I was thinking more like 4 Apocalypse.
Oh, I thought you meant like a rerelease with more content. I agree that something more like "V Final" is the way to go.
Do you have source that MS paid for SMT Nine?
No, but that's just an assumption, like all the other xbox exclusives that showed up in the first 1-2 years. Even if they didn't pay for it, they do at least have some history with the platform. And hey, if they didn't pay back then, they've most definitely payed to get SMT on GP. After seeing SHa2 launch day and date on Xbox platforms, I feel like Microsoft just went to Sega with a big bag of cash and has been working to get their non-Sonic titles on the platform. I don't think we'll ever see something like NINE again, but I think if MS wants to change or grow their audience, stunts like the "Persona on Xbox" at E3 2022 are necessary going forward.
Nine originally supposed to be online game in an era when online consoles were not. My guess is that the game was actually meant for the Dreamcast which had online and was ahead of its time. When Sega pulled the plug they tried the other online console. But considering it’s one of the only JRPGS on a console that has a huge RPG library, I think if MS has paid for that game; it would have had an English translation.
That's what's scary about Big Tech: they don't really need it to be sustainable, a Microsoft quarter can easily offset any investment.
You don’t sell Xbox and Game Pass based on these Japanese games ports. You address your weakness with the ports, then you sell people on other things like the upcoming slate of first party games from Xbox Game Studios + Bethesda. Addressing weaknesses is important even if it doesn’t lead to direct sales, all platform holders need to do that. You do it so you eliminate “but what about X?” impulses when someone is considering an Xbox for Starfield or something like that.
I’m fully aware of when that component was split but the time frames are a bit too narrow
Why were they so trusting of Xbox, a new player at the time, I wonder? Sure it was only one game, but it was the next mainline SMT game and they made it exclusive to a new platform. In fact, a lot of publishers and devs seemed pretty gungho about Xbox in the early days and even the 360. Certainly more trust than they gave the Switch before launch.
First Nine isn’t mainline and Nocturne was right around the corner literally. Plus it was vastly different era.
I mean, it wasn't one source, it was just generally acknowledged and by people in the Japan industry waaaay back in the Gaming-Age Forums days. I dunno, it doesn't seem implausible and early in the Xbox days MS was throwing around tons of cash to publishers to get games on the system.
The whole thing is not impossible. It’s just unlikely. Non Persona SMT games didn’t start getting English translations until Nocturne and at that time period MS didn’t really have anyone onboard with knowledge of Japanese only franchises. You are telling me they open the piggy bank for a game that would have been unknowns to them and then didn’t specify an English version? Or a developer they would have never heard of? And the dev kits wouldn’t have been out until late 2001 when the game was already in development.
Yeah Nine was so far back that I don't know if we can extrapolate anything to current day MS anyways. Regardless, I think if SMT 3-5 end up on Xbox (especially GP), we can probably agree that MS paid for it in some way. My bigger theory is that they went back to Sega after the Yakuza deals and asked for Atlus games.
Atlus 2002.
Perhaps let’s steer this back on topic. I just went off topic because assumptions are no facts.
watch it be dlc
[Persona Central] Atlus Teases Several Unannounced New Titles for 2023
The port is releasing this month. After it's released, nothing would prevent them from announcing a remake this year.www.resetera.com
ATLUS potentially remaking Persona 3 and cutting FemMC would be completely on brand.
DLC? Pfft it will be the “enhancement” with the inevitable enhanced version.
We can't be sure about support for any non-PlayStation platform for Persona 6. That is however not a change from the status quo to begin with, it was true in the DS and 3DS days, and no one would call that support bad.
Well that's because Atlus was releasing Trauma Team, New Etrian Odyssey games, SMT games, Historia, Persona Q, etc
Sorry, I’m not sure how I missed your reply.
My mistake. I meant to say SMT AND a bunch or ports. I know SMT isn't a port. Sorry for the confusion.
I would suggest not looking at oversocialized forums prone to emotional outbursts to gauge what is and isn't likely. Myself and others pointed out it was probably a simple marketing thing. It'd be more insightful to look at the teams behind a project, the state of the market when preproduction began, scope of the project, etc.
They should've been selling both Persona 3/4 and Etrian Odyssey 1/2/3 for $30 each instead of $20 for Persona and $40 for EO.
IMO 20 for each Etrian Odyssey would make more sense for what it is. And I don't even mean for growing the franchise, as I don't think there's anywhere it can go without a dual-screen console (still hate the fact that they never did a full-blown title on Wii U).
SMT3HD still sold over 600k, on par with SMT4. I think they should've put more effort into it and not launch it with the issues that it had at launch.
This isn't exactly true as we know 1st Production had 3 "major" inhouse projects being done in tandem; SMTV, SH2 and a 3rd unconfirmed one (which was probably the EO Collection). 1st Production staff moves around a lot and too much was probably made about some EO leads working on SMTV, that doesn't mean total project/team consolidation.
