You're not alone in feeling that way as a matter of fact I've sworn to myself that I will never buy another game from them ever again 「or any 3rd party for that matter」 I don't care if they decide to support Nintendo 100% in the future I will never buy any product that they make ever again.
I actually mispelled, it was meant to be P4, sorry. I'll edit the post.
I just want to say go play Xenoblade. All of them.
The biggest thing for 3, 4, 5 is the structure. During the day you attend high school and then in the afternoon you can choose how to spend your time whether that’s entering a dungeon to slay demons, hanging out with friends, or leveling up your social stats. You don’t have infinite time as each day advances the calendar and certain activities will be blocked off depending on the day of the week or if something story related is happening. The social sim effects the demon slaying because leveling up your friendships grants you new abilities.
Don’t worry they’ll somehow add more like we saw in Catherine Full Body
I see what you are doing here.
The ol reverse-psychology switcheroo technique
Ok, I'll play along.
My thinking flows roughly:
a) the market for JRPGs is healthy on the switch. The switch is super popular. The switch is Uber popular in Japan
b) contrary to whimsy, Atlus likes to be profitable in their game releases, is comprised of individuals who ultimately are held responsible for positive RoI decisions, and will thus make logical decisions to deploy their production resources to the best of their ability
c) contrary to the weird "Atlus hates Nintendo" vibe being percolated, Sega in general and Atlus in particular have worked super well w/ Nintendo directly and on Nintendo platforms overall in terms of development support
d) Sega/Atlus want to grow their capabilities, as demonstrated by the multi-plat day/date release initiative for Soul Hackers 2
e) Persona is popular and will make lots of money while making lots of videogame players happy the more platforms it is available on
f) Persona games up thru 5 can run on switch hardware
g) Atlus has made the efforts to target or port to switch most of their recent output, to mostly positive results
h) Persona, until recently, was suspected of being Playstation-only. This notion has been emphatically shattered as of June 2022 (and maybe before)
i) an insider that I respect is confident Persona 3+4 will touch down on switch fosho (possibly cagey w 5 tho, aw)
j) the industry's most popular streaming event is barreling down at end of june. And it just so happens that release dates have not been given for the other platforms
So that's what has my hopes up for news in the Summer Direct.
I'll tell you what tho, this summer direct is kinda hinting at an overflow of JRPG goodness. Let's consider the potential appearances of:
- Xenoblade
- Fire Emblem
- Tactics Ogre OMGgggg
- FF Tactics
- Live a Live
- Dragon Quest 3
- Final fantasy 9
And now maybe Persona.
I dunno, maybe just me, that's kind of a glut of JRPG Juice. Something's gotta give?
So maybe Persona holds off til a later Direct where it can take center stage. Since I think we all agree that Tactics Ogre Hnnnggg takes top priority followed by I guess Fire Emblem or Xeno. And then obligatory 2 or 3 other Square joints.
The issue with that is Atlus chose June to announce the port initiative which hints to me that at least the first of those Persona ports will drop soon. Curiously, they haven't said When, but I think there is shadow-drop potential here.
So My personal playbook:
1) Summer Direct, announce Persona 3+4+5
2) Shadoooow drooppp 3 , “stay tuned" for future release dates of the others
3) Fast-forward to Fall Direct, Shadoooow drooppp 4. And announce 5 release date for holiday
4) Profit
5) Tactics Ogre!!!! sales announced to break 2 million. New Ogre Battle saga game is greenlit
I think that all sounds reasonable.
Alright then, on my part, I think it's reasonable to at least wait till the next Direct before dismissing the possibility.
Don't forget, P5R could be a later port for Switch and they might reveal the games in September Direct instead. P4G and P3P are 2023 games anyway. Dream still would be alive if they are absent from this month's Direct.
Personally if they’re not shown at the next Direct, I get off the train. The problem is we can make credible extensions for “this will get announced at ___” perpetually. I’m not even saying the reasoning isn’t sound. I’m just saying that after a while of it not manifesting, you sort of get tired of waiting for it. Even if the reasons are valid.
I'm not the greatest persona fan and I don't really think this is a game that could bring someone back or into rpgs, honestly. But I do think P5 is a fairly good games, with nice designs of monsters and dungeos, a really cool gameplay design and some interactive world / relationship mechanics that are quite fun. However, be aware that the game is loooooong (I have finished p5 vanilla in about 120h, without doing everything) and it is full of anime tropes. I haven't played P5R so I wouldn't know how it really improved on the previous game, but I'm not really willing to spend 120+ hours on this story again, even after enjoying my playthrough. I do intend on playing P3 and P4 once they are available for modern consoles - probably on the switch, if it is a thing, because this type of gameplay loop seems to be a good fit for small handheld game sessions ( I know both games are SO DIFFERENT, but I do think another game that has a gameplay loop that suits this is Fire Emblem. I just can't imagine playing FE only on a TV, really)
yeah, I'm going to give P5R a shot on xbox because I have gamepass already, but I bounced super hard off of 5 after loving 3 & 4, we shall see. I didn't know they removed the homophobic shit in royal, it will be nice to play a persona game that doesn't call me a faggot randomly
Seriously, one way or the other the Direct will put this to rest lol. I just need off this train.
Nah mate, speaking only for myself, after the last announcements, I’m basically done with believing mainline persona is coming to Switch, BUT, some very credible people I respect a lot insist it’s still happening so I’m basically giving myself copium for up to the next Direct lol. If it’s not at the next Direct, I’ll bounce off this ride. Happy to be proven wrong in the future of course, but it’s too exhausting to keep this going lol.
This train is a circle line. It has no stops, just moments of darkness as it passes through tunnels. Long, long moments of darkness.
Idk, I feel like they’re usually right, apart from Mass Effect trilogy instance.
Didn’t we have Best Buy listing link to the last and Metroid prime trilogy early in switch’s life? Not sure retailers are always the best, but probably a decent shot.
Is Royal confirmed to be a retail release as well? I could see Atlus releasing it only digital on Xbox
This time this retailer guesses for every version of the game. Physical version of the game hasn't been confirmed for the new versions either. Either they know something or opening preorders on their own is their thing.
where there listings for soul hackers 2 switch
Not even retailers expect Atlus to made such logical decision
This comes off as very unhealthy somehow, maybe just out of context.
