You’re sarcastic but Atlus Twitter is basically a fanboy safespace. The demand was huge while they were fumbling the “Joker in Smash” bag, to the point that Atlus fans were like “They don’t owe you anything omg port begging is so annoying”. Therefore, having the common sense of asking for ports of their games to a platform that is not only the market leader but also has a clear audience for the game, this became pejorative for them. Even the Xbox rumors were met more positively because “They can get ports + gamepass like they did for Yakuza, gotta build the Japanese games audience for Xbox they can get that”. Now those same people are laughing at “Switch owner meltdowns” because they need to touch grass as they say, imagine having pleasure in witnessing the most stupid tone-deaf videogame company in history
The Direct is the last hope but again, this situation is so strange. The only comparable is the Square stuff from last year. Does Persona matters that much to the point that Nintendo needs to have their own presentation to announce that the game is coming to their system? This would have been perfectly fine for this to not take any additional Direct time and just tweet it. Remember when Switch got FF VII to XII? That was a very climactic direct announcement. Xbox didn’t save these news for a presentation or something, they just made a pretty climactic tweet of their own. If the game are coming, it’s either another very strange situation with no precedent (btw remember when Klonoa was supposed to release first on Switch), or it would be a case of Nintendo publishing the game like they do for Dragon Quest. If not, well again Atlus are beyond incompetent, their DS/3DS input are flukes and Nintendo shouldn’t even bother to fund anymore of their games, they need to go Yamauchi on them at this point