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[cormack12]

Source: https://personacentral.com/atlus-2025-aspirations-tease/

Shinjiro Takada is the product manager of Atlus’ 1st Creative Department, which handles the “Shin Megami Tensei” series. He’s worked on the Devil Survivor series, Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE, and Shin Megami Tensei V, and Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance.

<Question 4> What are your aspirations for 2025 and what is your message to 4Gamer readers?
There’s a title we’re hoping to announce as soon as possible. Right now, the team is hard at work on its development so that fans can enjoy it as much as possible.

Atsushi Nomura is a producer for Atlus’ 2nd Creative Department, which handles the Persona series. He has worked on the remastered version of Persona 4 Golden as well as Persona 5 Tactica.

<Question 4> What are your aspirations for 2025 and what is your message to 4Gamer readers?
2024 was a year of “good harvest” for games, with several amazing ones released. Because of this, my own backlog has grown even larger, and I’m looking forward to diving into many of them over the holiday season. Atlus was also able to release several titles like Persona 3 Reload, Unicorn Overlord, Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance, and Metaphor: ReFantazio. We’ll be able to tell you more about the future at a more appropriate time, but please stay tuned as our staff is working hard every day to make this happen.

Naoya Maeda is a director for Atlus’ 2nd Creative Department, which handles the “Persona” series. He has worked on Persona 5, the Persona Q series, and Persona 5 Tactica.

<Question 4> What are your aspirations for 2025 and what is your message to 4Gamer readers?
It’s hard to believe it’s already been a year since Persona 5 Tactica was released. It’s regretful that I’m not able to give you more details about the title I’m currently working on, but I am confident that it will offer your readers an exciting new experience. I would be grateful if you would look forward to it. Thank you for your continued support of Atlus’ Persona Team!

Kazuhisa Wada is the Creative Producer and Chief Director of the Persona Team. He has worked on the Persona 4 Arena series, the Persona Dancing series, Persona 5 Royal, and is working on Persona 5: The Phantom X.

<Question 4> What are your aspirations for 2025 and what is your message to 4Gamer readers?
2025 is a year where we’ll carefully steer the helm of several large-scale projects that are on track and staying the course, so that they don’t shift direction. It’s also the time for us to lay the groundwork for a variety of products, so we’ll be proceeding carefully, and I look forward to eventually sharing them with everyone. The collective mass of these projects is enormous, so the cost of correcting any missteps would be significant. Considering that, we’ll proceed with a commitment to focus and attention to detail.

 

[Seomel]

Lets fucking go, hopefully a sequel. And if rumours can be believed, we shouldnt be far off from p6 too

 

[adamsapple]

Persona 6 announcement is over-due.

LFG !

 

[MagusMajul]

Atlus>Square Soft

 

[Zacfoldor]

 

[R6Rider]

Playing through SMTV Vengeance right now. My first in the series and enjoying it much more than Persona 4 or 5.

Probably too soon for SMT VI though.

 

[Danjin44]

When you say Persona team you mean the new Persona team. because Hashino and his team who made P3-5 are now called Studio Zero.

I love Atlus, I'm there in whatever they make.

 

[cormack12]

When you say Persona team you mean the new Persona team. because Hashino and his team who made P3-5 are now called Studio Zero.

I love Atlus, I'm there in whatever they

 

[Rambone]

SMT V: Vengeance is my GOTY for sure. Always excited for more Persona or SMT related news.

 

[Arsic]

Playing through SMTV Vengeance right now. My first in the series and enjoying it much more than Persona 4 or 5.

Probably too soon for SMT VI though.

Could be a first person dungeon crawler focused game like a strange journey to be on switch exclusive initially?

 

[Danjin44]

Could be a first person dungeon crawler focused game like a strange journey to be on switch exclusive initially?

To me Strange Journey mostly worked on DS/3DS because of the second screen, I dont know how well that work on consoles without you consistently bring up the map menu.

 

[Arsic]

To me Strange Journey mostly worked on DS/3DS because of the second screen, I dont know how well that work on consoles without you consistently bring up the map menu.

Could work fine on a big tv too if they just split it horizontally I suppose.

Didn’t the new castlevania collection do something with the map on screen while playing?

 

[Kurotri]

It's time for Persona 6. They said in their own words that they want to specifically surpass Persona 5, which is my favourite game. I'm not sure if they can pull it off, but it doesn't have to. I'll be there day 1.

 

[HerjansEagleFeeder]

Oh god, still haven't recovered from 115 hours P5R

 

[R3TRO]

Can’t wait.

 

[SF Kosmo]

Love me some Atlus RPGs, Persona 5, Metaphor, and SMT5 are all peak in their way, so I feel like Atlus is at the height of their powers.

When you say Persona team you mean the new Persona team. because Hashino and his team who made P3-5 are now called Studio Zero.

Studio Zero has a handful of important P-Studio vets but is mostly a new team. P-Studio is still mostly staffed by series veterans.

 

[HRK69]

I will be there

 

[MMaRsu]

Smt iv remaster please

 

[IAmRei]

To me Strange Journey mostly worked on DS/3DS because of the second screen, I dont know how well that work on consoles without you consistently bring up the map menu.

That's already solved with etrian odyssey 1-3HD, they could, as long as they want. And SJ by far is one of two of my favorite SMT beside Nocturne. I can only wish for SJ, but well, the problem is, SJ remaster is on 3DS, and quite still not too long ago

 

[Labadal]

Atlus>Square Soft

Never in a million years, but I do agree with

Atlus>Square Enix

 

[StereoVsn]

It’s going to be interesting to see what they are bringing. I would absolutely go for Strange Journey or SMT IV Remake and it is way past the time for P6.

Edit: Wasn’t there a rumor of Raidou Remake?

 

[Pasta la Vista]

Seeing the direction they went with Metaphor and SMT V, I fear they have lost the cool direction that they once had with the SMT and Persona series of games.
Probably has something to do with Kaneko finally leaving Atlus, even though he wasn't in any creative role for awhile now, he was the one that defined those series.

Whatever they announce I'll have to go into with a lot of skepticism from here on out.

 

[Mister Wolf]

Remasters of Digital Devil Saga.

 

[Pasta la Vista]

Remasters of Digital Devil Saga.

They keep the same art and everything, I'll be on board. Added Japanese VO is all I really need. I'll take remasters of anything Kaneko era as long as they don't fuck with it like they did Strange Journey Redux.

 

[Celcius]

Here's hoping we either get Persona 6, Vanillaware games released on PC, or Muramasa released on modern systems

 

[RoboFu]

In the switch 2 announcement ?

 

[Pasta la Vista]

Atlus>Square Soft

been that way since ps2 tbh