2017-04-12 Nintendo Direct minmin horde day

[Darwinianevolution]

twintail said:

Darwinianevolution said:

Don't worry, we all suffer from sleep depravation here. ;)

But Persona 5 on the Switch makes too much sense. If it were just a Sony thing, wouldn't it had gone to the Vita? There is a SMT audience on Nintendo devices, and Persona is the more popular and accessible spinoff, so it would make sense to think it would sell well. If it doesn't come to the console, there is something we aren't seeing here.

Im not really seeing the connection between your points. It didnt come to Vita because clearly it was designed for much stronger hardware. And Portable Persona doesnt use release until a few ears after anyhow (at least traditionally). 

The SMT and Persona audiences are not necessarily the same since both IPs focus on very different things. I am sure a Siwtch port is underway, but if it didnt come there would be nothing unexpected about it. After all, the Wii never got a Persona, nor did the DS or WiiU (the former 2 were amazing sales wise). 3DS didnt ever get a mainline Persona, just a spinoff in the spirit of the Nintendo focussed IP EQ.

Persona 5 was going to be a PS3 only game until Sony convinced Atlus to bring it over to the PS4 too. If there's a PS3 version, you can adapt it to the Vita. And during the Wii-WiiU and DS-3DS era, Sony had handhelds to release Persona games on. Now, the Switch is the only modern dedicated handheld on the market, with the Vita still going around but without any option of recovery nor succession. Plus, if the Switch is as easy to port and develop for as Nintendo and indies claim, there would be no finantial reason to not try it.