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@GameOtaku Honestly the "SMT isn't exclusive to Nintendo argument" really doesn't hold up anymore

Sony literally got nothing after Nocturne in terms of main entries. SMT Strange Journey, SMT IV, IV Apocalypse and V have all skipped Sony consoles and V in particular is actually being published by Nintendo in Europe which means they probably collaborated with Atlus on worldwide distribution and are a large factor in the game getting a simultaneous release which has never happened for any of Atlus' other games

At this point if Persona 6 is still only a PlayStation game, then I think the ship has sailed on Nintendo getting anything mainline related, and no amount of port-begging is probably gonna change that. Persona is essentially a glorified exclusive franchise in the same way No More Heroes is to Nintendo or even Final Fantasy was to Sony back in the day. It will always be on other platforms; the Q games are literally Nintendo-exclusives featuring the P3-5 casts, but until and unless the Switch lives out its entire cycle without a Persona port, Persona's practically exclusive to PlayStation without Atlus having to admit it

@ModdedInkling "Timed" is a pretty light statement considering Persona 5 is still only on PS3/PS4 and Persona 3 is only on PS2 and PSP and has yet to ever be re-released on anything else including modern PlayStation consoles

@MsJubilee I wouldn't say it's childish. Arena's actually a really damn good fighting game regardless of your familiarity with Persona

@Conangiga Ultimax is a sequel to Arena. Its story takes place directly after the first game and also boasts a much larger roster that includes more Persona 4 characters like Rise, Persona 3 characters that didn't show up in the first game like Yukari, Ken/Koromaru and Junpei, and shadow variations of all of them

@GameOtaku Ultimax actually had DLC that covered Arena's story as a catch up thing for people who didn't play the original, so I'd assume a remaster would just come with that and all the DLC characters out of the box

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax's story was all over the place and it's probably going to go over the head of people who haven't played Persona 4 and 3 considering one of the new characters is directly related to a Persona 3 character, but in terms of gameplay it's one of the best 2D anime fighters I've ever played and had amazing online

The royalty free music is what gets me lmao

The Final Fantasy medley is like Japan's honorary national anthem

Any moment they're presented with an opportunity to play it at a public event, they absolutely will

NiER music was a really nice surprise

Do I understand why people view this movie as a cynical cash grab that exists for no other reason than to flex how many IPs and characters Warner Bros. has access to and how many they haven't done anything with for years? Yes

Did I also stand up and clap in my home entertainment center when the f*cking DCAU Justice League all showed up for a cameo? YES.

That whole scene where Al. G Rhythm got the "audience" together to watch the big basketball game was literally my brain in a few frames of film

@nessisonett Honestly people complain about the implication of Loki doing selfcest stuff but honestly the idea of him falling in love with and settling down with literally himself from another reality is the most Loki thing Loki would do given his whole character is built off that narcassism

10th Doctor is my favorite Doctor so the idea of him meeting the current Doctor already intrigues me even if I'm not really that much of a fan of the writing during Whittaker's tenure

@tntswitchfan68 Yeah but the difference is modern Atlus doesn't have remotely close to a spotty track record with their games compared to modern Sonic Team lol

Every big game they've released over the last decade hasn't really disappointed at all

@JR150 I don't think Bayonetta was SEGA's call. It was probably more of a Nintendo/Platinum thing considering Nintendo is publishing the game even if SEGA owns the IP. Same with SMT V and Persona 5 given Atlus just announces things on their own terms

Sonic games have definitely turned into the "wait for reviews" kind of ordeal for me. Forces was a massive disappointment and because of it I kind of fell out with the franchise excluding Mania. Me playing Odyssey like immediately after that holiday did not help its case either

Also if you're acknowledging you showed the game too early, then why show it this early? Your trailer was literally just Sonic running in a forest and that was supposed to get people excited?

