My my, first rumours of a Sony Bend AAA game, and now someone from Deep Silver has said a PS Vita port of Escape Dead Island is something they could consider:

http://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2014/08/30/escape-dead-island-ps-vita-can-be-considered/

Granted it's old hat, but with the PlayStation TV launch, if Sony are readying up another bout of AAA Vita content for 2015, PlayStation Experience might hold a few surprises for Vita owners afterall.

I don't really think so because they're such different games. Persona was still very much a dungeon crawler in the SMT mold, and 4 is so zany and has so many life sim elements that a moodier soundtrack would probably just sound out of place. Persona 3's tone and color palette places it somewhere in between those two, so it might work there.

I was refering to it taking place in school plus demons.  I mean, strip the love simulator stuff out of Persona 4 and the games are similar.  Especially the beginning of Persona 4 and the more errie aspects.  Though Persona was made at a time of hardware, and skill limitations.  Even compared to other 2D RPGs Persona's pretty rough.  I think that lends to a more errie style.  Cause with the jpop, it's like a modern Persona despite it originally being more "occult".  I guess what I'm getting at is they could leave Person 1 as is, add in a dating simulator aspect and you'd get Persona 4 minus the jpop.

Ohhhh, good pun.

Wow, I'm glad someone picked up on it :D

It's pretty much a real deal: http://www.bendstudio.com/careers

It says:

"Bend Studio, the creators of Sony’s flagship Vita title Uncharted Golden Abyss, is currently looking for the game industries top talent to help create AAA content for Sony's powerful new hardware.  Candidates must be passionate about their work and thrive in small-team environments where everyone inspires and pushes everyone else to create great products."

General consensus seems to be that it's a HR cock up. The wording is "Sony's powerful new hardware" which would actually be PS4. Sounds like it's FF Type-0 all over again.

From the hyperlink that is in that news website about the AAA game for Vita:

https://playstation.taleo.net/careersection/sceaexternal1/jobdetail.ftl?job=05146

Bend Studio the creators of Sony’s flagship Vita title Uncharted Golden Abyss is currently looking for the entertainment industries top Artistic talent to help us create AAA content for Sony's powerful new hardware.  We just scratched the surface on what the Vita can do with Uncharted Golden Abyss and expect to push the platform even further with our future projects. 

Wut? Is it for PS4 or Vita? Smells like FF Type-0 really.

Or maybe both will have AAA games from them.

There's definitely something inherently unsettling about lo-fi games. Modern survival horror has nothing on Silent Hill or Clock Tower in terms of creep factor. The refinements in terms of writing contribute, too, I think. Persona is a little more reminiscent of Deadly Premonition in that the town and the weirdness around it are the real characters while the kids themselves are just kind of... there vs. Persona 4's well defined protagonists and strong narrative drive which are more like a typical JRPG.

Besides that I think Persona 4 is aesthetically and tonally a pretty big departure. The enemies are just silly looking shadows instead of zombies and demons and stuff, and there's very little disturbing imagery or taboo behavior like the occult seeming "persona" game and bargaining with demons like in Persona 1, or Hitler from Innocent Sin, or a bunch of kids appearing to blow their brains out with the evokers in Persona 3. The murders and the Midnight Channel had some  potential, but the presentation really stripped away any sense of forboding pretty quickly I found.

I mean, they're not totally different obviously. It's easy to see how they got from Point A to Point B. But they've really developed a template for what a Persona game is by now, and it's no coincidence that they've dropped the Shin Megami Tensei brand from Persona while SMT still feels like the original Persona did.

ahh i see......all my network passes are there including my purchase. Thanks mate but i still can't play multiplayer yet. Damn!

I didn't know that....nooooooo!!! i bought 3-4 games from EU region and to my surprise, all of them have the passcodes either for additional content or online pass!

That's it i'm gonna trade them later.......man this sucks!