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Announced during the Xbox Showcase was the partnership between Microsoft and Atlus. Three games are coming over to Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S, all from the Persona series. Persona 3: Portable, Persona 4: Golden, and even Persona 5 Royal will all be heading to the platform. Persona 5 Royal will be launching first, on October 21st, and will also come to Windows PC. The other two entries will also be on PC as well, with a release timeframe in 2023. All three games will be a part of Game Pass. It's not currently known if these games will be available outside of the Windows storefront for PC.

 

[SG854]

Yeeeeesssssssssss

 

[SG854]

I don't know why I'm excited even though I can play P3P on a PSP emulator lol

 

[CPG_]

cant wait to laugh even harder at the copium filled twitter users asking for persona on switch

 

[Viri]

i dont even think they need to put work into running 3 and 4 on switch, so whats the big idea?

Maybe Nintendo wants to announce it at their direct? No idea.

 

[Xzi]

I don't know why I'm excited even though I can play P3P on a PSP emulator lol

Well they did a pretty good job with the P4G port, uprezzing a lot of the art and all that. So hopefully the P3P port isn't half-assed for some reason.

 

[anhminh]

Persona 6 never ever. It crazy how long it took for a sequel after Persona 5 rake in tons money for them

 

[eriol33]

Persona 6 never ever. It crazy how long it took for a sequel after Persona 5 rake in tons money for them

Actually my hope is getting high again after this announcement. But I think Atlus wants to milk soul hackers 2 and smt v first. There's a rumor the latter is going to pc as well.

 

[Xzi]

Actually my hope is getting high again after this announcement. But I think Atlus wants to milk soul hackers 2 and smt v first. There's a rumor the latter is going to pc as well.

Yeah I assumed from the beginning SMT V would only be Switch exclusive for a year. Heck at this point I think it's safe to assume all the Persona and SMT games will make their way over to PC eventually. Easy money for Atlus when all they have to do is a few touch-ups.

 

[Guacaholey]

Can't wait. Been planning to get rid of as many PS3 and PS4 games as possible (CMOS bug), though I have P3 FES on PS3.

 

[duwen]

Persona 6 never ever. It crazy how long it took for a sequel after Persona 5 rake in tons money for them

You might want to temper your expectations by looking at the time period between P4's original release and that of P5... or for that matter SMT3 and SMT4.

 

[Darth Meteos]

Ps4 emulator is now redundant

yeah, ready to retire my hacked ps4 now

 

[SANIC]

Persona 6 never ever. It crazy how long it took for a sequel after Persona 5 rake in tons money for them

It's likely the last announcement at the Persona Super Live in October

 

[RichardTheKing]

People will complain about P3 being the Portable version, but I actually consider it the best version - it's much faster and dynamic, you can control all of your party members and there's an extra protagonist. The pros greatly outweigh the cons - not controlling your party members sounds insane in a game that can be punishing and the FES content wasn't even all that good anyway. P3P was the only game in the series I've finished specifically because it was faster - I don't think anything was significantly lost in the transition.

I just hope we can mod in FES cutscenes and stuff, so it's not just static sprites in a PowerPoint slideshow. Ugh.
I did manage to emulate P3P a while back, but that just took me right out of the experience - the lifeless cutscenes. Understandable for the PSP, but not at all on 2022 PCs.

 

[DJPlace]

But what about the Female protagonist? Her side comes with plenty of differences from the original male MC. New social links, new equipment, dialogue changes, etc.
It's a massive overhaul to work with and obviously ATLUS doesn't want to spend so much money to do so.

true i forget about her...

 

[Valwinz]

But what about the Female protagonist? Her side comes with plenty of differences from the original male MC. New social links, new equipment, dialogue changes, etc.
It's a massive overhaul to work with and obviously ATLUS doesn't want to spend so much money to do so.

Her side comes with a non-canon fanfic story that ruins the feels of Persona 3

Fes comes with the canon events of Persona 3 and a 30-minute post-game content of the characters dealing with the loss of the leader

Fes is a water-down lazy Side port of the worst version of Persona 3 only ported because it features a character that can't even sell a game that they hype around her for 3ds

 

[AshuraZro]

Glad to see the games hitting more platforms. The rumoured embargo for other platforms of third party publisher announcements for games revealed at the Xbox event gives reason to seeing Steam and potentially other consoles. I have no doubt Steam will get the games at least considering it already has one.

 

[Valwinz]

Is also now coming to Steam and Ps5

 

[guisadop]

Apparently they're also coming to ps5 and steam

 

[_v3]

P3P was so much better than P3(FES) gameplay wise, you couldn't even use Direct Command in The Journey (IIRC it was fixed for The Answer). This led to so much AI BS that it was sometimes downright frustrating to play.

 

[AngryCinnabon]

Apparently they're also coming to ps5 and steam

We can only hope, a microsoft exclusive would be a huge killjoy, especially for the steam deck if the exclusivity is done via UWP files.