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Microsoft announced on Sunday that three highly-acclaimed games in the Persona series will be coming to Xbox One, Series X|S and Windows PC, all on Game Pass. Persona 3 Portable, Persona 4 Golden, and Persona 5 Royal will be making their way to Xbox over the coming months, starting with Royal on October 21, 2022. This is significant as, until now, most mainline Persona games had been restricted to PlayStation platforms, with the exception of the original game getting a PC port in Japan in 1999, three years after its initial release.

Today, Atlus also confirmed these titles will be coming to Steam and PlayStation 5. It's currently unclear whether or not these ports will release on the same schedule as the Xbox ones. Golden already released on Steam back in June of 2020, and Royal is playable on PS5 through backwards compatibility with the PS4 version, but this will finally bring the most popular titles in the series consistently to a number of platforms. It also marks the first port of Persona 3 Portable, which has been locked on the PSP since its release in 2010.

Speaking of Persona 3 Portable, news of its port leaked back in December by a blogger named Zippo. While Zippo said it would be getting a "multiplatform remaster," and this appears to be more of a straight port, he nevertheless accurately predicted that it would be getting a multiplatform re-release. He also leaked, correctly, that Persona 4 Ultimax would be getting a port in July of 2021, before its announcement that December.

Zippo has again posted a leak regarding the Persona series. On Sunday, the day of Microsoft's press conference, Zippo posted a celebratory post about the announcements, and ended with the message "Don't worry, Nintendo and Sony fans, your time will come. They're coming to your platforms, too." He later updated his post to clarify that Persona 3 and Persona 4 (presumably the Portable and Golden versions) will be coming to Switch, but he's unsure if Persona 5 Royal will be making it to Nintendo's platform.

Of course, this is just a rumour, so take it with a grain of salt, but Zippo does have two solid Persona-related leaks under their belt at this point.

Source: GBAtemp Inbox

 

[guisadop]

wish we would get a physical release/collection on PS4 or PS5

 

[AngryCinnabon]

It would be nice to have 3P and 4 Golden on a handheld console, only current way to do that is the vita which you'd spend tons on just to have copies of now. Royal might be a bit too much for the switch but who knows?

 

[Chary]

What's that, daddy Atlus? Get all the achievements in Persona 4 Golden for the third and fourth time? Anything you say.

 

[Xzi]

Was gonna start a play through of P3P on my Steam Deck soon one way or another, so the timing of this announcement is perfect.

 

[DS1]

Dang, I'm never going to get to play Golden huh lol.

 

[jt_1258]

tbh...I've got a pretty good feeling that the only reason we haven't heard about them coming to switch yet is cause they want to announce it at the direct this month...which considering how lite the switches release calendar is looking for the latter half of the year it would be more shocking if there wasn't a direct

 

[Valwinz]

Persona 3 Portable is the worst version of the game literal barebones no soul. so not sure why people are happy about a PSP game been upscale when they can play it on PC right now free and looking better.

Here Hoping FES gets a port since the definitive Persona 3 Experience.

Persona 4G on switch would be good if it is the Vita version and not the ugly Steam version

 

[Sansgaming420]

Persona 4G on switch would be good if it is the Vita version and not the ugly Steam version

It's the exact same graphics, just in 60 fps with better ui resolution.

 

[Goku1992A]

I got a Vita so I'm good

 

[Valwinz]

It's the exact same graphics, just in 60 fps with better ui resolution.

some stuff looks off

 

[SugoiEndeavor]

It's the exact same graphics, just in 60 fps with better ui resolution.

Maybe they meant Golden vs the original?

 

[Marc_LFD]

On Xbox? Nice.

Not a fan of the series although I appreciate seeing it on multiple consoles.

 

[1B51004]

It would be understandable if persona 5 couldn't come to switch (better hardware needed to run it and all), but it's nice that we're getting persona 3 and 4 on switch!

still wondering where these leaker get their information from (besides the obvious answers). might be a worthwhile hobby... or not.

 

[Marc_LFD]

It would be understandable if persona 5 couldn't come to switch (better hardware needed to run it and all), but it's nice that we're getting persona 3 and 4 on switch!

still wondering where these leaker get their information from (besides the obvious answers). might be a worthwhile hobby... or not.

The Switch was capable of running BotW and Mario Odyssey, but an RPG is too much?

Even DBZ Kakarot (kinda sucks, imo) which was "too powerful" was eventually released on the Switch.

 

[1B51004]

The Switch was capable of running BotW and Mario Odyssey, but an RPG is too much?

Even DBZ Kakarot (kinda sucks, imo) which was "too powerful" was eventually released on the Switch.

yeah, fair

i guess they can make optimizations and such, but i would imagine it wouldn't be the best way to play it. still, nice that we're getting it.

 

[Viri]

It would be pretty funny if Persona 5 was stream only for Switch.

 

[Plstic]

why are they releasing golden again on steam?

 

[LightBeam]

How could the Switch not be able to run Persona 5 ? A freaking PS3 could run it and they made Doom Eternal and The Witcher 3 playable on Switch.
There's no way Persona 5R couldn't be ported lmao. It's just Atlus being Atlus. But hey, I won't complain, they got everything on the gamepass, having these on the Switch would be great but at least that's on PC now

 

[Guacaholey]

It would be nice to have 3P and 4 Golden on a handheld console, only current way to do that is the vita which you'd spend tons on just to have copies of now. Royal might be a bit too much for the switch but who knows?

I doubt it, it's an updated version of a PS3 game.