@SeantheDon29 That's a MASSIVE overexaggeration

SEGA may not do everything right but they've definitely proven they can more than survive without Sonic thanks to stuff like Yakuza, Judgement, Total War and the Atlus/Vanillaware IPs. If anything it's probably Sonic himself that's the afterthought these days at the company. It feels like he's only being kept alive because he's the mascot character

It'll only be a matter of time before he's replaced by Jack Frost

Got the launch steelbook pre-ordered at Best Buy. November can't come soon enough. This game was the reason I got a Switch in 2017

@Aerona Nah that's definitely off the table especially considering demons in your party still don't follow you in the overworld

It's probably going to be a replacement for the Streetpass Demon/item acquisition system from IV or getting to trade demons online if they want to cash in on the Pokemon craze. Maybe an online dungeon rescue system like P4G as well

I'm honestly impressed with how committed they are to supporting these ports and just their multiplatform games in general even post-Microsoft buyout

The DOOM ports when they first came out excluding DOOM 3 were extremely rough and now they're basically steals for how cheap they are unless you already have them on PC

@Sinton At this point the only way the NES/SNES Final Fantasies come to Switch is if/when the Pixel Remasters get ported to consoles after PC/mobile

The only thing this is a snapshot of is the clearance bin at Toys R' Us lol

TRANSLATION: "We're actually working on the console ports right now and are going to get our loyal customers (also known as "suckers") to double dip on them next year like Final Fantasy VII and IX lol"

@Kiwi_Unlimited Steam Deck isn't being released in most territories until 2022, even if you manage to get an order in during December, and even then I'd barely consider that thing portable at all despite the fact it's clearly going to be an emulation powerhouse

@JR150 Also it's the first SMT game to have an option between male/female protagonists and the first with a canon female protagonist route

Obviously in some form this idea would later be revisited in Persona 3 Portable

I'm so done

Japan got SMT If...

The Switch in that region has literally every pre-Nocturne main game, Nocturne and SMT V

I'm so f*cking done Nintendo

The last two quite literally take the "Remote" part of the Wii Remote name seriously

With the click wheel around the A button that totally looks straight up like a TV remote

@Dirty0814 "not as popular as you may think it was"

You mean selling 5 million copies within 4 months and being the fastest selling PS4-exclusive of all time in addition to literally carrying Square for the next fiscal year because of how badly Avengers did didn't make the game "popular"

We can argue about what actual fan reception was but it's inarguable that the game was definitely incredibly successful and they're definitely taking note of that. It even caused a major temporary resurgence in PS4 console sales in Japan, a region where the console hasn't done nearly as well as past generations for Sony

@Manjushri This game has way more substance than the screenshots might give. It's actually extremely self aware about the fact it apes those kinds of tropes in visual novel games and that's what makes it considerably creepier

@RupeeClock Considering the game became a phenomenon overnight when it originally launched on PC it's not entirely unexpected this game is doing this well with an established fanbase

Oh damn

That probably means North America isn't far behind

I get the Wii U since most of its best games are now either on Switch or multiplatform, but why the 3DS?

Also RIP getting the MegaTen games on there for cheap now as well

Everyone go download SMT IV and the two Devil Survivors ASAP

This is a genuinely unexpected port. I really dug Dying Light on PC though. It stands out from most games involving zombie outbreaks with its open world approach and empahsis on movement and parkour specficially

Yeah this pretty much tells me they're going to be overhauling a lot of things about the way DQ is at present

I have a feeling the success of FFVII Remake might've been used for the DQ team to evaluate how they can implement some form of real time gameplay to the existing systems because of the Tactical Mode in VII Remake being the game's stand out combat feature, as it blended the strategy of the original game's turn based battles with the flow of the new action-based combat

Either way they're probably purposely going to try and inch the series closer to being a hybrid of turn based and real time so they can keep the essence of Dragon Quest while expanding the audience for the games similar to Final Fantasy. The aforementioned "darker, more adult" story is clearly them trying to make the series more appealing to Western audiences since Final Fantasy is doing the same thing with entries like XII, parts of XIV, XV and even today with XVI

how could you forget the majesty that is the Donkey Kong Country cartoon

Switch OLED should only be considered if you're a first time Switch-owner. If you're in the market for one and haven't jumped in yet this is the model that those people should be aiming to get

For everyone who already owns Switches though this really isn't a necessary upgrade, especially if you only game in TV mode or use that most of the time

@TowaHerschel7 Through backwards compatibility yes just like P3P on Vita. It's never been natively re-released though

