| Mar1217 said: I think you might underestimate how much overlap there's between these two franchises. In term of buzzword, were they to release news on both games at the same time, I'd say Persona would overshadow anything related to SMT. It has no matter to do with exclusivity. Heck, it's like you just forget about the huge uproar we got this spring when the supposed P5 port to Switch was supposed to happen. The general public even on Switch is more interested to hear anything related to Persona than SMT, that's just fact. This is why they shouldn't overlap any SMT related news before P5R at least goes out. |
What? That uproar if anything proves my point .... because Switch fans aren't getting Persona content, and a lot of them either don't have a Playstation 4 or would rather just not play said content on Playstation 4, and the closest thing they're going to get to that authentic experience (outside of a Musou spin-off or a Wii U port frankly no one cares about) is Shin Megami Tensei V. Seriously, I don't know how you looked at that backlash and took it as supporting your argument, because it plays right into mine - that the exclusivity of a big game related to the Persona series would be very desirable to a lot of people who are either not in the Persona ecosystem or who were already prepared to put down a lot of money (probably $50+) just for a port of an old game they've already played on another system.
Just because Persona is a bigger series doesn't mean news about said franchises should never overlap - that's a bad excuse, especially because Royal isn't even a new game, just a re-release with expanded content. The news cycle wouldn't even be the same because SMTV would have news coming out most likely at least 6 months after Royal's release date, meaning it would get a lot of coverage separate from Persona anyways. It's not like Tokyo Game Show is the be all end all, it would have at least a year to continue marketing. If anything, using the boosted status of Persona while simultaneously not marketing it during the announcement of a completely new Persona game (like say Persona 6) would actually be the best time to detail news.
