Persona 5: The Phantom X Beats Persona 5 Royal’s Steam Player Count On Day One

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Persona 5: The Phantom X was always going to be a divisive one. It takes the best parts of the Persona series, specifically 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Persona 5, and adds a bunch of gacha and pay-to-play mechanics. It's a fully-fledged Persona RPG, and a compelling ♊follow-up to Persona 5, complete with life-sim elements, fierce Persona battles, and trips to Mementos, but the free-to-play monetization could have put long-time fans off.

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That doesn't seem to be the case, though, at least initially, as P🔯ersona 5: The Phantom X has already beaten Persona 5: Royal's peak Steam concurrent player count.

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According to , on its launch, Persona 5: The Phantom X reached a peak of 41,622 players— a solid showing. By comparison, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Persona 5 Royal managed 35.474 players at its peak, giving The Phantom X around a 15 percent increase 🃏over its predℱecessor.

There are more than a few things to take into consideration here, however. The Persona brand♓ has exploded in popularity, arguably as a result of Persona 5 Royal and , so that game's peak was never going to be huge.

Persona 5: The Phantom X is also a free-to-play game, meaning there 🎃is no monetary outlay for players to dip their toes in and see if they can work around its꧋ monetization.

The bigger test for the Phantom X will be to see if it can surpass 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Persona 3 Reload's concurrent player count on Steam. That peaked at 45,002 at launch, holding the record for any game in the series. It's unlikely, but not impossible, that the game surpasses 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Metaphor: ReFantazio's peak, which currently stands at 85,961.

The game𓆏 does have a long way to go in terms of reviews, compared ꦗto other Persona games, sitting at a "" 72 percent.

In our Persona 5: The Phantom X 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:review in progress, we said, "As far as mobile games go, the monetization doesn’t seem too forced in that you could play and happily hit pause to wait for things to replenish before progressing further and never spend a penny. Whether I stick with it because the narrative and gameplay steal my attention (and my heart), or whether I bounce off because 💯I get too frustrated by monetization roadblocks remains to be seen, though."

While its long-term legs remain to be seen, Persona 5: The Phantom X's day one player countꩵ is a testament to how powerful the Persona IP has become over the last few 💟years. Let's just see how many stick around, given its brazen monetization.