Persona 4 Arena’s Console Version Now Best Selling Conventional Fighting Game In Japan

by MyLifeIsAnRPG on August 2nd, 2012 at 10:48 am

According to Beast Note, the console version of Persona 4 Arena (or Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena as it is known there) has broken records in the fighting game genre. It is now the best selling conventional fighting game in the past four years, selling over 138,000 copies in just four days. To compare, Street Fighter IV only sold 86,000 in it’s first week and Tekken 6 sold approximately 103,000. In fact, the only fighting games that beat Persona 4 Arena were non-conventional Square-Enix titles Dissidia and Dissidia Duodecim which sold around 490,000 and 286,000 units respectively. The questions we should ask now are “what does this mean for the FGC in Japan?” and “will the game have similar success here in America?”

Source: Beast Note

Rahavic

Being someone who is a fan of the Persona games I’ll be one of the ones that actually stick with the game. I hope it does just as well over here, but either way I’m in there!
- MarLonLonMilk
  
  Assuming you’re in America, it has a good chance of sticking for you guys. I’m hoping there’s fans like you over here in Canada…
  - Johnson Nguyen
    
    There would be one more fan in Canada through me if I were able to play the first two SMT games… already being a fan of Atlus and all.
    - MarLonLonMilk
      
      I got lucky and played most of them through friends. Hopefully you get to play them.
    - RELLIK .exe
      
      OMG…It’s reidiculous they ported the first Devil SUmmoner to PSP and didn’t even localize it for english yet they can crank out a remix of Persona tittles -.-
- karanji
  
  I am curious if the XBOX lag/online connectivity issues have been resolved yet?
  
  Also, is BlazBlue still played on PSN or XBL in large numbers? I think this games popularity will closely mimic that of other Atlus/Ark games.
http://twitter.com/CGRonin Jay

Well damn. I must admit, I never expected this game to do -that- well. Now I’m eager t try it out.
- spectaa
  
  …why? It’s Persona. Persona is huge in Japan and caters way wider than your usual fighting game license. Will it last, that’s another thing.
  - Narcowski
    
    It’s lasted several months on the top of the Arcadia Magazine arcade charts. No reason for it to die now.
  - XaviIniesta
    
    It’s been #1 for months in Japan in the arcades. Doesn’t show any signs of slowing down for now.
tiki.92

Well, of course.

Now let’s see if the community for the game is strong and willing to keep this game active and keep it as a main tourney game. I’m sure that’d be a welcome change.
cablinka

it meansa lot of people are fapping right now
and your one of them
- Rahavic
  
  Fapping to what? This isn’t an all girl fighter. The fact that you see anything anime and choose to only recognize the female characters and look at them instantly as some sort of means of “fapping” is honestly very weird.
  - http://twitter.com/HooliganCombo James Reilly
    
    gives a bad image to 9 year olds if you ask me
  - XaviIniesta
    
    9 year olds know how to spell “you’re”.
Maxim Cryseria

planning on buying this myself. am a huge guilty gear and blazblue fan so hopefully the gameplay would be closely similar but somewhat different.
xeleion

It means that there are a lot of Persona/SMT fans who are loyal to the franchise. This isn’t surprising considering Persona is the third most popular RPG series in Japan, behind Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy.
- PrinceHeir
  
  hmm your missing Pokemon, Monster Hunter(yes it is) though so it might be in the Top 10′s but not top 3.
  
  though i want to know which is more popular Shin Megami Tensei or Persona.
  
  for those who didn’t know Persona series is NOT a part of SM.
  
  it’s a new franchise, only Atlus USA decided to put SMT in the title just so they could market it properly(which is a big mistake, since people will be confused between the two)
  
  i wonder if they made a new Dissidia but 2D gameplay or a SMT fighting game.
  
  Digital Devil Saga characters versus Devil Summoner or Nocturne would be sweet!!
  - xeleion
    
    I did not. The three largest RPG franchises, in terms of game sales, merch sales, event attendance, and general franchise value, are Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, and Persona in that order. It’s been this way for… years.
    
    Pokemon is up there, but unless things have changed recently it’s not bigger than Monster Hunter. And for classification purposes, MH is classified as an action-adventure or action-RPG, compared to franchises like Zelda. Even though it outsells Persona and (usually) Final Fantasy during the times their products compete, most consider it a separate category.
    - PrinceHeir
      
      huh?? i don’t think so.
      
