Silver Arrows
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Persona 5 Trailer 2
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Never.
It is not impossible... but very unlikely.
What's funny is that Atlus Japan is kind of an anomaly among popular Japanese developers that haven't come to Steam yet. Before it used to be the opposite.
It's one heck of a world when Idea Factory beats you to the punch on recognizing a market though. I won't let them live that down.
Newtype-001
Member
There is a chance but very slim. If it does happen itll be atleast 4+ years away.
Kudo
Member
I don't think 2015 release date is that unreal, maybe for EU but we can import it so I don't personally mind too much even if we get it late, I have no intention of waiting for this anyway.
With Persona 5 getting on Youtubes front page I hope they realized this is their big chance, though I doubt this but maybe Sony is helping them with marketing and they plan to go out with bang. Who knows, there's still months to December and that's when I think it'll hit the markets so starting marketing now would be too early anyway.
With Persona 5 getting on Youtubes front page I hope they realized this is their big chance, though I doubt this but maybe Sony is helping them with marketing and they plan to go out with bang. Who knows, there's still months to December and that's when I think it'll hit the markets so starting marketing now would be too early anyway.
cj_iwakura
Member
Newtype-001
Member
Haha i was only speculating since Sega bought Atlus id assume theyd like to push a few more titles seeing how well VC did.
Also i dont even know if there are any Atlus games on PC.
Modest Mauser
Member
I'm just realizing they haven't shown off the other characters' personas. We see the MC attack with his and then the rest of the characters just use standard attacks. I guess they're saving those for a later?
RyougaSaotome
Member
Whelp, with P4D out today, I expect the floodgates on P5 to open.
Shit gonna get real cray real soon.
Shit gonna get real cray real soon.
Nightengale
Member
That's not my intent. My intent is to share the perspective of why Atlus is doing things the way they are, so that others will calm down and not take the lack of any P5 media as some sort of sign that the game is in some sort of troubled state.
This trailer itself is evident of that fact of how Atlus is managing their marketing. Not that they couldn't show anything at E3, THEY DON'T WANT TO.
eyeball_kid
Member
I was hoping we'd see improvements in the engine, but it still isn't on par with Catherine's Gambryo engine. But aside from that, the hype is still strong. I'm liking the more trap-based dungeons; P3's dungeons felt very sterile.
spatenfloot
Member
I think word of mouth and streaming will really help sell this game. Plus, it is rather different from most of the other games available. Probably not as big as Bloodborne, but really good.
You just stole a laugh from me, give it back!
Nightengale
Member
I think you're overestimating. 1 million in US is a VERY VERY VERY high benchmark.
exmachina64
Banned
Who are we defining as the big ones? Square Enix (and Sony), obviously. Who else?
1 million WW? There is 0 question that it will reach that, probably within the period of 3 months (if it were a simultaneous release).
Hell, 2 million is even a realistic projection, in my opinion... well, maybe not if the North American marketing gets weird somehow, and they think that people don't care about Persona 5 over here even though there are many, many examples of the enthusiast fanbase proving otherwise through polls and impressions.
Their E3 badge called Persona 5 "one of the most anticipated RPGs in the world." I hope they all know that's not just embellished marketing speak.
Admiral Woofington
Member
I expect 1 million US by early 2016. I can't gauge how it will sell in Japan.
Isn't P4G even closer to 1M? At any rate, you're right, it will be doing 1M+ worldwide very easily.
Okay great point. I guess some Devs just do their own thing. I still don't think this is the norm. But yeah, some Devs do in fact do this. And they have their own reasons for doing this.
But with Fallout we knew nothing. We've known about Persona 5 for a year and a half and have been teased with trailers and even a 2015 release date on a site. Not sure it's 1:1 the same. Fallout they held all info till they were ready to release everything including a solid release date, and pre-orders.
