Sega Sammy has just announced that Atlus’s new role-playing title, Metaphor: ReFantazio, has reached the staggering two million in sales. The accomplishment is indeed impressive for the game, but the sales curve shows a very clear trend towards front-loading interest, with a clear faltering in its commercial momentum after launch.
Metaphor: ReFantazio, which was released on October 11, 2024, on PC and consoles, reached one million copies within its first day. The opening record was a new high for Atlus and the studio’s highest-selling title. But subsequent figures announced at Sega’s Management Meeting on June 18 revealed that whereas the game hit two million units during the end of fiscal year 2025 on March 31, sales growth momentum slowed sharply in the following months.
This performance is relatively unusual compared to the long-term commercial stamina normally seen among Sega’s wider catalog, whereby games of longer tenure have a penchant for achieving long-term commercial well-being, sometimes even outpacing fresher releases. Whereas Metaphor: ReFantazio’s initial boom outpaced even the initial sales of Persona 5—a game which sold two million units worldwide following roughly two and a half months—its trajectory following release would indicate it won’t equal the general sales viability of its highly praised predecessor in the longer term. Considered in the broader context, Persona 5 and all its different permutations has sold a combined total of roughly ten million copies up through mid-2025.
As much as there is a clear deceleration of sales pace, it only makes sense that Metaphor: ReFantazio generated significant revenue since it’s a brand new game with a greater initial price point and not as dramatic discounts within the reporting quarter. Its overall sales trend seems to be closer to other spin-off games like Persona 5 Strikers, which reached two million sales around three and a half years since launch. While the game’s initial success was unquestioned, its long-term presence in the market is an area of observation within the industry.
