While some of us European folks still wait for the European release of Catherine, which is scheduled for early 2012, Atlus have today announced that Catherine has passed the 500,000 copies sold mark. The company failed to divulge any precise figures for each territory, but since we know that Media Create has it down as reaching 200,000 units in Japan, the US's share isn't too difficult to work out.

http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/24965/500000-Copies-of-Catherine-Sold-Worldwide/

Catherine is a Good Game.

LOVE IS OVER!

Congrats to Atlus.

Congratulations to Atlus!

You know; after i played Catherine... I noticed that the parts that i most enjoyed were the Nightmare Sections.

Persona 3 is their best-selling game and it sold around 800k copies I think. So yeah, Catherine has done good.

For an obscure and weird game like Catherine, that's pretty good.

For an obscure and weird game like Catherine, that's pretty good.

@MikeGosot said:

@Hourai: I think Persona 4 was their best selling game. At least in NA.

I'm pretty sure it was, but counting both the regular Persona 3 and FES it definitely comes out on top. I wish I saved the chart when it was posted before.

Good for Atlus. At least, I think 500k is a good number. I don't know anymore.

@MikeGosot said:

@Hourai: I think Persona 4 was their best selling game. At least in NA.

I'm pretty sure it was, but counting both the regular Persona 3 and FES it definitely comes out on top. I wish I saved the chart when it was posted before.

They deserve it. Fantastic game.

Not sure if that's a good number but if it is, hooray!

I have no idea what people see in that game, congratulations anyway I guess.

@NekuSakuraba said:

Not sure if that's a good number but if it is, hooray!

It is a good number. A really good number. Mass Effect 2 was extremely popular and it sold around two million copies, so for a quirky game like Catherine to do this well is something pretty commendable.

They've shipped 500k, which is different than sold 500k, but it's still an enormous success for them. Grats to Atlus all the same though.

So worldwide means what? Canada, US and Japan?

Right.

@49th said:

I have no idea what people see in that game, congratulations anyway I guess.

It has a decent story, it plays well and it's something different. There, now you can see it.

@Winternet said:

Good for Atlus. At least, I think 500k is a good number. I don't know anymore.

For many games, it's an excellent sales number.

That's really good to know. Atlus deserves those numbers.

Though Catherine is not my favourite Atlus game, I'm really happy that so many people decided to take a chance on something new and a bit strange. Congrats to Atlus!

That's not particularly good for a game with so many dedicated fans... Super Meat Boy is a tiny little indie game and has sold ~600,000 copies.

Why the delay in Europe?

@AlexW00d said:

That's not particularly good for a game with so many dedicated fans... Super Meat Boy is a tiny little indie game and has sold ~600,000 copies.

Super Meat Boy was only $15.

Still play the nightmare sections on occasion just for kicks. That game is so good.

@Hourai said:

@AlexW00d said:

That's not particularly good for a game with so many dedicated fans... Super Meat Boy is a tiny little indie game and has sold ~600,000 copies.

Super Meat Boy was only $15.

That makes no difference. It also didn't get advertised at all due to Microsoft fucking Team Meat over.

@AlexW00d said:

@Hourai said:

@AlexW00d said:

That's not particularly good for a game with so many dedicated fans... Super Meat Boy is a tiny little indie game and has sold ~600,000 copies.

Super Meat Boy was only $15.

That makes no difference. It also didn't get advertised at all due to Microsoft fucking Team Meat over.

It does. Comparing the sales of a $10-15 downloadable game to a $60 retail game isn't really the greatest comparison. Super Meat Boy created a lot of buzz online and Steam was a huge part of the sales too. Atlus definitely has dedicated fans, but they aren't too numerous. The only franchise of theirs that is really popular is the Persona series, so Catherine doing this well is great.

i bought my copy yesterday.....i like to think i made a difference

awesome, glad to see it's sold well and with a EU release i hope it sells even better.
 
Hey ATLUS *whisper* how about another Catherine like game with a girl as the main... huh... huh?!

Awesome.

@Hourai said:

@AlexW00d said:

That's not particularly good for a game with so many dedicated fans... Super Meat Boy is a tiny little indie game and has sold ~600,000 copies.

Super Meat Boy was only $15.

That makes no difference. It also didn't get advertised at all due to Microsoft fucking Team Meat over.

Hey ATLUS *whisper* how about another Catherine like game with a girl as the main... huh... huh?!

Good for them even though I think that game is bad.

500,000K so soon after release is not bad at all, and since Atlus is one of the few RESPONSIBLE companies in gaming, they probably got much more than they spent for development.

Just goes to show that a smart developer can make more with less.

Hopefully they use some of that to bring the next Persona game to PS3 and 360. I will be bummed if it is on PS2 or just for PS3 because I wouldn't be able to play it. Congrats to them nonetheless.

Maybe I'm expecting too much but 500k doesn't seem like a lot.

@JasonR86 said:

Maybe I'm expecting too much but 500k doesn't seem like a lot.

Japanese games often are made so they don't need to sell 7 figures to be profitable. Catherine was likely made to break even with about 250K in sales worldwide if not fewer.

