| outlawauron said: This would imply they wouldn't need to moneyhat it at all. Persona has reached unprecendented heights in popularity on the platform. It being on Playstation is a foregone conclusion. Atlus doesn't do simultaneous multiplatform releases for their games. Arc System Works did release the fighting game on 3 platforms, but that was a different development team. I would bet on a Persona 5 - Platinum releasing on Vita/other platforms down the line. |
I think I might have possibly shifted the conversation in the wrong direction by using the term moneyhat. Mostly, I was trying to find out if there was any external involvement in the game by Sony. I am not trying to pass judgement on any of the practices. As I stated earlier, there are actually potential benefits towards Sony's financial involvement in the game.
For comparison, however, Nippon Ichi is a much smaller and less prominent studio, and they have made it perfectly clear regarding Sony's involvement with their games: NIS makes their JRPGs exclusive to Playstation platforms in return for Sony paying for marketing.
I'm honestly just interested in Persona, partially because it's my favorite series, and partially because the months up to its release have been so incredibly weird. First they announce it exclusively to PS3 for 2014 in Japan and 2015 in the US. Then they suddenly announce that there will be a PS4 port, and both games are coming out in 2015. As someone else said, it's completely reasonable to assume that it's just because the PS4 is more popular in the west. But what continues to be curious is that we're almost in the last quarter of 2015, and Atlus is still adamant that both the Japanese and US versions of Persona 5 are arriving in late 2015. I am actually less uncertain about this as other people, as Atlus has a history of announcing the existence of their Persona games mere months before release. But a simultaneous release is still incredibly unusual for an Atlus game.
Mostly, I'm just curious as to figure out the puzzle of Persona 5's rather strange development, and I'm curious as to the possibility of Sony's financial involvement in the game, considering there is precedent for it.