      Pokemon is STILL on Top charts
      
      http://andriasang.com/con241/weekly_sales/
      
      Pokemon Black and White 2 have been released since last MARCH.
      
      give 1-2 months from now Persona 4 Arena will drop down to top 10.
      
      heck just a few weeks ago Pokemon is still Number 1
      
      http://andriasang.com/con1yv/weekly_sales/
      
      only today it drop from Top 5
      
      i think your underestimating the power of Pokemon.
      
      actually some people classify Monster Hunter as a RPG.
      
      the only difference is it doesn’t have a story of it own(bits and pieces)
      
      but the Role Playing elements are there.
      
      Zelda i could agree of is another league of its own.
    - necrosex
      
      sadfasdf
  - SalomeHarras
    
    Err, this is a no-brainer…Persona is more popular than SMT in Japan. SMT never put up the numbers that Persona has. There’s a reason why Atlus has pretty much shifted focus to Persona as their new “flagship” title rather than SMT.
    
    SMT fans don’t like hearing it, but you can’t argue with the numbers.
    - PrinceHeir
      
      it’s a shame it has come down to that.
      
      i prefer SMT just because every game can have different setting(then again most of the main ones are in shibuya)
      
      but the spin offs like Digital Devil Saga, Devil Summoner are freaking awesome.
      
      the problem with Persona games are they’re pretty much restricted to schools.
      
      sure they are field trips and outside trips but majority of the time your in the school with your buddies.
      
      i want other places, like undergrounds, caves, hell etc.
      
      plus it’s more darker than Persona series.
      
      most of the time in Persona are more light hearted. sure there are dark things in Persona, but SMT just takes the cake.
      
      music, art direction, even the plot revolves around the world dying. devour, sin etc.
      
      i wish more people would look into games like this.
      - http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-Viet-Nguyen/100000070536507 Richard Viet Nguyen
        
        I have yet to see any SMT game or Persona game top Nocturne. That baby is the king my friend. Never in my life have I played such an unforgiving, cryptic, satisfying, and unique RPG.
        
        That said, Persona is fun and I’m glad Atlus is doing so well these
        days. They’re a great company and always make some very original games.
  - suproman
    
    “it’s a new franchise, only Atlus USA decided to put SMT in the title
    just so they could market it properly(which is a big mistake, since
    people will be confused between the two)”
    
    Actually It is connected to SM, its just a complete spinoff.
- SalomeHarras
  
  The Tales of series is bigger than the Persona series in Japan…
- RELLIK .exe
  
  Wow…never knew that. Amazing they can skip almost an ENTIRE console generation.
  But I suppose them handhelds…
AriesWarlock

JRPG’s definitely have great characters for fighting games.

I’d like to see some day a Shadow Hearts fighting game.
- PrinceHeir
  
  would love a SMT fighting game instead though.
  
  Digital Devil Characters will devour everyone!!
  - Carlos Ferrara
    
    A SMT fighting game by Capcom.
    
    You wouldn’t be able to say the full title in one breath.
    - PrinceHeir
      
      no no no capcom
      
      i think Arc System Works should do it
      
      but yeah title would be moutful
      
      Shin Megami Tensei Battle Arena
      
      imagine for revisions
      
      Shin Megami Tensei Battle Arena Continuum Shift 2 Plus Version A Revision 1.02.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Yan-Zhao/10516382 Yan Zhao
  
  Shadow Hearts fighting game will never happen because Yuri will pretty much be unbeatable. :<
  - AriesWarlock
    
    Because of Amon and the other godlike transformation? They would be more like ultras rather than full-time activation
- http://handsomefatman.com/ Carlos Alexandre
  
  I’d love a FF6 one, with non-pussy Terra.
  - http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-Viet-Nguyen/100000070536507 Richard Viet Nguyen
    
    Seconded.
- Donovan Harris
  
  Obviously a Tales FG is top priority here.
  - AriesWarlock
    
    I think there was a Tales FG.
http://twitter.com/wifininja Andrew Heintz III

Im completely interested in this one I’ll be waiting for it to come out!
FLStyle

Persona 3 127,472 in its first week.
Persona 4 193,000 in its first week.
Persona 4 Arena 138,000 in its first 4 days

So that lines up about right. The fact that it’s done better than traditional fighting games isn’t too surprising, Persona RPGs are more popular than fighting games in Japan.
http://handsomefatman.com/ Carlos Alexandre

