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Persona 5 Won't Be Out In North America Until February 2017
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reelbigtink
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Hey that'll give me at least a month to play until NX comes out
brickarts295
Member
right there with you, then again I'm going to try and put some effort to avoid being alone that day XD
E_Darkness
Member
Given that the game will be a known quantity by then and anything someone wants to know about it will be readily available, I have a feeling it'll backslide some.
Gunslinger
Member
I don't mind playing the Japanese version if you can change language from Japanese to English. As for voice acting I don't mind if they are Japanese as long as there are subtitles.
Elaugaufein
Member
That's still an excellent turn around time (5 months instead of 6 which was pretty standard and it's getting common to see 9 again (mostly from big publishers for some reason).
CertifiedFP
Member
This is the cost of getting Yakuza and 7th Dragon localized, people.
Enjoy.
(Anyone expecting a simultaneous worldwide/within 2 months release had no idea what they were talking about. Atlus, effectively being Sega's entire localization department now, is probably running a total workload twice as large as they've ever handled before. If not bigger.)
Enjoy.
(Anyone expecting a simultaneous worldwide/within 2 months release had no idea what they were talking about. Atlus, effectively being Sega's entire localization department now, is probably running a total workload twice as large as they've ever handled before. If not bigger.)
Grim Patron
Member
The Japanese version will not let you change language to English.
Hibiki Kurosawa
Member
Got my pre-order in for the CE on ebgames.ca
It's happening!
It's happening!
Oh phew that's a relief, for a second there I thought there were Bandai Namco and would just skip the English dub altogether.John posted on Twitter about the possibility of dual audio
Joking aside, it's good to see they're at least trying to get dual audio this time.
the_sun_king
Member
I definitely don't doubt they aren't incapable, but I also have this underlying suspicion that with P5's somewhat abnormal development that Atlus USA miiiiiiight have only just gotten the necessary materials from the Japan branch to begin localization. I have nothing to back this up, of course, but it feels like there's a definite discrepancy between the two branches. I was hoping that with the delay announced at TGS last year that the Japan branch might have been able to hand off some stuff to their USA counterparts to begin some English localization then, but I highly doubt that now with the NA release date being 8 months away.
Marmaladefire
Member
A lot of fans wouldn't mind it. Not me, but it seems to be overall sentiment among core persona fans
who don't get that Atlus is trying to sell this to a wider audience than them
On another note, it's weird to me that they went with "steal your heart" after "Love is over". The marketing has shades of Catherine everywhere, which may be what they want to invoke (style, scandal, player choice/connection,"strange" blonde haired blue eyed girl with pigtails etc)
I can't wait to see if the game actually matches and to see if the group dynamic and MC "personality" is more like P3 or P4
99% of Japanese games won't have English subtitles. There's very few exceptions. I wouldn't count on it.
I heavily doubt that; I still think they actively started localizing Persona 5 sometime in Q1 of 2016. I have nothing to back that up, either, but we'll find out soon enough...
I still think the most important point regarding this are the other projects Atlus USA needed to work on localizing with their relatively small team. Recently:
1. Odin Sphere Leifthrasir
2. Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse
3. Tokyo Mirage Sessons #FE
4. Yakuza 0
5. Hatsune Miku: Project Diva X
6. King of Fighters XIV
Possibly more. With all those projects on their plate, it would naturally get in the way of localizing Persona 5. I guess they found it wouldn't make business sense to prioritise the localization of that one game over a number of others (or any other business reason that lead to the same result), but what makes it weird is how long ago Persona 5 was announced for localization and how it'll end up being released in NA after a bunch of projects that were announced afterwards.
Putting aside my own feelings of wanting to play it asap, it doesn't feel right. It feels like a hugely missed opportunity, because some of the hype will absolutely be dissipated for the NA target audience of this game when it has been released somewhere else 5 months prior. The awareness of Persona (and of media as a whole since 2008) has gotten significantly bigger since Persona 4; I can't believe that this delayed launch won't have an effect on initial sales. Perhaps it'll be pretty minimal, though.
ChasingComets
Member
On that same basis, sufficiently high praise (I'm hoping) for the game could also push expectations fuether than ever.
Marmaladefire
Member
Doomsday vision imo is that they start releasing a bunch of supplementary stuff before/around the time of the NA launch. "Eh..I'll read this fan translated manga adaption instead of play an 80 hour game. eh..Isn't that OVA coming out in a couple of months anyway?"
the_sun_king
Member
I hadn't fully considered all of those titles. This is definitely a highly possible reason for the 8 month wait. Or maybe it's a result of a combination of different factors, including this.
