Note: Please bear in mind to not just port-beg in this thread. This isn't about whether or not you want Persona 5 on Switch (if you are posting in this thread, chances are high you do want it). Don't just post that you do, and move on. Rather, this is more a thread to try and discuss the likelihood of Persona 5 on Switch happening, and whether or not the announcement of Joker in Smash last night makes it any likelier that it may be inbound.
With that out of the way...
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The question of whether or not Persona 5 will hit Switch has been a pretty common one. Persona 5 is one of the most requested Switch ports, and there have been enough reasons to believe it will happen- Atlus is incredibly close with Nintendo, every Persona game to date has had a portable release (and Switch is the only portable on the market now), Atlus likes re-releasing expanded versions of their games... On the other hand, the historic separation of Persona from Nintendo on Atlus' part has been enough to suggest that it might not happen too.
The Persona 5 Smash Bros. announcement from last night does change things a bit, though. You have to imagine Nintendo, who are the ones who are deciding on the DLC characters for Smash, aren't going to necessarily pick characters who aren't beneficial to them from a business perspective. Yes, Joker as DLC will sell a lot, but he stands to advertise an exclusive on a competing console, and Nintendo doesn't gain much there. My personal opinion is that Joker's inclusion in Smash is a bit like Cloud's- at the time a character from a game that has historically been exclusive only to PlayStation, with lots of cross media promotion by PlayStation, and no history with Nintendo, but followed afterwards by the announcement of said game coming to Switch. I think Persona 5 in some form (either a straight port- unlikely, since Atlus doesn't do those much; or an expanded re-release) is coming to the Switch, and this is a portend of that announcement to come (I assume said announcement will be in April at the Persona Super Live concert, which is where Atlus has historically announced Persona projects for the last few years now).
What do you think, however? Do you think the Joker in Smash announcement could indicate that Persona on Switch is now likely? Where there is smoke, there is fire?
With that out of the way...
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The question of whether or not Persona 5 will hit Switch has been a pretty common one. Persona 5 is one of the most requested Switch ports, and there have been enough reasons to believe it will happen- Atlus is incredibly close with Nintendo, every Persona game to date has had a portable release (and Switch is the only portable on the market now), Atlus likes re-releasing expanded versions of their games... On the other hand, the historic separation of Persona from Nintendo on Atlus' part has been enough to suggest that it might not happen too.
The Persona 5 Smash Bros. announcement from last night does change things a bit, though. You have to imagine Nintendo, who are the ones who are deciding on the DLC characters for Smash, aren't going to necessarily pick characters who aren't beneficial to them from a business perspective. Yes, Joker as DLC will sell a lot, but he stands to advertise an exclusive on a competing console, and Nintendo doesn't gain much there. My personal opinion is that Joker's inclusion in Smash is a bit like Cloud's- at the time a character from a game that has historically been exclusive only to PlayStation, with lots of cross media promotion by PlayStation, and no history with Nintendo, but followed afterwards by the announcement of said game coming to Switch. I think Persona 5 in some form (either a straight port- unlikely, since Atlus doesn't do those much; or an expanded re-release) is coming to the Switch, and this is a portend of that announcement to come (I assume said announcement will be in April at the Persona Super Live concert, which is where Atlus has historically announced Persona projects for the last few years now).
What do you think, however? Do you think the Joker in Smash announcement could indicate that Persona on Switch is now likely? Where there is smoke, there is fire?