This is good. Now if Skullgirls sales climb with the upcoming eventual DLC, I’ll be a happy guy.
http://profile.yahoo.com/TGIDZZVL24YPLDA54UUDQBBABY RisingStar

Persona there is like what COD is here. Widely popular and everyone knows about it, even if they hate it.
- http://twitter.com/Zero_The_Shadow Tony
  
  Comparing 138,000 copies to a million+ copies isn’t a well thought out comparison. Persona is NOT the equivalent of Call of Duty in Japan,
  - http://twitter.com/GrapeATL Grape 포도 약탈품
    
    The Point
    
    Your Head
  - Ebere Nnorom
    
    He never said they were equivalent in popularity. He only drew a comparison, hence the word “like” in his statement.
- http://twitter.com/Graphf Thane W
  
  That analogy is retarded. You sound like a japanophile who thinks he loves Japan but has never actually been there.
  - StunningBiceps
    
    I’m an American living in Japan and I bet lots of people love it more than I do who bave never been here.
    
    “Widely popular and everyone knows about it, even if they hate it.”
    I completely agree with this.
    
    You (Thane) are the reason why ‘japanophiles’ exist in America.
- PrinceHeir
  
  i wouldn’t say like COD.
  
  i would say the Big 3 are
  
  Pokemon, Monster Hunter, Dragon Quest.
  
  the Trifecta of japan
  
  GUARANTEE these games will sell 1M Day 1 alone.
- Louis Lam
  
  But Persona’s a good game.
- SalomeHarras
  
  No it isn’t. Monster Hunter and Pokemon are the equivalents of CoD over there. Persona doesn’t put up numbers anywhere near those two monsters…
- http://www.facebook.com/dion.johnson.982 Dion Johnson
  
  actually, Monster Hunter and Dragon Quest are more COD level there. MH because it’s the only reason anyone bought a PSP, and DQ because at one point it was illegal to release games on school days since kids cut class to buy it.
http://twitter.com/HooliganCombo James Reilly

This game is dope
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002175070146 Richard Johnson

it would be awesome if it also had that success over hear in america
http://twitter.com/MiGaOh Michael G. O’Hair

Persona 4 Arena has many things going for it that contribute to its sale success.

a.) It features characters that aren’t specifically from a fighting game. The note about Final Fantasy Dissidia’s high sales numbers contributes to this point. Instead of drawing sales primarily from fighting game players, Persona 4 Arena generates sales from both fighting game fans, Persona series fans, and probably some fans who watch Japanese cartoons.

b.) I’ve heard that Persona 4 Arena doesn’t suffer from some of the pitfalls that afflicted BlazBlue from a mechanical standpoint; the Burst function, for example. Persoally, I need to read up more on this and see more demonstrations.

c.) Persona 4 Arena may be expanded in the future with more characters and a continuation of the story (like BB Continuum Shift). The expectation of that possibility may have driven sales to a degree. Maybe Persona fans want to know what happens during the story. Hopefully any story continuation or roster expansions don’t follow the BBCS/KOF/SFXTK models ($$$ for each).

There’s an article on Siliconera (http://www.siliconera.com/2012/08/01/persona-4-arena-opening-week-sales-outsell-street-fighter-and-blazblue/) about Persona 4 Arena’s sales number in Japan. At the end of the article, a few questions were asked, including:

“4. A fighting game (based on a popular brand) that relies on
accessibility and a strong story has outsold every other major fighting
game in its opening week. Does this have any long-term implications for
the genre?”

Accessibility, rather than high barrier to entry. Strong narrative, as opposed to convoluted (BlazBlue) or dull (Street Fighter). In an (arcade) fighting game? Despite availability in Japanese game centers, Persona 4 Arena became the best selling fighting game? Just as an aside, how many of you have or have not played Persona 3 or 4 (I haven’t) and are seriously interested in the game (I’m not too excited for it)?

