Taking a few steps back to June of this year, PC players were surprisingly met with a port for the PlayStation Vita exclusive title, Persona 4 Golden. The re-release for keyboard & mouse players is an optimized version of the 2012 title that posed as a definitive edition of the titular 2008 PlayStation 2 game offering new content for additional play time.
Despite the player base on Steam – the platform the game debuted on PC for – is less familiar with the series, the game did perform higher than expected for both developer Atlus and publisher Sega. In that, the title was reported to exceed 500,000 copies sold in less than a month of its release. Now, the team is looking to expand its repertoire of titles to other platforms following its recent success.
According to first quarter financial results released by Sega Sammy, the documentation was also paired with a following investor Q&A which disclosed the publisher’s ambitions to pursue more ports from Atlus. In response to the recent performance of Persona 4 Golden on Steam, one investor asks about the firm’s future plans on the platform:
Q: “Persona 4 the Golden” has been selling well on Steam, but do you have any plans to sell newly released games on Steam as well?
A: 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.
In future reference of Sega’s initiative to revitalize older Atlus titles on newer hardware, the firm did not spare details on what property can be expected next or where it will arrive on. However, the publisher has already illustrated to bring its previous catalogue to other systems. Those being the release of Catherine: Full Body on Nintendo Switch last month and the coming Shin Migami Tensei: III Nocturne HD Remastered arriving in early 2021.
Additionally, Atlus has been found to be polling its user base to learn which titles the fans would like to see be redistributed on Nintendo Switch. Among more than a dozen titles featured on the list, the two mentioned titles were already made public to arrive to the Nintendo eShop. You can read the full report by heading here.
What Atlus projects would you like to see be resurrected for newer systems?
Source: Persona Central