...I think I've gone past depression to detached curiosity now lol. It's weird, I was relatively fine with the Summer 2016 delay at TGS last year, but this one? It's put a definite damper on my excitement levels for the game atm.
I'm guessing EU release will be tentative summer 2017? Lol no thanks importing this one.
Ha! I wish.
Ha! I wish.
Somebody going to make a thread or investigate what has been going on with Atlus or what? Because clarification would be nice about now instead of this constant back and forth.
Man, they never mail me in time.
Established IP vs New One? Strong Woman versus Colorful Waifus and Husbandos?
Or this morning.
😩
How I feel. Fucking Atlus dude. I was one of the few that was certain we would get last year. I was 100% sure we were gonna get it this year. Fucking Christ man.
SprachBrooks
Member
It's 2016 yet international releases are still a rarity here. It's actually kind of a joke.
ArkhamFantasy
Member
I think your best bet is to just import the NA version, thankfully the PS4 is region free.
qualitydisc
Member
So I guess it says something about the series's popularity as a spinoff that it no longer has Shin Megami Tensei branding on the box art. Thoughts on that?
Persona dropped the SMT label with Persona 4 Golden, if I remember correctly.
artsi
Member
Expected, as it never did that in Japan. P4G already dropped it here as Setsu said.
CrimsonSquall
Member
What's the reasoning tho?
KoroEunectes
Member
I ended up pre-ordering it from Video Games Plus.
I don't expect the game to come out in Europe before summer 2017.
John Hardin said this about an EU release
https://twitter.com/JohnLHardin/status/740211983283195909
Makoto Yuki
Banned
Ironically, both the original Persona: Revelations and Persona 2: Eternal Punishment were released without the SMT either. It came back with Persona 3 and 4. Came back for the P1 and P2 Duology's PSP versions.
Honestly P1 and P2 Duology are more fitting of the SMT than either P3 and P4.
I would assume both brand identity as well as Persona being the bigger name in the west? Dunno.
Persona never used the "SMT" label in Japan. It was added for NA markets to build off Nocturne's popularity, but as Persona eclipsed SMT's popularity, it makes no sense to continue using it.
It's a complete non-answer. I don't blame Hardin though, he seems like a nice guy.
artsi
Member
In Japan it was always just Persona.
Atlus USA used it to carry P3 and P4 on SMT3's popularity in the west, but Persona is now the more popular brand and it has no reason to be there anyway, so it's gone.
KoroEunectes
Member
When it comes to the EU you should expect that from Sega Europe/ Atlus USA.
It basically boils down to "We'll look into it" without ever doing anything.
I don't blame John by the way.
He is probably doing what he can for us but it is still pretty frustrating.
Kandrick
GAF's Ed McMahon
They have been saying the same shit since ever. It means nothing.
While this has nothing to do with Atlus USA, this reminds me about KH Birth by Sleep's European release and the question whether there would be FIGS dubs for the game. Someone answered "We'll look into it" (don't quote me on this, but I believe it was Hashimoto) and of course the game came out without a full localization. However, it was rather obvious that they actually looked into it - at least, the German script was apparently even written with dubbing in mind as it was mostly in sync with the mouth movements of the English version.
The point of this is that you shouldn't jump to conclusions, but I guess it's harder to do that in this case.
Makoto Yuki
Banned
Should have been PS3's final farewell when it was still relevant Winter 2014 should have been the date honestly. That was about the time PS3 fell off, maybe even earlier. Hell P4 was released in 2008 when the PS3 was barely anywhere.
I wonder how much of the Sega Atlus merger and the PS4 port were part of this games delays.
This. Don't have to care about dual audio if they're localizing the PS3 version. FU Atlus.
KoroEunectes
Member
I was more talking about Sega Europe than Atlus USA in my post
Like I said I,m sure John is doing what he can for us but I,m really tired of the same song and dance.
Nothing from the recent developments from Sega Europe fills me with any confidence that we will see P5 around the same time as the US.
I think most EU Atlus fans are just tired of this uncertainty and want to have some clear answers.
Even though I pre-ordered the US copy, I will buy the EU version when it comes out just to show that there is some support for these titles in the EU.
I do wonder if other EU Atlus fans will do the same or if they will just import it and call it a day.
I guess Atlus can always blame low sales if that happens.......
It's really disappointing if they won't be able to get dual audio out. There has been enough of a clamor for it that they can't just now be realizing that there's a certain audience for it. Honestly this bugs me more than the 2017 release, even as someone who will be playing completely with the English dub were it even a choice to have the original VA in there.
I'm new be nice
Member
Should be the first feature listed on the back of the box.