On the negative side, the lag problems on the 360 version of the game very likely contributed to the poor sales numbers for that platform. With the availability of the game in arcades, what would be the justification for such low numbers due to poor online play when the game could be played lagless at a game center? I guess online play is more of a selling point in Japan than I previously thought.
- Jason Moses
  
  The 360 being a dead platform contributed to the poor sales numbers for that platform.
- PrinceHeir
  
  for those who haven’t played P3 i would recommend you playing Persona 3 FES.
  
  then if you like to add some more, try playing Persona 3 Portable(it features a female protagonist)
  
  everything is the same in P3P there’s only a few differences:
  
  http://www.destructoid.com/preview-persona-3-portable-all-new-features-outlined-173538.phtml
  
  http://www.neoseeker.com/forums/45142/t1474931-new-features-information-thread/
  
  im just gonna mention major differences besides the two.
  
  Portable has female protagonist, battle system much closer to P4(meaning every member is controlled compare to back then when the leader is the only character you can use)
  and a cameo from a certain Atlus game(won’t spoil it for you, just have to find it yourself)
  
  the biggest drawback is that it didn’t include FES(a Prologue story) which is important despite alot of haters.
  
  oh and the reason 360 sales are that is because, well the 360 is just not popular in japan.
  
  sure you could see Daigo and others playing XBLA, but they’re in the minority.
  
  the only game i know that sell well on 360 in japan is Shumps and Visual Novel Games.
  
  though 5pb has been porting pretty much every VN game they added on the 360 with all the features.
  
  plus the PS3 version of Robotics:notes manage to outsold the 360 Day 1.
- http://twitter.com/HooliganCombo James Reilly
  
  The 360 is not popular in Japan. What else is new?
http://twitter.com/gogotwit Gojira Twit

This isn’t really a surprise. Persona is a popular RPG series in Japan and people there are already familiar with the arcade version so it’s easier to come to a decision. Neither will be much of a factor outside of the country.
http://www.8wayrun.com Malice

It’s not a surprise that P4U is doing well in Japan since it’s been one of the most popular fighting games there since it came out in the arcades. But articles like this are misleading because Dissidia’s numbers blow it out, Gundam’s numbers blow it, and it didn’t sell that much more over Tekken 6 which went on to sell 3+ million copies worldwide.

Let’s see how the game does after a month and once it’s available in more regions. Other than that, I can’t wait to give this game a try since BlazBlue was a huge disappointment.
- http://twitter.com/HooliganCombo James Reilly
  
  its not misleading since they used “conventional fighters”
- http://twitter.com/Zdravcc Klemen Ogrizek
  
  BlazBlue was anything but disappointment. And it’s because of BB and GG, we now have P4A to look forward to.
  - Phil Wright
    
    BlazBlue is the poor man’s Guilty Gear. Always has been, always will be. Now that they can start making Guilty Gear games again, BB is going bye bye.
    - http://twitter.com/Zdravcc Klemen Ogrizek
      
      WRONG!
    - http://twitter.com/HooliganCombo James Reilly
      
      GG and BB equally is starting to look like crap to me after witnessing and playing Persona 4 arena. Its without any of their flaws while improving in other areas
    - http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JCPSC4QXY6QVC3VPBNBJDZAFMU kao
      
      I have a feeling GG is gonna end up like 3rd strike online edition.
      - http://profiles.google.com/mpureka Mike Pureka
        
        I agree; The new version of Guilty Gear is going to make the small handful of hardcore GG fans very happy, and everyone else is going to continue ignoring it and them.
        
        Calling BB a “poor man’s guilty gear” just makes you sound ignorant, if you ask me. There are similarities, but the games don’t really fundamentally play much alike.
      - http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-Viet-Nguyen/100000070536507 Richard Viet Nguyen
        
        Probably, but my Dick will be very satisfied nevertheless.
  - http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NENYSPUQQ6WX4NP3GNGPE3YB7Y gene p
    
    Hes entitled to his OPINION and i also feel BB was a huge disppointment.
macklk

nice
http://www.facebook.com/Syxx573 Daniel Jones

japan already knew sf4 was going to suck
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Jacob-Paul-Schmidt/100002318807148 Jacob Paul Schmidt
  
  Actually the people that actually play the game in a relatively high level actually like the game a lot and have been quoted saying they enjoy the game. SFIV doesnt suck its probably one of the best fighting games of all time.
  
  Its got a perfect balance of Defensive and Offensive play, there are a ton of unique characters, There are tons of OS and there is good meter managment, there is also new technology still coming out for it and the combos for characters can range from incredibly easy (RYU) to incredibly difficult (Ibuki).
  - http://twitter.com/hammermountain Kori F
    
    no. just no.
  - Louis Lam
    
    “SFIV doesnt suck its probably one of the best fighting games of all time.”
    