Persona 5 has had none of this and we are 5-6 months out supposedly. We've already been teased for a year and a half. *shrugs*
I would prefer the Fallout method, if they released all info at once including pre-orders and a release date. Absolutely. Would have loved that.
Futurematic
Member
Yeah, Persona 4 cleared around 123,000 in the USA by January NPD 2009 though that isn't a totally reliable number, Atlus said 110,000 last update from them I could find. Persona 4 Golden did 65-70k for July 2013 (creamsugar leaked that one in the relevant thread). Let's say they managed to move a few more copies and add Canada, and perhaps 250,000 sales for North America by now. Maybe 300,000 but that's probably optimistic, unless someone has final numbers.
I'm willing to wager half a million copies for Persona 5 in the USA, based on the expanding popularity and spin-offs and what not, but I have to agree that 1 million is a heck of a reach unless Sony or Atlus spend some serious money on marketing.
Globally the Persona series including all games and spin-offs both physical and digital has cleared over 6 million units.
Makoto Yuki
Banned
I can see it doing a million world wide, 2 million also sounds plausible as well. I'm probably gonna buy two copies.
Ha, and if there was any company that qualified for "doing their own thing," Atlus would be it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA9NAMXA4zY
Lol yes! So true. I can accept that I'm just biased and love this series immensely, that I'm being irrational here. But I will say that at least Fallout had a specific release date and pre orders up. I guess we just have to hope they do that soon too. Wonder how far they can push it into the next 5-6 months of it's really coming out this year. Like how close to release date before pre-orders and actual release date is announced.
Nightengale
Member
Fallout 4 wasn't used as a tool to market 4 Fallout spinoffs.
Atlus knows how the thirst for P5. They are milking that thirst to push all their other spinoffs, concert,etc.
manipulate
Member
Dungeons look great. Is this going to look substantially better on PS4 vs PS3?
unlikely
//ARCANUM
Member
My guess is the PS3 version won't be as sharp/clear and it will run at 720p30fps and the PS4 version will be 1080p60fps.
Yeah I'll just assume I have no idea what I'm talking about and shut up lol. I'm sorry. You guys know more than me. The thirst is definitely real. That I know lol
I don't think they've been using Persona 5 for that purpose for anything other than PSL2015 and P4D, though. Since November 2013, Persona 5 has been radio silent outside of a few blips on the radar, and it's only since February 2015 that things have been getting a bit more active.
Nightengale
Member
I'm referring to the announcement back in 2013 where they announced Ultimax,Q,P4DAN before announcing 5.
There was expectations for P5 at that event.
Ah, I guess expectations for Persona 5 brought more eyes on the spin-off games, themselves (although Persona 5 was apparently not announced at several of the large city monitor locations live) at that event, sure. Since that day, though, it's not like Persona 5 has been a factor regarding the marketing for other Persona products until this year.
Art Director already said they had more allies to reveal.
I mean, really people? You see 4 people and assume that's it for the whole game?
Assumptions.
I personally wouldn't even care if it was a smaller, more reserved group of people like it was in Persona 2. I think they all live together in the same hideout, so it's probably not going to be Persona 3 sized.
you've been able to romance outside the group in P3 and P4 so
Nvm
spatenfloot
Member
If there was more to the game, it would be in the trailer. From what I can tell, the entire game is about two minutes long!
There is no way this thing is doing 1MIL in the US in the next four months or so (assuming it's not coming out in until Fall).
Makoto Yuki
Banned
I'll be happy either way, as long as the characters are interesting. I wonder if the dude who is "painting the town red" going to be a party member or an antagonist. He seems like a cool guy.
ChasingComets
Member
No wonder movie and gaming marketers see the need to spoil the entire thing in a trailer.
SatelliteOfLove
Member
I still say they're master trolling and no one can say it isn't working.
Now this? This is Sega/Atlus dropping the goddamn ball. This right here.
Now this? This is Sega/Atlus dropping the goddamn ball. This right here.