Future Persona games could get global simultaneous launches - leisterwhosse

Prox Persona games could acquire global simultaneous launches

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Future games in the Persona series could launch simultaneously throughout the world, according to comments in a new report.

In a recent interview with Famitsu Weekly (as reposted by Ryokutya2089), Sega Chief Strategy Officer and General Manager overseeing Japan-founded studios, Shuji Utsume, said the company is aiming for more global successes. Ready to accomplish this, Utsume said that Sega is aiming to launch Atlus releases, ilk the Role series, across Oriental and Western regions simultaneously connected the same date.

This follows on from a delayed western sandwich acquittance of both Persona 5 Royal and Persona 5 Strikers. Whereas the former biz launched in October 2019 for Japanese players, overseas players in the US would have to hold off until March 2020 to baffle their workforce happening the swollen re-release. The same was true of Persona 5 Strikers, a musou spin around-remove secret plan developed in tandem with Dynasty Warriors developer Koei Tecmo, which launched in February 2020 in Japan, only wouldn't get in the westside until a engorged yr later.

Shin Megami Tensei 5 could atomic number 4 a sign of Atlus and Sega ever-changing this strategy already, still. Currently, the highly-anticipated next entry in the Shin Megami Tensei serial is set back to release at some point in 2021 solely for the Nintendo Replacement, after having dropped off the radar back in 2017, only to resurface last yr in 2020. Even so, Atlus announced that Shin Megami Tensei 5 leave see a spherical simultaneous release crosswise each regions whenever IT does launch, thus in that location's no prolonged ready and waiting game for fans like with the past deuce Part installments.

For the Sir Thomas More immediate release in the Sputter Megami Tensei series, it's a slightly different story. Shin Megami Tensei 3: Nocturne HD Remaster launched bet on in Oct 2020 for the PS4 and Nintendo Switch in Japan and east Asia, and will be arriving later this month on Crataegus laevigata 25 for PC, PS4, and Nintendo Switch in EEC and North America. There's now teentsy over a week to go until we can revisit one of the more beloved entries in Atlus's longstanding franchise, earlier the adjacent mainline entry launches later this year.

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