    LOL
    - kn3ll
      
      Arcade Edition 2012, in terms of balance, is one of the best fighters of all time. There’s not a whole lot of disagreeing with this. I don’t like SF4 a whole lot, but I’m not going to pretend that 3s is leaps and bounds ahead of it.
  - suproman
    
    Watch yourself, your in the day of hipsters on this site, and on top of this your in a Persona post. Tread carefully.
  - Donovan Harris
    
    I didn’t like Vanilla, but after that I think SF4 got really good. AE2012 is good, and I think, better than 3S. It’s not better than CvS2 but it’s close to it. Actually…3S is overrated IMO.
http://twitter.com/JuleVortes Jule Vortes

PERSONAAAAAAAAAAAAA ~ Sorry had to do it. I guess I’ll gamefly this.
http://twitter.com/SUPARSTARX Tony

Why aren’t you sourcing a real site instead?
- Narcowski
  
  Beast Note cites MediaCreate via NeoGAF. It’s legit. The numbers in this post are a bit off though; MyLifeIsAnRPG didn’t sum cross-platform sales for SF, which was actually closer to 120k in its first week (still beaten by Persona though)
http://www.facebook.com/charles.scottspain Charles Scott-Spain

Is it too much to assume that the financial growth of the FGC is dependent on licensing?
http://twitter.com/mrvec Mister Vec

You are comparing Persona 4 Arena’s Xbox and PS3 sales to Street Fighter 4′s PS3 sales only.
- Narcowski
  
  Yeah, I made a forum thread with the real numbers yesterday:
  http://shoryuken.com/forum/index.php?threads/persona-4-arena-1-first-week-sales-in-japan-2008-2012.165567/
  
  Still beat the entire SFIV series.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Yan-Zhao/10516382 Yan Zhao

Why does everyone try so damn hard to find excuses to why this game sold well and just cant admit that P4A is a freaking GOOD fighting game? I know most of you are Capcom loyalists but damn.
- Brutal_Right
  
  Because the majority of Capcom fans think this is just another Anime weaboo fighting game, which is kind of unfair considering ALL fighting games from Japan are anime-styled one way or another. Yes, even street fighter is the anime weaboo stuff that a lot of people hate. It’s just in 3D models instead of 2D.
  - Cylith
    
    Finally someone who understands that. I’ve said it a few times that “anime” only means Japan ANIMATED it! ie: Illustrated or designed it, whether 2d or 3D. So SF is an “anime” game. So is any Japanese game in a loose view point.
    - http://www.facebook.com/andygarron Andy Garron
      
      You’re missing the point. “Anime game” in the FGC takes on a different meaning than the literal meaning in other contexts.
      - http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JCPSC4QXY6QVC3VPBNBJDZAFMU kao
        
        No it doesn’t Aqua Plazza is anime even though its gameplay is most simular to SF.
  - elephanthhj
    
    Compare Darkstalkers or KOF with Aquapazza and you can obviously tell which is more influenced by anime.
    - SalomeHarras
      
      Err…Darkstalkers is pretty heavily influenced by anime itself…it’s just anime from a different period. KoF has a more unique art style that diverges from what is typically generalized as “anime”, but especially in its later revisions, it became more and more “anime” with time.
    - http://twitter.com/HooliganCombo James Reilly
      
      But…Aquapazza is not an air-dash fighter huehuehue
      
      They are both equally “anime” moron its called different style
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RVTCDH7KD4LOBP22XNRB2J56TM Sean O'donovan
  
  Quality =/= good opening sales, people are just trying to figure out what’s causing the game to sell so well (spoilers, it’s because Japs love the shit out of Persona) because we want to see fighting games be successful.
  - http://twitter.com/HooliganCombo James Reilly
    
    I know right? NOTHING to do with Persona 4 Arena also being the #1 ranked japanese arcade fighter for months played by many noteworthy players and deeming it a solid fighter.It MUST be ALL because its associated to the popular rpg. This is quite the mystery indeed Watson
    - elephanthhj
      
      Denying the obvious correlation with Persona’s popularity as a whole is just silly.
      
