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Persona 5 Won't Be Out In North America Until February 2017

Sn4ke_911

If I ever post something in Japanese which I don't understand, please BAN me.
I cannot even begin to imagine what the EU date is.

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NO! NO! NO!

Expected, unfortunately. Really puts a damper on the rest of this year though. Not really sure what to look forward to anymore.

That's one thing Atlus and you have in common.

Crushing. (I screen-shoted your comment and sent it to my wife. That's how good I thought it was.)
 

Teletraan1

Banned
You know, maybe we wouldn't be seeing so many goddamn delays if devs didn't announce their games so early. I'll hand it to Bethesda; last year they announced Fallout 4, said a date, and stuck with it.

That game should have been delayed though. It was a technical shitshow at launch like all their games and the game itself is pretty terrible from a design standpoint.
 

oRuin

Member
Seems like a very old fashioned way of releasing a game in multiple languages. Kinda like the 1990s and early 2000s.

I need to start learning japanese. And fast.
 

kayos90

Tragic victim of fan death
What are you expecting from a company that can't even release games at the same time in NA and EU although both versions are completely identical?

Until Atlus let's us know how the actual localization process went for P5 or their games in general for that matter, I think they're a bunch of incompetents that don't know how to actually drive a good business. Shit like this would've been infinitely better handled when given to someone like Aksys.
 

AerialAir

Banned
At least bring SMTIVA to europe this year so i can get my megaten fix, no? Cmon atlus/sega/ghostlight/squeenix/nintendo.
 
Well I guess getting P5 on my birthday, is a good bday present to myself, so feb 14th sounds ok to me. Also plenty of time for ff15!
 
Anyone else having issues with pre-ordering the CE? It's still available but won't let me add to cart.
Important messages about items in your Cart:

We're sorry. The item Persona 5 - PlayStation 4 "Take Your Heart" Premium Edition Edition is no longer available from the seller you selected. To see if it's available from another seller, click here to return to the item's product detail page
This is the message I get when trying to add the premium edition to my cart.
 

WilyRook

Member
Yay, it'll be out on my fortieth birthday when I'll probably start thinking whether or not I'm too old to play games about youthful recklessness and teenage dalliances. And I'm only partly joking, I think. I should start a game of P2 tonight.

Anyway, I thought the NA version would be out in December, so this new date isn't too bad. Of course, it's not like it's free from even further delays. Yeah, I'm clearly already starting to get bitter.
 
Man and I thought Dark Souls fans were insufferable and DS3 was only delayed three weeks. Persona threads are going to be tough to deal with during the remainder of 2016

Though I genuinely do feel bad for my European friends on GAF .
 

nukedeggs

Member
Woke up this morning, saw the P5 email, couldn't open the link to preorder the special edition...

Get to work and it's currently unavailable, FML.

Is there best buy preorder btw?
 

Mupod

Member
I didn't play P4 before 2013 and didn't get spoiled at all. It's not that hard to avoid spoilers unless you are actively searching for them.

if by that you mean

- never look at any forums other than gaf (not that I haven't been spoiled on games here)
- be extremely careful with gaf's search function
- REALLY don't look at twitch chat or youtube comments or twitter or any other unmoderated space on the internet

then yeah sure I guess I could bury my head in the sand for half a year. This game is massively more anticipated than P4 as well.
 
I suppose it could be worse, they could have announced the release date at the end of a trailer, kinda like they did last year.

5 months lol, localization in this day and age still taking way too long.

5 months is actually pretty quick by the standards of niche Japanese games localized by small to mid-sized companies, if you compare it to recent releases like Atelier Sophie (6 months,) Senran Kagura Estival Versus (12 months,) Megadimension Neptunia V2 (10 months,) and Danganronpa Ultra Despair Girls (12 months.) Squeenix is probably bigger than all of the companies involved in those games combined (especially outside of Japan) so of course they have the resources for faster localizations.
 

hughesta

Banned
I think Amazon just put up the page early or something. There's no way it sold out already and I don't even think it's meant to be limited.
 
Its mindblowing that a company as bis as Sega/Atlus still can't get their shit together for Europe.

It was funny for some time but im getting really pissed at this point how they are treating their EU customer.
 
Can't say I'm surprised but oh well. Managed to pre-order a special edition, but it seems like they're sold out or a lot of people are preordering right now.
 
Saw the sheer amount of graphical things you'd have to change for localiaztion ,not to mention the massive script this, and realize that even if you aimed for worldwide launch it might just not be doable. I'm alright with a delay, hopefully the translation works out well,
 
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