But piracy also has benefits, like making people play more, and play games they wouldn't have otherwise bought, thus having a marketing effect. Pirates are also a part of the word of mouth.

Which is why the games on console sell more? Please. The word of mouth works no matter what. Demon's Souls became an hit in the West stil being available only in Asia. Word of mouth has all to do with the games being good. Like with Rocket League. Plenty of games are free on PS+, but only Rocket League became a very popular game. Piracy is bad for developers, especially if a game is also for consoles. People with both a decent PC and in this case a PS4 (or PS3) could decide to play it for free instead of buying it. Indeed I am really curious to see what will happen with Tomb Raider. 

I more want to know if there will be an enhanced (contentwise) handheld release either on Vita or NX.

Oh that I can tell you: No.

Hahah, has happened for every other game in the franchise.

I'm not doubting that there'll be an enhanced version, more your suggested platforms, like Ka-Pi said it took several years for P3 and P4 to come to handhelds, if we're expecting a similarly long wait then I can't imagine it being for Vita as I don't think they'll still make Vita games at that point. And NX seems unlikely as no mainline Persona game has come to a Nintendo system before.

I'd rather guess that there will be an enhanced version on PS4 only in a year or two, kinda like with P3 and P3:FES.

I bet it would be a different story if they asked sega instead. They are probably waiting to see how it performs before ordering the port.

Doubt it. Sega is extremely lazy/frightened at doing anything themselves that isn't tied to Sonic. They are one of the worst if not worst offenders at localizing games. Plus if anything this would get a port to a Nintendo console long before PC.

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.