Persona 3 Portable rumored to be getting a multiplatform remaster

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Atlus started celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Persona series this September, and will continue to make announcements through Fall of 2022. While the first few announcements were relatively light - new pieces of merchandise like clothing, and a $400 vinyl box set of remastered soundtracks for every mainline entry - December 9 saw the first major announcement take place at The Game Awards, a remaster of Persona 4 Arena Ultimax coming in early 2022.

Interestingly, this news was leaked by blogger Zippo back in July, who accurately predicted the remaster. Of course, Ultimax was noticeably absent from modern platforms, not even being backwards compatible on the Xbox One as its predecessor was, so it could be considered an obvious prediction. Regardless, he predicted that only Ultimax would be coming, rather than both Arena titles, and the release would be next year.

On the night of The Game Awards, Zippo posted again, first gloating about his proven prediction, then casually mentioning "Oh, and Persona 3 Portable is getting a remaster. Multiplatform."

This release would be significant as fans have been clamoring for a Persona 3 Portable release for years, and Atlus has hardly acknowledged the game since its release in 2009. Despite missing the visual flair and explorable 3D environments outside of dungeons of the console release, Portable is often considered the best way to play Persona 3 due to the ability to control each party member, plus the addition of an alternate protagonist who alters much of the game's dialogue and story events, something no other Persona game has featured.

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If they were to do an actual 3d remake of Persona 3, how much of the early work would be considered done? Wouldn't some of the modelling work that was used in the Dancing games be able to carry over? I know there'd still be lots to do, but I don't think it's as insurmountable as some people are making it. And while the FeMC story is nice (really, I mostly just like her music), I really only care about the original path, plus the aftermath story. So yeah, I really hope they don't re-release P3P.
 

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Oh the irony.

Y'all ask for ports of the Persona games, but complain about it when it's rumored to be Portable.
I get where you’re coming from, but the situation here is a bit different. I’m not saying that I don’t want a port, there should absolutely be one, but it’s definitely a weird scenario because there’s no “definitive” version of Persona 3.

Both FES and Portable have their pros and cons, but honestly I’d rather have FES ported since it has the Answer, higher quality voices, the fully 3D explorable sections, etc. That being said, I would like to see them include some QOL from the Portable version since there were some nice additions. Stuff like the aforementioned controllable party members in battle. I think they fixed the EXP to where it didn’t divide up among your party members and instead just gave everyone the full amount. Also they made it so you didn’t automatically romance Social Links at a certain level, which is great because there’s definitely a whole Persona locked behind maxing all the links which is really hard to do when everyone thinks you’re cheating on them and they can rank down
 

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just give me this game with THE ANSWER in it and the PS2 MAP setting and we are GOLDEN.
 
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I feel like at this point a new Persona 3 port needs a definitive edition with both the FES and portable features added (So party control, moving around physically in the areas, FeMC route, and the Answer).
 
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I might be one of thew few people out there that greatly prefer Portable to FES. I honestly don't mind Portable's navigation (in fact, I prefer it) but I honestly can understand why people prefer FES over Portable. Either way, I'm probably gonna be getting it regardless of whether it's based on FES or Portable.
 

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I just started playing the SMT: Nocturne Remaster on ps5. Crashes galore. Goddamn Unity engine. Hopefully this is developed with Unreal or something better.
 

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This needs one thing, let us run around the school like in persona 4 not the navigation like on the PSP. That killed the experience for me.
 
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It would have been better to remake Persona 3 with all the content of P3 FES and P3P respectively. Making a remaster of Persona 3 Portable means releasing the same game without any kind of improvement beyond increasing the resolution.
 

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Portable isn't that bad, it was my first persona game that I played on a psp emulator The only crappy part was that the cutscenes all became dialog boxes or pictures. I would rather they just release something because the game itself is really fun. and I agree with #41 lmao.
 

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Not really.

It would make some sense for them to port it on certain consoles though. The Switch, for example, would actually be a prime target, due to it being a handheld.

FES, however, would be better for PC in the marketing sense since we all know what the heck the audience will say.
Not really.

It would make some sense for them to port it on certain consoles though. The Switch, for example, would actually be a prime target, due to it being a handheld.

FES, however, would be better for PC in the marketing sense since we all know what the heck the audience will say.
Subtle portbegging is still portbegging
 

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P3P was pretty great and I liked playing as the girl since it felt like a lot of the relationships she could have were more heartbreaking / emotional in general, so i'd probably get this if it came out now.
 

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By multiplatform they mean PC as well?
Was on a PCSX2 playthrough of P3 FES already but if it's (possibly) getting an actual port I can wait.
 

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