{"id":5352,"date":"2025-06-22T13:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T13:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/5352\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T13:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T13:58:09","slug":"segas-accidentally-outed-sales-numbers-put-a-lot-into-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/5352\/","title":{"rendered":"SEGA&#8217;s Accidentally Outed Sales Numbers Put a Lot into Context"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"SEGA&#039;s Accidentally Outed Sales Numbers Put a Lot into Context 1\" href=\"https:\/\/images.pushsquare.com\/537072ecedde1\/segas-accidentally-outed-sales-numbers-put-a-lot-into-context-1.large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/segas-accidentally-outed-sales-numbers-put-a-lot-into-context-1.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"SEGA's Accidentally Outed Sales Numbers Put a Lot into Context 1\"\/><\/a>Image: Push Square<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s so rare we get meaningful sales data from publishers, unless a title has performed exceptionally well. But we found this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/GamingLeaksAndRumours\/comments\/1lghsvb\/sega_accidently_leaks_6_years_of_sales_data_for\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accidentally uploaded<\/a> information from SEGA fascinating, because it actually clues us in to the real-world performance of a number of titles.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s all of the data, as archived by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.resetera.com\/threads\/sega-sammy-fiscal-report-mishap-reveals-sales-numbers-for-a-dozen-titles-lad-iw-1-66m-p3r-2-07m-sonic-frontiers-4-57m-p5r-7-25m-and-more.1224501\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ResetEra<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>The following numbers were also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.resetera.com\/threads\/sega-updates-sales-of-sonic-x-shadow-generations-2-3-million-and-metaphor-2-million-in-latest-fiscal-report.1224396\/#post-141755541\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">officially confirmed<\/a> by SEGA, accurate as of 31st March, 2025:<\/p>\n<p>The first thing we thought of here was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/final_fantasy_xvi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Final Fantasy 16<\/a>, which has been very publicly derided as a sales disaster. Of course, budgets and expectations differ between projects, but its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/news\/2023\/06\/ps5-exclusive-final-fantasy-16-hits-a-slightly-skewed-3-million-sales-at-launch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">three million units on a single platform<\/a> in just a few days doesn\u2019t look bad at all when put into the context of these multiformat releases.<\/p>\n<p>While we wouldn\u2019t have expected spin-off title Like a Dragon: The Man Who Erased His Name to have performed particularly well, the full-scale sequel Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth looks a bit disappointing at just 1.66 million units sold.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also interesting to see the power of Sonic: we\u2019d never have expected Team Sonic Racing, a game which feels like it never really got much recognition and love, to have done so well. It\u2019s also good to see Sonic Frontiers rewarded, as it does feel like a viable blueprint for the Blue Blur moving forwards \u2013 although we suspect that game relied on heavy discounting to sell so many copies.<\/p>\n<p>Fascinating stuff, nonetheless. Obviously, like we alluded to earlier, all projects have different budgets and expectations associated with them, so you can\u2019t read too much into what\u2019s a success and what\u2019s not. But it\u2019s still quite intriguing to see the numbers laid bare like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Push Square It\u2019s so rare we get meaningful sales data from publishers, unless a title has performed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3195,2432,6794,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-5352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-industry","9":"tag-sales","10":"tag-sega","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114727374287981258","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}