Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4, 97 at Metacritic!PS2 IS NOT DEAD!

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BTFeather55 said:

"Atlus seems to like the Wii. Plus, by keeping the series on PS2 this long they've made it pretty clear that they're not fans of HD development costs..."

Atlus also has a deal with Microsoft to put their games on the 360, and I would say MS wants more than two very poor strategy rpgs out of it. Also, when they see these review scores, they will decide that like FFXIII and SO4 P5 is a game they should add to their jrpg collection and with a review score of 97 for the game -- whipping any jrpg in their lineup -- they'll be even more inclined to pay the price to get P5.

Also, Nintendo doesn't like to have such mature games on their systems and in a way the gameplay in the Persona games competes with that of their first party Pokemon titles, so they would be less inclined to want to release such a third party game on the Wii.

Finally, it could be that Atlus loves the Playstation brand explaining why they've had two top Persona games on the PS2 so late in its lifetime, and that they've just been waiting for the right time to announce P5 for the PS3. I would expect to see P5 on the PS3 before I would expect to see it on the Wii as well as Atlus would want to release the best possible version of the series on a next gen console instead of having a next gen game on a console that is decidedly last gen. They could do pretty much the same thing by having P5 on the PS2 once again and save a few dollars in development costs.

I Definitely agree with your point on wii. I just can't see Atlus getting away with a game where the characters shoot themselves or eat each other on wii. As for 360, I think Atlus has to be real mindful of where they put their games on more than say S-E because tons of people buy FFs because of HYPE and media spotlight regardless of whether they're even JRPG fans or were purchasers of previous FF games. Most people have a love or hate relationship with each FF iteration so I doubt it's the same people buying them.

In Atlus case, it's only hardcore fans that tend to even know if these games exist and understand how long they'll be out on the market before selling for god-forsaken prices. They've release brand new IPs on the 360 but I think they'll have to think twice before transferring the megaten series over there primarily because of Japan and their "hardcore" fanbase. It's hard to predict which system these people have gotten this time around. I have played all the megaten games released on ps2. In my case, ps3 was the obvious choice because I needed BC for games like P4 that were looming and I like focusing on only ONE system but I understand that I'm 1 in a million.

In conclusion, I think they are most likely to release P5 on ps2 if it comes out before 2010. If it releases after 2010, I think it'll most likely be ps3 because development costs won't be a serious issue anymore and this series style doesn't need HD graphics but I've been wrong before. I think ps3 because the nature of the content axes out the wii and Japan axes out the 360 but M$ might fund them so we'll see.