from Hacker News

Sega mistakenly reveals sales numbers of popular games

by kelt on 6/21/25, 6:23 AM with 217 comments

• by b0a04gl on 6/21/25, 9:30 AM

  persona 5 royal doing 7.25mil and sega still acting like it's some niche anime side hustle. meanwhile they keep pushing sonic into every genre except tax software

• by v5v3 on 6/21/25, 8:45 AM

  The real story here is the highlighting of the flawed attempt to redact a document.

  Happens a lot.

• by deafpolygon on 6/21/25, 6:59 AM

  It’s amazing how valuable of an IP Sonic is. It still sells consistently well after all those years.

  I’m surprised even more at the P5R sales! I might actually have to give it a real try— tried it a couple years ago (P5 non-R) and didn’t really take to it, but I was put off by the whole anime vibe.

• by koshergweilo on 6/21/25, 6:50 AM

  It's wild to me how Team Sonic Racing sold more than Total War Three Kingdoms

• by throwaway743 on 6/21/25, 8:55 AM

  Surprised Like A Dragon sales are lower than others. Been gaming since a kid in the 90s, and it easily ranked in my top 10. It's an instant classic.

• by m4tthumphrey on 6/21/25, 10:26 PM

  Off topic: how can anyone use that website. The ads are pure aids.

• by robin_reala on 6/21/25, 8:46 AM

  A reminder that Apple’s Preview app has Redact functionality specifically for this use case: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/preview/prvw11580/mac

• by mrweasel on 6/21/25, 3:30 PM

  Why would Sega not reveal sales number for each game?

• by camcil on 6/21/25, 7:19 PM

  I would've imagined these numbers to be much more than they are.

• by StefanBatory on 6/21/25, 9:09 AM

  To see WH3 sell less than Three Kingdoms was a surprise to me.

• by consumer451 on 6/21/25, 8:58 AM

  Only somewhat related, but a very cool link:

  > These retro SEGA games are now free on Android (and iOS) until they disappear forever

  https://www.androidauthority.com/sega-retro-games-android-fr...

• by dghughes on 6/21/25, 2:18 PM

  Sega in 2025? I thought they disappeared decades ago.

• by swarnie on 6/21/25, 7:24 AM

  Video game consumers have always baffled me and this data just adds to it.

  Who are the 7 million people going out to buy the 20th Persona game? What are you actually hoping to get from it that isn't just a slight variance on something you've already had multiple times before?

  I have friends genuinely excited to go buy Mario Cart for the 17th time this year... Once you've made two objects move along an enclosed route at differing speeds and slapped Nintendo marketing on top hasn't the game play evolved as much as possible?

  Could the money not be better spent coming up with new and interesting concepts rather than copy pasting the same stuff out every 12-18 months?