Persona 5 (PS3 exclusive) & Persona Q (3DS exclusive) are finally here.

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small44 said:

Fans like persona because it is a rpg,making a spin off of persona with a diferent,every spin off sold less then main game in the serie,p4g sold impressively well for a remake in a small install base this sales should be anougth the Altus to make a main persona for psvita to thanks their fans,making always  port and remake in a console for me means they don't treat their fans well.

I don't see either Persona dancing generate more revenues then  amaking persona 5 multiplatform for ps3 and psv or making a rpg spin off,only time will tell us if iwhat i said is true or not.

Yes, Persona 5 would sell more than P4D on the Vita, that's for sure. However, releasing it on the Vita alongside the PS3 Version would be a bad idea, and they know that. I don't know of one person owning a Vita who doesn't own a PS3 AND is a Fan of the Persona series. Offering both versions at the same time would cut into each others sales. But since the fanbase is on Vita as well, they'll probably release an updated version of P5 at a later date, which would lead many people to buy the game twice, thus maximizing the revenue of the game. I'm almost 100% percent certain that, if the Vita doesn't die before (which I wouldn't assume seeing that it performs decently (for its standards) in Japan and Europe), P5 will be released on it at some point.

All that the Vita is going to get from the Persona series will be Ports/Remakes and spinoffs. It's not doing good enough for more, and again, a mainline game has never appeared on a handheld first or at the same time as the console version. They just want to give their Vita fanbase (which is overlapping with the PS3 one for quite a big chunk, I'd assume) some game to play, and a game like P4D is easier to make than a full RPG game (especially if the resources for the dancing game are already there, just as with PQ on the 3DS). They would have to base the game off of P4G or do it from scratch, and that would mean too much work or basically making it a mainline game.

And yeah, we'll see how P4D will do. It will probably be worse than what an RPG spin off might have done (we'll probably never be able to know that for sure), but it will not cost as much to make as well. In the end, the money Sega makes off of the game may be higher than it would have been with an RPG spinoff, and that's what counts to them.