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Atlus currently have no plans to port Persona 5 Royal to other platforms

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Atlus released a FAQ earlier today to address the most common questions levied at Persona 5 Royal alongside a few new screenshots. Among them, the question of "Will this release on platforms other than the PlayStation 4?" popped up to which they answered that they currently have no plans to do such a thing. This is significant as to my knowledge, this is the first time they've actually addressed head-on the fact that a mainline Persona game is exclusive to PlayStation instead of skirting and dodging the question. Looks like they're really doubling down on mainline Persona's exclusivity especially when you take into consideration that a question like this had to be addressed in the "Frequently Asked Questions" section indicating there's clearly a demand for it which makes me wonder if there's any sort of PlayStation exclusivity clause in place keeping it locked to that ecosystem.

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Obviously this doesn't rule out the base Persona 5 game coming to other platforms but it looks like P5R will be locked to the PlayStation 4 a la P4G and the Vita. I personally don't really see the point of bringing over the base Persona 5 game to other platforms now that Royal exists - especially at full price - considering how much of an upgrade Royal is over the base game.
 
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deadfolk

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I just don't understand. P4G is locked to a now dead handheld.

P5 runs well on a PS3. What's their problem?
 

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HK-47 said:
It's official. Atlus doesn't like money
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They definitely seem to stuck in a different era, in which having a game on both N64 and PS1 (for example) meant tremendous work and resources to adapt to largely different architectures and such. Nowadays it would be fairly simple to port a PS4 game to X1 and PC, even Switch would require (comparatively) little effort. This isn't the days in which games like Doom had to have different kind of compromises on all platforms: here you can have virtually identical games on all platforms with a bit of graphics tweaking. But it doesn't seem like the higher-ups are aware.
 
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I don't really get it, but it's not surprising at this point.

So bizzare all round basically.
 
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Hopefully they're at least working on a port for Tokyo Mirage Sessions, it'd be a real shame to see that forever stuck on the Wii U.
 
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It's crazy that they need to have that in a FAQ; which stands for "Frequently" Asked Questions. If it's frequent, that means there's demand.
 
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What I don't really understand is Persona 4 Golden not bein ported to PS4... it should be easy... and VITA is dead -.-
 
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GhostTrick said:
It's crazy that they need to have that in a FAQ; which stands for "Frequently" Asked Questions. If it's frequent, that means there's demand.
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If I were a betting man I'd wager it's the most frequently asked question of all too TBH :p

But I'm not so I'm not suggesting anything.
 
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Obviously. A HD shin megami tensei game with one screen and hdmi out was announced exclusively for the switch. They like to keep their games on separate platforms
 
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This is a standard template answer... It means nothing. After they release it, of course it will be re-released on some platform.

Edit: Poorly worded, I mean to say they can still release on some platform. "At present" is a loaded word
 
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It's obvious.
Persona = PlayStation
Shin Megami Tensei = Nintendo

Persona Q/Q2 are actually Etrian Odyssey games with Persona characters. EO are DS/3DS exclusive.
Spinoffs such as P4 Arena and P5 Scramble don't have exclusivity.
SMT: Nocturne and SMT: Nine are not on Nintendo because GameCube sold like shit.
 
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Where is that liar pretending to be a leaker?
 
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massoluk said:
This is a standard template answer... It means nothing.
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Well, mainline Persona has always been exclusive to PlayStation so the fact that they're doubling down on it now, I'd wager it means something. I think the chances of a Switch port that many were hoping for is now dead, the best shot of seeing anything major from Atlus that isn't EO or SMT on the Switch is probably a TMS port. It's clear Atlus are adament on keeping SMT on Nintendo and Persona on PlayStation. Whether Sony is involved in this remains to be seen.
 
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vestan said:
Obviously this doesn't rule out the base Persona 5 game coming to other platforms but it looks like P5R will be locked to the PlayStation 4 a la P4G and the Vita. I personally don't really see the point of bringing over the base Persona 5 game to other platforms now that Royal exists - especially at full price - considering how much of an upgrade Royal is over the base game.
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Yes, mainline Persona 5 will be forever exclusive to PS4 at this point, it has been clear since the April concert. At least, I hope that Atlus is understanding that there is a potential audience outside, since they included this FAQ, and maybe for future games (P6?) they will take it on consideration. Maybe
 
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They definitely seem to stuck in a different era, in which having a game on both N64 and PS1 (for example) meant tremendous work and resources to adapt to largely different architectures and such. Nowadays it would be fairly simple to port a PS4 game to X1 and PC, even Switch would require (comparatively) little effort. This isn't the days in which games like Doom had to have different kind of compromises on all platforms: here you can have virtually identical games on all platforms with a bit of graphics tweaking. But it doesn't seem like the higher-ups are aware.
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Pretty sure it's less them not knowing as opposed to just not caring.
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Sony moneyhat usually excludes pc so it isnt sony
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It didn't with SFV.
Xenosaga said:
Will this stop the port-begging?
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Nope.
 
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What a weird stance for Atlus, aren't they annoyed at all with all the Nintendo fan's portbegging? Just port it guys so threads won't get derailed

Hopefully they port SMT5 on all platforms. TMS too
 

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Egida said:
Can't wait for the inevitable "Persona 5 Musou for Switch is a test to gauge interest in the Persona series".
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Or "we're releasing a direct port of Persona 3 for 40 bucks on Xbox One, if it sells well we'll bring Persona 5, if not it's because people don't care".

Kinda like how Ys Origin is the only chapter of said saga to release on Xbox One. In that case, 20 Euros wasn't a horrible price, but then again it was a 12-13 years old game without any graphical improvement.
 
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Dany1899 said:
Yes, mainline Persona 5 will be forever exclusive to PS4 at this point, it has been clear since the April concert. At least, I hope that Atlus is understanding that there is a potential audience outside, since they included this FAQ, and maybe for future games (P6?) they will take it on consideration. Maybe
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I wouldn't get my hopes up.

noyram23 said:
What a weird stance for Atlus, aren't they annoyed at all with all the Nintendo fan's portbegging? Just port it guys so threads won't get derailed

Hopefully they port SMT5 on all platforms. TMS too
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The irony lol.

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Well if they can keep it down to SMTV port-begging level I would say it's somewhat of a success.
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You must not pay attention to Atlus threads.
 

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Now watch the port beggars and anti-exclusive people not respect a thing called choice.
 

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deadfolk said:
I just don't understand. P4G is locked to a now dead handheld.

P5 runs well on a PS3. What's their problem?
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And there's still no perfect version of P3 (With FemMC, proper town exploration and The Answer). If nothing else, that really feels like something that the series has been missing out on.
 
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Just bring it to Switch you fuckers, I wanna play the game
 
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