Happy 2019 – 9 years of SEGAbits!
App data insights and analytics company App Annie reports that Sakura Revolution was the most downloaded game on Japan’s Google Play Store in December 2020. Per the agency, the title saw more downloads than Punishing: Grey Raven (Hero Entertainment), Among Us! (InnerSloth), and Roof Rails (Voodoo) during the period.App Annie also reports that the title did not break into the top-10 highest grossing Android titles for the month.
It looks like SEGA continues to gather up world records in the arcade space, previously they had the impressive Guinness World Record for “Most Prolific Producer of Arcade Game Machines with over 500 different games”. Not a huge fan of claw machines but I do like the idea of having SEGA’s name in the world record book even if its GENDA SEGA.
Numbers and spreadsheets aren’t always fun, but somehow Football Manager turns all of that into some of the most exhilarating experiences ever. The nail-biting stress of guiding your team to victory has never felt so good, and Football Manager 2021 is the definitive football manager experience.
Like many, we were initially apprehensive when it was announced the next entry in the Yakuza series would be an RPG. These fears were quickly cast aside.The world through protagonist Ichiban’s eyes made perfect sense, and an ideal fit for a series that manage to marry serious drama with sheer absurdity.
Ahead of its launch this week, Persona 5 Strikers has managed to steal a spot on the top selling games for Steam, on PC.The Persona 5 spinoff, developed by both Atlus’ internal P-Studio and Koei Tecmo’s Omega Force studio, managed to nab the 10th spot in Steam’s current top ten best-selling games.
Following its Western release on February 23, 2021, Persona 5 Strikers debuted at a strong 3rd overall position in terms of dollar sales (and not units sold), while it was the 3rd best selling game solely on PlayStation platforms.This places Persona 5 Strikers as the ninth best selling game in the U.S. for the year of 2021 so far.
Metacritic has released their list of the publishers with the highest average metascore for games released in 2020, and it comes at no surprise that SEGA is NUMBER ONE.We here at SEGAbits have seen SEGA’s 2020 output and can easily see why they’d take the top spot. Release good games, get good results!
