Sonic Series Sells Over 1 Million Units from April to June 2023

The Sonic the Hedgehog game series has sold over 1.2 million units over the last three months, according to the latest financial results from SEGA's corporate body SEGA Sammy Holdings.

During SEGA's first quarter of FY2024 (April 1 - June 30, 2023), Sonic series game sales reached approximately 1.22 million units, a drop of nearly 240,000 copies compared to the same period the previous year, but still pretty impressive.

Although these results were not further broken down by game, it's safe to assume that the lion's share came from continuing sales of Sonic Frontiers. The open-zone adventure game originally released last November, but has received free content updates in March and June, which is likely to have sustained interest in the title. Sonic Origins Plus also released in June and would have contributed to the sales figure above, but sales were only tracked for a week so we are more likely to see the impact of this release in the next quarter.

Elsewhere in its fiscal report, SEGA announced that overall sales were up 63% year-on-year to ¥108 billion ($756.9 million) and their operating income rose 712% to ¥22.5 billion ($123 million). Further games growth of around 9%  is expected throughout the rest of the year - due to the upcoming release of titles such as Sonic Superstars and Persona 5 Tactica.

Overall, it sounds like SEGA is in a great place right now, and with Superstars and more Frontiers DLC right around the corner it seems like the Sonic series is going to experience one fantastic sales year.

via Final Weapon and MyNintendoNews