Persona 5 delayed to Summer 2016 for PS3/PS4

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Don't be children.

There's a difference between missing an announced deadline and "lying". They have nothing to gain by telling you a false date, quit your immature "my faith is broken" drama.
 
Fucking told you two days ago, had extremely solid argument (no certification, no sign of VA recording and dvd pressing), and I still had fanboys telling me to gtfo.
 
Was kind of expecting it given they hadn't locked down a solid date. Bit disappointing it's in summer and not early 2016 though.
 
Cornbread78 said:
Dammit Atlus, now this launch is going to be about the same time as Star Ocean 5... uughh, WTF...

Angry..

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I don't know. SO5 releases half a year earlier in Japan, so it might come out a bit earlier than P5 in the West. Though I expect a faster localization for P5 (at least for NA). FF XV should be the bigger worry for Atlus.
 
I think Atlus USA's constant reassuring of 2015 eventually damaged Atlus JP's presentation today. Had no one said a word, we would be hanging in doubt and just get confirmation now, not get confirmed time and time again that the game is 2015 to then get this.

And even SEGA listed it as 2015 yesterday......just horrible.
 
Qvoth said:
is anyone truly shocked? like come on now
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I'm only a little surprised at the delay, it's the length of the delay that gets me. Pushed to January or February I could handle but Summer 2016 could be a year out. That's insane considering everywhere said 2015 right up until that trailer.
 
Discoid said:
I didn't see the trailer when I posted that.

Glad to see more dungeon stuff at least, but still, SoL is kind of Persona's thing.
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It's one half of Persona's thing and given the second half of that trailer I'm not sure that the Slice of Life portion is going to be as fun-time centric as it was in Persona 4.
 
ocean said:
Don't be children.

There's a difference between missing an announced deadline and "lying". They have nothing to gain by telling you a false date, quit your immature "my faith is broken" drama.
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Uhhh, but less than a month ago they wanted to dispel rumors of a 2016 delay and assured us it would be out this year.

I mean I think we all expected this, really. But they were literally telling us last month that it was definitely coming out in 2015. Don't worry.
 
Of course I'm speaking for myself, but I think it works out for the better. Maybe they ran into quite a few troubles along the way and yes they should communicate better at least towards their Atlus USA branch.

Saying it's still coming to 2015 is bad PR. Anyway it looks amazing as usual.
 
But.. but.. This is just how Atlus promotes the game, they don't say anything about it until the last moment!

That argument for why we hadn't heard anything about the game until now was so dumb, it was obvious it was going to be delayed.
 
I have to question why they're even bothering with a PS3 release in summer of 2016. I remember a thread posted not too long ago that showed only 3% (or something like that) of MGSV's sales were on last-gen and that's a much bigger release. It's only going to get worse.
 
This OK: Just release after 31 of march (handing in phd) and have at-least one month difference between this title and FFXV is all I am asking for.
 
Benclank01 said:
I think some of you guys are idiots right now.

Persona 3 released in July 13, 2006 in Japan. Persona 4 released in July 10, 2008 in Japan. And now Persona 5 is about to release in July 2015 in Japan. Why? Because, they're all SUMMER releases.

No wonder why Persona 5 was about to release in Winter 2014 on the PS3, no wonder why Persona 5 was to release this year in PS3 and PS4. They're just playing with us like a damn fiddle because of the anticipation!
I mean like, Persona 4 was announced back in March 2008 and then Persona 4 was released back in July that year in Japan. But when Persona 5 comes along and was announced back in November 2013 and it's all because of the anticipation... Get it?
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Don't call anyone an idiot.
 
Xyber said:
But.. but.. This is just how Atlus promotes the game, they don't say anything about it until the last moment!

That argument for why we hadn't heard anything about the game until now was so dumb, it was obvious it was going to be delayed.
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And yet the Persona fanboys stayed to the end. If this means that they get a bit of reality snapped into their heads, good.
 
Well, no shit. Anybody could have seen this coming from a mile away, except the crazy atlus fans. You don't pump all that advertising into a dancing spin off then do nothing for the mainline tentpole release.
 
Benclank01 said:
I think some of you guys are idiots right now.

Persona 3 released in July 13, 2006 in Japan. Persona 4 released in July 10, 2008 in Japan. And now Persona 5 is about to release in July 2015 in Japan. Why? Because, they're all SUMMER releases.
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So I guess July release for P5 makes sense.
 
The thing that annoys me is that Atlua had multiple chances to be real about it. They insisted several times that it was 2015. I would have been fine with 2016 if they just told us when they had the chance more than once. Now I'm just a little annoyed.
 
Zombie James said:
I have to question why they're even bothering with a PS3 release in summer of 2016. I remember a thread posted not too long ago that showed only 3% (or something like that) of MGSV's sales were on last-gen and that's a much bigger release. It's only going to get worse.
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Because PS4 adoption rate in Japan is ass right now and until Japan picks up the slack on buying PS4s and moves on to current gen like most if the world has already than Japanese Developers will continue to support the PS3 and make Cross Gen titles.
 
Expected yet still disappointing. Trailer was fantastic though, just gonna make the wait harder. Good thing there's plenty of promising games coming in the first half of 2016!
 
Silver Arrows said:
And yet the Persona fanboys stayed to the end. If this means that they get a bit of reality snapped into their heads, good.
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Don't blame the fans, Persona has released before on a very tight schedule so it was completely realistic.

It's Atlus who fucked up here.
 
So is Atlus USA so amazing that they will release the game even before it's done? 2015 is what Atlus USA kept saying until like last week or whatever and there was this huge thread not long ago debating whether it was true or not, right?
 
Confused Cheeseburger said:
The thing that annoys me is that Atlua had multiple chances to be real about it. They insisted several times that it was 2015. I would have been fine with 2016 if they just told us when they had the chance more than once. Now I'm just a little annoyed.
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It would be much better if they just didn't say anything.
Really odd they kept repeating 2015.
 
Honestly very happy to hear this. Haven't even finished Witcher 3 yet, MGSV is currently chokeholding my free time and I want to jump back into FFXIV until Fallout 4 takes over. I was worrying where I'd fit Persona 5 amongst all that goodness.
 
Jucksalbe said:
I don't know. SO5 releases half a year earlier in Japan, so it might come out a bit earlier than P5 in the West. Though I expect a faster localization for P5 (at least for NA). FF XV should be the bigger worry for Atlus.
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True, but I was expecting

Dec. '15- P5
May/June '16 - SO5
Sept. Oct. '16- FFXV

Now those gaps are closed even more, then you start adding in:

Dragon Quest Builders
Dragon Quest Heroes 1 & 2
Dragon Quest 11
Nier 2
Kingdom Hearts HD II.8 Final Chapter Prologue
World of Final Fantasy
Kingdom Hearts 3
Project Setsuna
Star Ocean: Second Evolution
SaGa Scarlet Grace


The release schedule for next year just becomes completely insane.
 
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