      Why so defensive? No one is saying its a bad game.
      - M3SS3NG3R
        
        maybe cuz Sean pretty much said it in his opening line.
      - http://twitter.com/HooliganCombo James Reilly
        
        Denying that being a solid fighter as well contributed to this as a whole is just as equally silly.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Julian-GameHead-Irwin/886765296 Julian GameHead Irwin
  
  Why does it have to be “Capcom Loyalists”?? Why can’t it be “Namco/Tekken loyalist” “NRS/MK loyalists”. Capcom isn’t the only company with a fanbase, so we can stop playing the name brand card already.
  - Narcowski
    
    I agree with this sentiment, but it will always be “Capcom enthusiasts” (more than any of the others) on SRK since SRK is rooted in Capcom’s fighting games.
  - http://www.facebook.com/people/Yan-Zhao/10516382 Yan Zhao
    
    Because its been a proven fact that its mostly the Capcom loyalists that loves to shit on other fighters, especially good ones as they feel their own precious game are threatened. That and the fact that SRK is a Capcom oriented site. Other communities got their own sites (Dream Cancel, Orochinagi, Cyberfanatix, Dustloop, etc)
    
    Just look at this website for proof.
    - JasinWalraven
      
      If you look at this site EVERY new game gets shit on, even capcom ans NRS games
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-Viet-Nguyen/100000070536507 Richard Viet Nguyen
  
  Well, I’m sure it is a good fighting game, you can’t help but also give credit to the original game’s massive popularity contributing to the games launch success. But yes, I certainly do hope it’s a good game, I plan on spending several months on it so it better be.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jacob-Paul-Schmidt/100002318807148 Jacob Paul Schmidt

Your out of your mind. I am a Capcom Fan. Weither the art style is anime or not doesnt mean crap to me. Its logical to say that a game based of its previous titles obviously has support off its predecessors.

Also I never saw a statement that said the game was bad and the only reason its selling is because of P3 and P4FES.
- SalomeHarras
  
  There is no P4 FES. There is a P3 FES and a P4 Golden though.
http://www.facebook.com/yoshiaki.nakano.752 Yoshiaki Nakano

Shout out to a good game
http://twitter.com/JoshuaDocks YungDuran

Speaking of conventional fighters based on RPG’s, anyone else wanna see Arc System Works do an FF fighter?
- http://twitter.com/VanMatthias Matthias
  
  I would be down for any sort of RPG fighter, but would absolutely love a Dragon Quest one. So much potential there with characters, attacks, spells, monsters, stages, puff puff etc.
- http://twitter.com/HooliganCombo James Reilly
  
  Hell that or Kingdom Hearts would sell like hot cakes in the west and east respectively if the quality will be Persona 4 Arena caliber
  - http://www.facebook.com/carlos.a.pascual.3 Carlos Angel Diokno Pascual
    
    Kingdom Hearts has also been running through my mind as much as persona. I would die happily if there was a kingdom hearts FG. XD
    - Donovan Harris
      
      So much licensing…Disney and Square? Also, would Disney want their characters in a FG?
- ZenTzen
  
  Oh definetly yes
  A FG full of FF characters would sell in the millions
- elephanthhj
  
  No I don’t want to see another all-girl fighting game.
  - http://twitter.com/HooliganCombo James Reilly
    
    ^
    was born yesterday on 5th street intersection
- Tsukaku Sakurazuka
  
  Funk that noise. Lets bring out a Chrono Trigger, Star Ocean, Suikoden, or Grandia Fighting Game. lol
- Brian Grissom
  
  Ehrgeiz much?
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Yan-Zhao/10516382 Yan Zhao
  
  An ArcSys style FF fighter would be dope, not like that Dissidia crap that tries to mix RPG into fighting. It just doesnt work.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-Viet-Nguyen/100000070536507 Richard Viet Nguyen
  
  Just give me a legitimate Guilty Gear sequel then they can do whatever they want afterwards.
http://twitter.com/VulcanHades Luisito

I admit the game looks fun but I hate the character designs. They all look so damn ugly and uninteresting. Except for Teddie of course.

Will definitely give this game a try though. The game looks more interesting than Skullgirls.
- shadow111431
  
  What exactly don’t you like about the character designs? It’s not like they made these characters out of thin air with this game being a canon sequel and all.
  - http://twitter.com/VulcanHades Luisito
    
    With a few exception, all the characters look too normal. Just skinny kids wearing normal everyday clothes. They just don’t have charisma.
    
