Persona 5 Scramble Still Planned For The West, According To Koei Tecmo Report

What exactly do you mean by “show support”?

This one looks good, but I still haven't played p5

I'll support just about anything Atlus puts on the Switch.

Between this, Catherine, TMS #FE Encore, SMT V, and Nocturne HD, nobody can say they're ignoring the Switch now.

An western release date was probably planned to be announced but got delayed because of the virus. Atlus might have it's best year next year with Persona 5 Scramble, Shin Megami Tensei 3 HD and Shin Megami Tensei V.

@Joker1234 Oh yeah, next year is NUTS for Atlus fans. I'm still blown away about being able to play through Nocturne again on a portable device. I thought that was just a pipe dream.

@PrincessAzunyan Basically everything they've pushed out since the PS2 has been gold. I was actually a huge Etrian Odyssey fan for years before I became aware of their other stuff, but I think Megami Tensei is probably my all-time favorite JRPG franchise at this point.

Their extended support for the 3DS is a big part of why that system is my all-time favorite dedicated handheld.

It would be cool to get a remaster of the remaster of Baroque, another Atlus gem. Anybody remember that one, on the Saturn?

I doubt this is going to be ready even by the end of this year but if this ends up coming out in 2021 while we're also getting SMT Nocturne HD Remaster and SMT V, it's going to be a good time to be an Atlus fan. Maybe they'll throw in another Persona PC port while they're at it since P4G seemed to have exceeded their expectations.

I think for the Western release I'll get it on PS4 because I did play the JP Switch version but I feel like this game was even more of a sequel in narrative and gameplay than I anticipated, so it feels right putting it next to my PS4 copies of Vanilla and Royal. Plus it'll more than likely be PS5 backwards compatible since it'll be coming out well after that mandate established by Sony.

I’ll probably end up getting this. I ain’t the biggest jrpg fan but I really liked Persona 5. This Scramble game also reminded me about theat Fire Emblem game that Tecmo made on the Switch some years back. I should get that too.

@Joker1234 nothing to do with the virus. the released a survey during the outbreak a while back this year being stupid
https://www.nintendoenthusiast.com/persona-5-scramble-survey/

@Ralizah PS scramble runs like trash on the switch just to let you know https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoNRhm2XBZU

@Benhop07 its on PS3 for $5 if you cant do that. youre picky.

@PrincessAzunyan thats whats so horrible its on the PS3 nintendo babies act like they cant play more than one system. persona fans make sonic fans seem tame

@NintendoPok

Runs like trash?? ...It...it looks almost identical. Switch version has longer loading times, but it looks very similar. I'd take longer loading times for portability.

@NintendoPok I've played the Switch demo. It runs fine.

@Joker1234 There's nothing stopping Atlus simply announcing a western release will happen, even if they're uncertain about the date

@NintendoPok Well as someone who actually beat the game on Switch the only graphical downgrade I found noticeable was the increased amount of aliasing which was already present in the PS4 version in addition to the halved framerate, which is honestly a fair compromise considering the game performs extremely well next to the PS4 version otherwise.

So why we have to support Persona 5 Scramble? good things come to those who wait?

Since this is a direct sequel to the first, i can see p5R happening for the switch at some point in time.

Ok, but when are we getting the actual Persona 5?

It’s a shame they didn’t seem to get the voice actors to record their lines at the same time as P5R or the animation.

But after playing Persona Q2 without a dub recently, I think for this game I’d rather be patient and await the localisation.

I still find it strange given both companies involved that there’s no dlc as yet.

The most Persona 5 we're ever going to get on Switch is gonna be playing as Joker on the Mementos stage.

the game is planned for a future release so that could mean they haven't translated the game for the West yet so this game could be a year or two away

With Shin Megami Tensei 5 and Nocturne in the pipeline there's no reason for me to invest in this spinoff of another main spinoff. Joker to me at this point is just another ad character in Smash Ultimate and that's it.

I’ll show my support for scramble as soon as P5R is ported to switch then I’ll gladly support it. It makes no sense to have it on the platform when you can’t experience the whole story on switch (I remind everyone it is a direct sequel to 5 so spoilers will be in the game ruining hundreds of hours of character development). PS4 is perfect for it though so why choose the switch port over it considering that’s the only place you can experience P5 (at least for now)?

@NintendoPok I might do that after my backlog clears out

I played the demo for this and really enjoyed it so I will most likely buy this if it goes on sale.

@Rpg-lover The only way this is going to happen is if SEGA actually pushes Atlus to do it lol

For the time being I see Steam versions of P3FES and P5R as considerably more likely now that P4G on Steam has proven to be incredibly lucrative for SEGA atm.

@TheFrenchiestFry then why didn't p5S come to steam if that was the case?
I see p5R happening on the switch before steam.

@Slowdive My eyebrow cocked when i read that. If I had a beard I'd be stroking it, pensively.

@Rpg-lover Persona spinoffs being on non-PlayStation systems has been a thing for close to a decade. It's not surprising at all that P5S came to Switch without any port of the main game. Just like how P4 Arena and Ultimax both came to Xbox 360 without being prefaced by a Persona 4 port despite the fact the Arena games are canonical sequels to both P4 and P3, or how the Q series is exclusive to the 3DS. P4G on Steam happened as a result of SEGA wanting to commit to the PC playerbase as a result of the success of the Yakuza games and Valkyria Chronicles 4 on Steam beforehand. Atlus wouldn't have ported P4G at all unless SEGA pushed them to, but now its proven to work in their favor, so Persona on Steam is definitely going to continue to be a thing. As for dedicated consoles, it's still unlikely for the time being.

@Ralizah do you like Catherine? I hear good things, but not sure if it's worth getting on Switch.

@IronMan30 Catherine is great! The puzzle game aspects are ingenious (very simple, but surprisingly deep in terms of how exploitable the system is), the life/relationship sim parts are quite engaging (you'll be able to save people, change the course of the game, etc. depending on your dialogue choices, who you choose to spend time with at the bar, what text messages or phone calls you choose to respond to, etc.), and the game has 13 or so endings, most of them radically different, so it's very replayable. Unlike a lot of Atlus games, it's also not absurdly long (I think my first run was somewhere between 10 and 15 hours).

Worth mentioning is that the Switch release comes with all of the DLC included by default.

Great avatar, btw. Love Bill Hicks.