pretty difficult to miss SEGA's speedy lil spike ball.
According to the company's latest annual report, it is clear that Sonic's popularity isn't slowing down. The figures contained within the report detail the lifetime sales for all of the company's assets (original and acquired) including the likes of Puyo Puyo, Football Manager and Persona. It is Sonic, however, that stands blue head and shoulders above the rest, with the franchise having sold a total of 1.51 billion units (game sales and downloads across paid and free-to-play titles) since its conception back in 1991.
As pointed out by video game industry analyst @MauroNL3 on Twitter, this is a pretty big number for SEGA. The next franchise to come close to Sonic's supremecy is Total War on 40.4 million units sold - only one billion four hundred and sixty million units to go!
In SEGA's 2021 annual report, Sonic was standing at 1.38 billion sales, showing that the hedgehog is making no motion of slowing down and we can only imagine that it will continue to improve in the final two months of the year. With Frontiers and Prime right round the corner, the Sonic hype train is going nowhere.
Elsewhere, the 2022 report stated that the Persona franchise is currently sitting on a perfectly respectable 15.5 million units sold. Whether this includes the recent rerelease of Persona 5 Royal or not, we cannot tell, although our glowing review hopes that more people will play the game in the coming months.

I don't believe this for a second

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Kakapo
10/31/22 3:26:06 AM
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How many of those were for good games though?

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Zikten
10/31/22 3:26:42 AM
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Megami Tensei is owned by Sega?
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DarkFists
10/31/22 3:26:50 AM
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They've resold Sonic 1 a lot, and the series has a lot of games in general, but it does sound obscenely high...

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PiOverlord
10/31/22 3:30:11 AM
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Mobile game downloads are going to really inflate every single franchise's numbers.

They are relevant, for sure, but it's a far cry from a single Mario game selling over 20 million copies of a game at retail price, generating over a billion just off that alone (not solely in Nintendo's pocket of course).


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DarkFists
10/31/22 3:38:17 AM
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PiOverlord posted...
Mobile game downloads are going to really inflate every single franchise's numbers.

They are relevant, for sure, but it's a far cry from a single Mario game selling over 20 million copies of a game at retail price, generating over a billion just off that alone (not solely in Nintendo's pocket of course).
Oh right, I forgot about the mobile games, that explains it

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Mad-Dogg
10/31/22 3:42:24 AM
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Ah snap, phantasy star bringing in that dress-up waifu money.

*I have a slight naive hope that sega will do a low effort PSO blue burst port to the PS5.......please sega?*

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Ratchetrockon
10/31/22 5:03:15 AM
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Wow sonic is mainstream

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GreenMario
10/31/22 5:09:46 AM
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DarkFists posted...
They've resold Sonic 1 a lot, and the series has a lot of games in general, but it does sound obscenely high...
Those early Sonic games are on basically every Sega retro game collection and every plug n play sega thing ever and all of those sonic game collections, hell the first two had a compilation game as early as the genesis. I believe it, tbh.

Also the genesis Sonic games were good so people bought them a lot.

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BTH_Phoenix
10/31/22 11:34:14 AM
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ok

now make them good

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CARRRNE_ASADA
11/01/22 2:07:05 PM
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Zikten posted...
Megami Tensei is owned by Sega?

When they bough Atlus. Anyway this irks me about video games companies. Youre sitting on top of famous franchises and yet refuse to do anything with them. Look at PSO, sure theres the online game, but what of creating an amazing offline story in the world? You have brand recognition!

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s0nicfan
11/01/22 2:08:40 PM
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Let's celebrate with a cake:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/7/7/AABJX0AAD1uN.jpg

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