I bought one of those!!!!!

Hooray for me! Hooray for them!

@endaround said:

@JasonR86 said:

Maybe I'm expecting too much but 500k doesn't seem like a lot.

Japanese games often are made so they don't need to sell 7 figures to be profitable.

Ok, I hope that is the case. I don't own the game but I like the developer and want them to have success.

I'm still waiting for the game over Europe. :(

@JasonR86 said:

@endaround said:

@JasonR86 said:

Maybe I'm expecting too much but 500k doesn't seem like a lot.

Japanese games often are made so they don't need to sell 7 figures to be profitable.

Ok, I hope that is the case. I don't own the game but I like the developer and want them to have success.

Atlus is a very small developer. For them, 500,000 sold worldwide is a larger-than-average figure in terms of their successes.

@Catolf said:

Hey ATLUS *whisper* how about another Catherine like game with a girl as the main... huh... huh?!

It'd be very surprising to see a video game where a female character is portrayed as much as a loser as Vincent is, especially as the main character.

@Hailinel said:

@JasonR86 said:

@endaround said:

@JasonR86 said:

Maybe I'm expecting too much but 500k doesn't seem like a lot.

Japanese games often are made so they don't need to sell 7 figures to be profitable.

Ok, I hope that is the case. I don't own the game but I like the developer and want them to have success.

Atlus is a very small developer. For them, 500,000 sold worldwide is a larger-than-average figure in terms of their successes.

This is a little off topic but I thought Atlus was just the American publisher. I thought the developer was the Japanese team behind the Persona games.

Proud to be part of that 500k.
 
@JasonR86: Atlus is the developer in Japan, behind the Persona series, but Atlus has an American branch that localizes, touches up, and publishes the games here in America. They have no publishing arm in Europe, however.

@Turambar said:

@FluxWaveZ said:

@Catolf said:

Hey ATLUS *whisper* how about another Catherine like game with a girl as the main... huh... huh?!

It'd be very surprising to see a video game where a female character is portrayed as much as a loser as Vincent is, especially as the main character.

You wouldn't get two steps out the door before someone screams misogyny,

they don't even have to be portrayed as a loser, necessarily, because then it would be exactly like Catherine only instead of Cathy and Kathy it'd be like, Carl and Karl

@JasonR86 said:

@Hailinel said:

@JasonR86 said:

@endaround said:

@JasonR86 said:

Maybe I'm expecting too much but 500k doesn't seem like a lot.

Japanese games often are made so they don't need to sell 7 figures to be profitable.

Ok, I hope that is the case. I don't own the game but I like the developer and want them to have success.

Atlus is a very small developer. For them, 500,000 sold worldwide is a larger-than-average figure in terms of their successes.

This is a little off topic but I thought Atlus was just the American publisher. I thought the developer was the Japanese team behind the Persona games.

Atlus is both a publisher and developer in Japan, and their catalog of games extends well outside of just Persona. Atlus USA publishes their games in North America, as well as titles they license from other Japanese developers, as was the case for Demon's Souls.

@Turambar said:

@FluxWaveZ said:

@Catolf said:

Hey ATLUS *whisper* how about another Catherine like game with a girl as the main... huh... huh?!

It'd be very surprising to see a video game where a female character is portrayed as much as a loser as Vincent is, especially as the main character.

You wouldn't get two steps out the door before someone screams misogyny,

they don't even have to be portrayed as a loser, necessarily, because then it would be exactly like Catherine only instead of Cathy and Kathy it'd be like, Carl and Karl

@Turambar said:

@AlexW00d said:

@Hourai said:

@AlexW00d said:

That's not particularly good for a game with so many dedicated fans... Super Meat Boy is a tiny little indie game and has sold ~600,000 copies.

Super Meat Boy was only $15.

That makes no difference. It also didn't get advertised at all due to Microsoft fucking Team Meat over.

By the logic every game has shitty sales because Angry Birds.

Not even slightly. A small budget platform game, by an unknown developer, and a big budget (by comparison) puzzle-come-dating-sim by a well renowned, moderately known developer seems a valid case to me.

And if your still unsatisfied, what about the Witcher 2? That game is only on PC (for now) had very little marketing, by an unknown developer, and it has sold 1.2 million copies in 5 months.

@Afroman269 said:

Good for them even though I think that game is bad.

Also this.

@AlexW00d said:

Not even slightly. A small budget platform game, by an unknown developer, and a big budget (by comparison) puzzle-come-dating-sim by a well renowned, moderately known developer seems a valid case to me.

And if your still unsatisfied, what about the Witcher 2? That game is only on PC (for now) had very little marketing, by an unknown developer, and it has sold 1.2 million copies in 5 months.

I think you are incredibly out of touch with what Atlus actually is. Catherine is one of their best selling game of all time.

Most of their games barely hit 60K worldwide.

@JasonR86 said:

This is a little off topic but I thought Atlus was just the American publisher. I thought the developer was the Japanese team behind the Persona games.

The Persona team is housed at Atlus.