Live countdown to major Persona team announcement from Atlus [Summary in OP]
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TurnipFritters
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No and that's why it's taken them nearly 3 years to show off a new Persona game
Boss Riovane
Member
I have hope for P5. I have hope for P5. I have hope for P5.
Chant it with me.
Chant it with me.
SniperHunter
Banned
How do you know?
Witchfinder General
punched Wheelchair Mike
So they're broadcasting this live across several public mega-screens across Japan?
How can this be anything other than Persona 5? Surely the cost and the pomp and ceremony precludes a minor or trivial announcement?
It has to be Persona 5 at the very least.
How can this be anything other than Persona 5? Surely the cost and the pomp and ceremony precludes a minor or trivial announcement?
It has to be Persona 5 at the very least.
TurnipFritters
Member
Be Sure To Drink Your Ovaltine.
SniperHunter
Banned
Interesting. Guess this is a console game for ps360?
Most likely. (Maybe Sega will even make them port it to PC)
A reasonable assumption, but we don't know for sure.
Magicpaint
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Wonder if they plan to get as much mileage out of this engine as they did with Nocturne's assets. In that regard, cross-gen may make sense as Persona 5 is only being announced -- not even released -- at the tail end of this generation and having also everything updated and ready for PS4 (?) will set the trend and hopefully we can get Persona 6 earlier than it's taking for us to get Persona 5.
Though I'm obviously getting ahead of myself here
I would be happy if they ported it to the PC, but I know that's likely not gonna happen. Also, is Atlus well known for their PC games? The people who made Dark Souls never made a PC port and at its initial release, it was pretty bad.
RPGCrazied
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If they announce 5 but no HD collection of 3 and 4 I'm off to Amazon to buy them.
Why not just get Golden instead? That sort of counts as an improvement to the originals.
SolidSnakex
Member
Atlus constantly runs sales for the Persona games on PSN.
RPGCrazied
Member
No Vita, don't want one either. *duck*
I'm surprised at how often people overlook it, but there was just as long a gap between P2 and 3 as there ultimately will be between P4 and 5.
Sure, they changed creative leads, but it's clear that when these guys need to upgrade tech, they take a while.
And that's not even accounting for Catherine. It's taken forever, but I think it's understandable.
RPGCrazied
Member
Yeah, but I'd like to have the case and manual. The PS2 versions are cheap right now. Can get both for under $30 and new.
TetraGenesis
Member
Guess I'm setting my alarm for 5:50am and watching it then. I did the same thing for GTAV on PSN when I wanted to set my background download to install.
Make sure you get Persona 3 FES and not the original.
RPGCrazied
Member
Yeah, its FES. Even 4 looks like it still comes with the music CD.
Add vita to that and you've covered the most reasonable bases.
I don't believe they have the resources to build a cross gen game.
Yeah I didn't want to get a Vita either, and I didn't have a PS3. So I found some old ass ps2 and bought FES. And I just got the original Persona 4. The games look horrible on my tv but I love em all.
Is that the one to get? I've had what seems to be an equal number of people split between FES and P3P, then the P3P crowd is split between the male and female MCs.
get FES
TurnipFritters
Member
The difference is that Persona is profitable now, so the gap seems weird. Especially given that they rereleased the entire series during that gap.
Agreed. It's taken too long regardless of the reasoning.
SolidSnakex
Member
It probably would've come a lot sooner had they not realized how much money they could make through enhanced ports, merchandising and animes.
Magicpaint
Member
Good point. Maybe they'll give PS4 the 'FES/Golden' treatment a year later then? But that's leaving the Vita behind (which is an obvious candidate for that kind of treatment). Unless it's PS3/Vita for the original release.
Indeed, still, if that's their way of compensating for the 'delay' then it has actually worked as anticipation for P5 has been building up for a good while.
Lets hypothetically say that Atlus had the resources for a PS4 version.
Would they even need a handheld version of Persona anymore since the Vita could just stream off the PS4?
Fabrikator
Neo Member
As much as Id love to see a PS4 title, Id be happy with P5 on Vita, P4 golden was awesome, all I'd really like to see is better dungeons (really the only weak part of P4 IMO) but even that couldn't bring down the game.
TurnipFritters
Member
The only dungeons you have to navigate in P5 are the dreaded dungeons of social interactions.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
They likely had to out of necessity, given Index's financial issues.
In that regard, how has the merger with Sega effect Atlus?
SolidSnakex
Member
They were still able to make multiple enhanced versions of Persona, SMT4, a new engine and Catherine during the period between the original P4 and now.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
And I'd imagine most of those weren't as costly production wise and were needed to bring in enough revenue to keep things running and continue funding longer term development.
Yes. Streaming don't work too hot on the subway.
Who knows. However, my stream is back up and should stay up permanently now.
Do you have a link to your stream? I can't find it for some reason.
I really sure Persona was always profitable.
Still got my original PS2 just in case. XD
SolidSnakex
Member
That's certainly possible. I just think that they probably wanted additional time to develop P5 given Hashino's comments about wanting to do something new. So, P3 and especially P4's success would've been something to give them that additional breathing room. It would also seem odd for them to spend money on a new engine if they were in such bad financial shape. They could've just stuck with Gamebryo if that were the case.