    I haven’t played any Persona game before btw. And I don’t really care how popular the RPGs were. I’m just saying most characters look bland and uninteresting except like 2 or 3.
    - HyalSenseless
      
      Um, the designs are simple because Persona isn’t a game like Final Fantasy, speaking -of course, aside many other things- in terms of design and universe settings. You’re going to find them bland because they go and fight with their school uniforms, and -ignoring their personas, the Midnight Chanell or (in case of P3) the Dark Hour- they are just normal teenagers in our normal world.
      
      And honestly, I am quite tired of girls with obnoxious clothes and unnatural breasts.
      
      Also, sorry about any mistakes, english isn’t my mother language.
      - http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NENYSPUQQ6WX4NP3GNGPE3YB7Y gene p
        
        Same here its like the whole advertising the damn bikini outfits to death thing. One developer advertises bikinis and the other one counters with there own bikini outifts. Really? Is this how fighting game developers are going to compete with each other?
        
        Im not against bikinis or having them in a fighting game however do we really need them advertised like its a focal point of the game? Keep the hentai ads out of my fighting games.
    - http://www.facebook.com/carlos.a.pascual.3 Carlos Angel Diokno Pascual
      
      They actually have a bit of armor under their everyday normal clothes. The only way to get to the usual (an area they’re familiar with) entrance of mayonaka tv is through a tv inside a mall. If they were seen with any sort of armor or weapon, they would have been picked up by the police.
      - HyalSenseless
        
        Oh yes, my bad. They can also wear some specials costumes inside dungeons, but I highly doubt they would include that in this game.
      - http://twitter.com/HooliganCombo James Reilly
        
        You mean picked up by the police again..?
    - shadow111431
      
      Ya but they’re normal(for the most part) high school kids.There’s not much else to it .I mean it’s not like mk where everything is supernatural.
    - http://www.facebook.com/people/Yan-Zhao/10516382 Yan Zhao
      
      Typical idiotic comment from an ignorant SFxT fanboy.
      
      They look normal because they are supposed to be normal high school kids. This aint Final Fantasy.
      
      No charisma? Play the game or watch the anime. Oh but you clearly state you dont care about the series yet makes dumb ignorant judgment, ok. Go play your SFxT you love to defend so much.
      - http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-Viet-Nguyen/100000070536507 Richard Viet Nguyen
        
        Calm down brah, he wasn’t even insulting or criticizing the game, just making an observation. He even admitted the game looked like fun, but the outfits weren’t just that amazing. And as a man who’s played the series as well as SMT I agree with him. Compared to other fighter’s, definitely.
    - http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-Viet-Nguyen/100000070536507 Richard Viet Nguyen
      
      I’ll give you that, compare to Arc’s original characters and their fantabulous and over the top outfits, the Persona kids do look rather bland. But nothing sells better than the simple look and feel of high school kids.
      
      Mmhhhmmm….. short skirts~
Kiwi_Chaos101

Bring it on!
vitalus

i wonder if it will actually become popular? is it as good as kof?
- http://twitter.com/HooliganCombo James Reilly
  
  Popular? Yes. It would depends on your tastes for what you consider “good”. I see myself having more “fun” with this over kof and i play kof more often then recent capcom titles
http://www.facebook.com/people/Robert-Riggenbach/100000575558258 Robert Riggenbach

It’ll do great here, once people pull their heads from their asses and stop hating on Arc works games because they’re in anime style.
Gautam s

Well actually if you count all platforms Super Street Fighter IV is the fastest selling.

PS3+360+3DS == 154K

Persona 4
PS3+360 == 138K
- martin rush
  
  problem is sf4 is garbage and americans love buying garbage.
  - Gautam s
    
    But these are japanese numbers
    - Donovan Harris
      
      lol
- Narcowski
  
  3DS doesn’t count because it’s not a home console.
  PS3 + 360 SFIV (sold more than Super) = 120k
  PS3 + 360 P4A = 138k
- http://twitter.com/HooliganCombo James Reilly
  
  Takes 3 SFIV platforms to beat 2 Persona 4 Arena platforms.
  
  mkay
  
  doubt the 3DS port hardly qualifies as a “conventional fighter”
  - Gautam s
    
    I was just joking … Besides fastest selling isnt really something big , lets see how long it lasts.
    
