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An offline Persona 5: The Phantom X event was held with Sega, Atlus and Perfect World games in Shanghai on July 12, 2024. Persona 5X producer Lao V, Japanese producer Yosuke Uda and Atlus character designer Shigenori Soejima were in attendance and discussed behind the scenes stories, future plans and other stories.
An excerpt of some of what was discussed has been published online, and includes discussion of various future plans for the game. The answers provided confirm an international release for the game, and that a version for consoles will be released in the future.
Sega had previously stated that an international version was under consideration, with Atlus’ 2024 Consumer Survey asking about interest in the game
Collaborations
- The Persona 5 pyramid and space station chapters will be made available after the summer events.
- There are long term plans for further Persona series collaborations. Currently the plan is for collaborations with Persona 5 Royal, Persona 3 Reload and Persona 4 Golden in that order.
- There will also be offline collaborations with other brands later in the year.
Q & A answers
- Atlus has decided the outline of the ending to P5X’s story, and it is currently being refined and developed.
- Work on the console versions of P5X will get underway after the international release.
Persona 5: The Phantom X is developed for mobile platforms and PC by Perfect World Games, licensed by Sega and Atlus. It released in open beta on April 12, 2024 in China, and on April 18 2024 in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and Korea.
Persona 5 The Phantom X Future Plans: Collaborations, Console Version and International Release - Persona Central
A Persona 5 The Phantom X Q&A confirms plans for console versions, an international release and collaborations with Persona 3 and Persona 4
personacentral.com