Persona 6. Just uttering the words is almost an exercise in meditation at this point. Center yourselves, fellow Atlus fans. Surely, it will one day exist. Never mind that between Persona 5 and its stellar Royal re-release, over ten million copies have been sold. Focus not on the fact that Persona 5 itself is nearing a decade since its original launch. Just tell yourself, like a prayer, that Persona 6 will be announced before the heat-death of the universe.
Good news, by the way: It probably will be. That’s (more or less) the response from one of gaming’s most prolific leakers. And don’t worry about that Persona 4 Revival announcement, either. P-Studio isn’t letting a return to Yasugami High School lead them astray.
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Replying to a (rather understandable, to be honest) question from @#HMMMSHHA over on Twitter, wherein the hypothesis was made that Persona 6 is in “dev hell,” prominent leaker NateTheHate simply answered that the game is “not in dev hell.” A damned relief, to be sure. P-Studio has clearly been cooking for quite a while.
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“All the signs pointed to it being announced some time in December, then everything hit the fan.”
While some will no doubt call me far too big an optimist, I’d say it’s even possible that Persona 6 is taking so long because Sega would rather Atlus not repeat the tried-and-true, sales-fizzling, “they’re obviously going to re-release this, why buy it now?” problem that’s been dampening the legs on recent launches. Games are still launching to relatively rock-solid numbers, but their tails have been chopped as a result.
Hopium aside, @mangako2011145 skillfully reiterated something important, too – development on Persona 6 isn’t affected by Persona 4 Revival to any sizable degree. “P4R is being developed mainly by an external developer called TOSE. For this reason, most of the P-Studio staff are focused on P6, which began development many years ago, long before P4R.”
Nate answered with one word: “Correct.” Really, all that needs to be said. And by the by, TOSE is one of the great unsungs of the Japanese gaming scene. They’ve been around since 1979. They’ve put loads of work into games from Dragon Warrior Monsters and Metal Gear: Ghost Babel on the Game Boy Color, to Atlus’ own Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner – Soul Hackers on PlayStation. World of Final Fantasy? That was partly them. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door’s Switch remake? Yup. I’ve barely scratched the surface.
All of which is to say, getting TOSE on Persona 4 Revival is, as far as I’m concerned, a good sign all its own. And if it means Persona 6 is unaffected? More’s the merrier, because I can only replay my way through Cafe LeBlanc so many times, y’all…
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