Persona 5 delayed to Summer 2016 for PS3/PS4

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I am curious to know what the hell has happened with the development for this game.

I can't believe Atlus is doing this, ATLUS!!
 
Persona has released before on a very tight schedule so it was completely realistic.

Different platform, different circumstances. Past performance isn't always an indicator of future performance, especially when adding more than one supported platform. Think about it, they pretty much skipped the PS3 gen entirely (yes they did Catherine, but the scale and scope of that game hardly compares to a full RPG), and this time they're doing a PS3 AND a PS4 release. With a publisher/owner switch in the process with the whole Index mess. They never even gave a more refined date aside from "2015," which is universally never a good sign in any industry.

Yes, Atlus should have handled the messaging a lot better. But to put blind faith in a release dare while ignoring all the above factors to coincide with the limited info released about anything of the game and the quietness on the retail front, any reasonable person should have some level of skepticism even if they are the biggest Atlus fan. Many of us are despite thinking there was a high probability of a delay.

Those of us who were following P3 on this forum leading up to its release in Japan saw more info than what we see now for P5 2-3 months prior to release.
 
Good job on tripling down on lies, Atlus PR.

Contrarily to what I wrote so far, it turns out your regular no-name tinfoil poster is closer to the truth than whatever you guys spew.
 
Well ... I expected it. With Fallout 4 and Xenoblade X coming this Fall/Winter it's already too much so I'm not that sad.
 
The fact that they kept using blanket, non-descriptive "2015"s should've been a tip off

They should have just said TBA, but Atlus USA and the constant debates made it a lot worse.

I'm honestly 100% fine with it being 2016, but it was a bit annoying to see some people refuting the idea up until this very point.
 
I am curious to know what the hell has happened with the development for this game.

I can't believe Atlus is doing this, ATLUS!!
I think there's a major communication problem between Atlus USA and Atlus JPN.
Either that, or Atlus USA knew they were lying to us.
 
Yep. Oh well.

I want the best Persona 5 we can get so no problems with this. All the teasing and assurances from Atlus is kind of obnoxious in retrospect when we all know how this shit works and there was a high probability of a delay. Don't prey on people's expectations if you don't really know.
 
Well, at least I have time now to play other games.

And I'm not gonna watch the new trailer.

#Team2015EU am cry
 
so late 2016? No way Atlus does a worldwide release.

Crazy how we went from thinking it'll come out in 3 months to waiting another year.
 
A delay certainly isn't unexpected, but almost a year? Wow. For me, this is probably the worst game delay since Twilight Princess a decade ago. At least here they aren't just shoving in waggle and sitting on it until a console launch.

But, hey, if they need the time, they need the time. The trailer looks great.

Good job on tripling down on lies, Atlus PR.

Contrarily to what I wrote so far, it turns out your regular no-name tinfoil poster is closer to the truth than whatever you guys spew.

Guys, do you really expect PR to break from the company line? Would you seriously risk losing your job over a post on GAF? And this is assuming that Atlus USA was told anything specific about the release window ahead of time...
 
SCREAMING!!! We all knew but they was playing us as if we didn't know... Talking about, "It's a lie... It is coming out in 2015. Don't listen to those bad sources"


Atlus... Girl
 
Has anyone posted a list yet, insisting how 2016 is going to be stacked?

Crackdown 3
Dark Souls 3
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Divinity Original Sin 2
DOOM
Dragon Quest XI
FFXV
Gears 4
Horizon
TLG
LoZ
Mass Effect Andromeda
Mirror's Edge Catalyst
Quantam Break
Yakuza 6
Ratchet & Clank
Scalebound
Street Fighter V
Star Ocean 5
The Division
Uncharted 4
XCOM 2

And now, Persona 5.

Quite a good list, best ever? Still think '98 has it beat.
 
Oh well, I can get the Amazon E3 deal on it then, probably. I'll take it! It's unfortunate for everyone super excited for it this year, especially with all the "2015" comments that have been made time and again. I still need to finish Golden, only nine hours in.
 
Yeah, I expected this, but I'm not sad tbh, I didn't have any time for it this year anyway (completely selfish reasons of course, but still).
 
Sadness =( Oh well, summer 2016 is probably a better launch window for Atlus anyway. This Fall/Winter is pretty packed. Still, I am going to very much miss having that game in December. Seems like it would have been a perfect winter escape during the holidays.
 
So this 40 hour livestream is on friday right? Why would they even do something like this, since we now already know it got delayed? They can't really expect people to be super excited about their event now.
I wish they had announced the delay like a month ago or something.
 
I'm not even surprised.

I'm fine with this date .. as for ATLUS USA , i can't wait for the " We can confirm Persona 5 for 2016"
only for it to release in 2017
 
Had a feeling it would be delayed. Kinda bummed but hey it should only make the game better when it is released.
 
Now I kinda want them to delay it even further to fall 2016. It would be such a cool Christmas game to play over the holidays.
 
It's just the Japanese release that delayed. It could still make 2015 in the west.

shaking

This would be hilarious.
I don't imagine it would go over well at TGS though, maybe they are waiting to get out of the crowds before they announce it.

Well, at least I have time now to play other games.

And I'm not gonna watch the new trailer.

#Team2015EU am cry

I doubt we will be playing it next year either.

#Team2016EU am cry
 
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