The blue hedgehog is more popular than ever: sales of the action-platformer Sonic Frontiers are approaching 3 million copies

Sega has released its financial report for the third quarter of fiscal 2023.

Here's What We Know

We won't go into the boring numbers of the financial documents, we'll turn our attention to what's interesting to gamers.

The report says that Sega's third quarter sales and operating profit rose, and the company has raised its forecasts for the full fiscal year results. That's pretty amazing, especially when compared to reports from other gaming companies where revenues and profits are down and forecasts for the full year results are down.

The reason for Sega's success was the release of action platformer Sonic Frontiers and the re-release of Persona 5 with the subtitle Royal for current platforms.

For example, sales of the new Sonic game exceeded 2.9 million copies, while sales of the Persona 5 Royal re-release reached over 1.3 million copies.