    But am honestly surprised to see how low SF has fallen in Japan ,I was looking at previous numbers and games like SF 2,ST,Alpha used to do 500k in japan alone.
    - http://www.facebook.com/people/Yan-Zhao/10516382 Yan Zhao
      
      Thats because SF is more popular in America, cause Japan actually play other fighters.
http://www.facebook.com/Haipa.Sonikku Antonio Murray

Time for some much need clarification about this “sales chart” for those that have read the original article.

1. There are seven days in a week. Not four.

2. Media Create (Japan), unlike NPD (North America) and GFK Chart-Track (United Kingdom) does not combine platform sales for a game. This article was clearly title “Console P4U” not to highlight the fact that the PS3 version (128,485) outsold the Xbox 360 (9,801) version 13X over.

3. In the article it states that “It is now the new best selling “conventional” fighting game in the past 4 years”. Fighting games is fighting games and the fact that Dissidia Final Fantasy and Dissidia: 012 (Duodecim) Final Fantasy on that list cements that.

4. Gundam Extreme VS. (PS3 exclusive) is at #3
with 349,756, NOT Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena. Actually Gundam
Extreme VS. is at the #4 for this next point.

5. Now again remember. Dissidia is on that list so. Ahem. There’s this game. I’m sure you’ve heard of it. Goes by the name of Dairanto Smash Brothers X or Super Smash Bros. Brawl. It sold EIGHT HUNDRED AND NINETEEN THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AND FORTY SEVEN (819,647) copies in a week by far putting it at the top as “the bestselling FG in past 4
years”.
- http://twitter.com/HooliganCombo James Reilly
  
  1.The rule of thumb for “business week” for sales charts usually do roughly 4 days, not the full 7 days in a “traditional week”.
  
  2. Your point? Japan don’t give a crap about Xbox 360 in comparison which is evident in ALL the fighters on the chart. FYI Persona games was never on xbox before so why should they start?
  
  3. Nope fighting games have various sub-categories and the Dissidia games is widely considered NOT a “conventional fighter”
  
  4. Keyword “conventional fighter”
  
  5. ^ More emphasis on above point if you consider Brawl of all games “conventional”
- Gautam s
  
  Why do people care so much for sales anyway , It doesnt always relate to number of players….. KOF sells like crap and we all know how many players it has.
  
  Look at something like tekken , sellls 3m lol … more like it sold 1m in its first few months then scamco decided to shove the rest of the copies at 10$ a piece.Whereas something like SF4 gets replaced with SSF4
  
  And its not really fair to compare first part titles , tons of sales come from bundles ..etc. Just watch how much Sony will sell PSABR
  - Donovan Harris
    
    Brawl was bundled?
Los Illuminados

“will the game have similar success here in America?” heh heh heh….surely u jest. it may not have huge success like in Japan but it will have some success in America as well. USA has their heads up in the asses of Capcom fighting games too much. so it will be hard for any other fighting game to have huge success in USA. P4A may be a fighting game but don’t forget it’s a part of an JRPG series that has anime and manga as well. so Fans of those will support P4A along whatever FGC members that enjoy P4A. i am looking forward to the day when fighting games like KOF and Persona beat SF and Marvel here in the states. as it will be gorgeous day to behold!
http://twitter.com/GrSchu Greg S

Will be playing the shit out of this game with some friends on the 7th
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000504766571 Milton O’Bannon

Huge Persona/FG fan. My body is ready.
EDGEucator

“Conventional Fighting Game” , Might as well say “Besides Smash Brothers Wii , which sold over 800k in it’s first week” if your gonna be an ignorant ass about it.
But besides that shit , happy for the P4A Team. Congrats ya’ll.
- http://twitter.com/HooliganCombo James Reilly
  
  Your saying as if Brawl matters as a “conventional fighter”
  
  talk about being “ignorant ass”
http://www.facebook.com/illness690 John Taylor

Just preordered my copy today
Troy Dalton

God, staple anything to an RPG franchise and Japan will bend over for you. P4A looks cool, but seeing those numbers for Dissidia [lulz] is disheartening.
- http://handsomefatman.com/ Carlos Alexandre
  
  This is partly why I want Gears of War Judgement to be a turn-based tactical RPG developed by the Enix side of Squeenix.
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truendorf

How’s about a Disgaea fighting. Ah? Ah?…..
CircleBoi6

I wish this game will also be released on the Vita later.
CircleBoi6

I hope that this game will be released for the Vita later.
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