I won't be getting either for now since I have a perfectly functional Switch and I'm more than contempt with continuing to game on PC since the control layout for the Steam Deck doesn't really look that comfortable as someone who primarily plays controller-enabled games on Steam

I do think the Deck looks pretty damn tempting though for those who already have a Switch and say, want to get in on games that likely won't be getting ported to it anytime soon

@UltimateOtaku91 Strikers isn't a good parameter for a P5 Switch port. That's 100% a Koei Tecmo thing and runs on their in house engine and not the Persona one. It just visually looks similar to P5 or Royal to remain faithful to the art direction in those games

@NEStalgia Actually Catherine was developed by P-Studio alumni so those people were directly hands on with that game. Same with some Persona spinoffs like the two Q games on 3DS which involved people like Soejima, Kazuhisa Wada and Hashino

In terms of the prospect of exclusivity you also have to kind of ask that same question about Persona 3 and 4 as well, particularly 3 since it's still only available on PlayStation 2, PSP and PS Vita and has never been re-released on any other console since

@SalvorHardin Atlus doesn't need to be concerned with making money if P5 is already their best selling game in history. Being concerned about making money was what got them to a comfortable position now. They've escaped bankruptcy twice between the late 2000's and when they were acquired by SEGA

Crazy how people talk about how Atlus should be concerned about making money and yet most of their games on Switch don't do that well because y'all aren't willing to support them because "iTs nOt mUH pErSoNa 5". It's this crowd of people who are probably the one roadblock stopping SMT V from actually doing as well as it deserves

@UltimateOtaku91 There are multiple factors as to why P5 on Switch is such a demanded port

• Salty Nintendo fans wanting Joker's Smash inclusion to be "validated" whatever the hell that means
• Some people were only made aware of Persona through Smash but don't have a platform that the games can be played on
• Atlus' tendency to release portable versions of their main entries after the initial console releases like the PSP remakes of 1/2, Persona 3 Portable and Persona 4 Golden on Vita

I don't agree with the people on Twitter doing crap like #BreakFreePersona or whatever or constantly bickering under SMT V stuff about Persona on Switch (even people on this website), but there are legitimate factors outside the selfish ones for why such a port has a strong following whether it be from Atlus fans or people who can't play the game because they don't have a PS4

Or you know instead of preordering an OLED Switch they can save up for a PS5 but who knows

If FFVII and IX were any indication the Pixel Remasters will definitely come to consoles but it'll take like a year

The PS1 games were also ported to PC and mobile first, then PS4 to drum up hype for FFVII Remake, and then finally Switch and Xbox

As for other games there are a lot of AAAs that are still somewhat ill-suited for the hardware despite the miracle ports that have come along. If we're calling ports like DOOM Eternal and Witcher 3 "miracle ports" that says a lot about how woefully underpowered for the big name stuff the platform really is. In fact FFXV is actually a great example of this considering Hajime Tabata has been quoted as saying his team tried multiple times to get the main FFXV game to run on Switch, even going as far as converting the game to UE4 instead of the Luminous Engine, and it just couldn't handle it which is why Pocket Edition happened instead

Another thing to consider is that there probably aren't a lot of people that use Switch as their sole console platform, and usually have another platform to go alongside it like a PS4 or a PC, so the market for big AAA stuff on Switch, while there is probably vastly undermined due to the ratio of sacrifice needed to get the game running on the platform against how well it would actually do with people who only own Switches and haven't gotten the game on anything else. That's why stuff like Control and Guardians of the Galaxy being cloud games is relatively low risk for these companies compared to native ports as well, especially if the technical hurdles are too much

That trailer was very jarringly edited

On the bright side maybe this will take their attention away from PS5 and Series X consoles so more people can get those

hey guys look it's persona on the switch just like you wanted

@Ralizah I will not tolerate slander towards my school binder with a disc drive

"PlayStation is closely monitoring the market response to Nintendo's strategy"

I hope this means they realize people want to see a new PSP from them and not that they'll feel compelled to charge an extra 50 bucks on a new PS5 model with more curves lol

@nhSnork "...that isn't the Xbox Series S"

I'm definitely not picking up Skyward Sword at full price. It's not even close to my favorite 3D Zelda to begin with

@Aozz101x Persona 5: silently sits in the corner