| the_dengle said: It's not exactly a port, it had new content. I can see that the audience is growing (perhaps even pretty rapidly). But it seems to me that this series has a dedicated fanbase who buys all of the games, not a large fanbase who buys every other game -- in other words, the sales of P4 and of P4G were almost entirely from the same people. The total number of players of P4 + P4G isn't even close to the combined sales of the two. So then the question is, will this dedicated fanbase buy P5 on both PS3 and on PS4? I don't see any reason to, unless each has exclusive content not in the other version. So rather than both versions getting the full sales, the total sales will be split between the two. It's just a thought. It's also possible with Sega & Atlus pushing the series so hard recently that the franchise will experience massive growth over P4G, leading to over a million sales for P5 on at least one of its platforms. |
It's an enhanced port. The "extra content" is similar to that of Final Fantasy 4 Advance.
You can't really argue that the people own the game on the Vita have or haven't played the PS2 version, because on one hand you could argue that the Vita has no games and it's consistently listed as one of the best games on the Vita, while on the other hand you could argue that the PSP being an RPG heavy console happened to get those RPG fans who have already played it to purchase the Vita and the same, no games, so they purchased Persona 4 since it's a good game.
Persona 5 being on the PS4 as well as the PS3 gives it the chance to get the most sales of any Persona game since the series became popular. It's still niche, but it won't be overlooked as easily as Persona 3 and Persona 4 were being released on previous gen hardware up to two years after all the last gen consoles were released. So this is the first time we'll see how much of a fanbase the series actually has.
