They should think about it, at least for Yakuza, because between the decline in sales of the series and the PS4 sales not taking off in japan, you have to wonder if Yakuza will still have a future in a few years.

The good news is: A) the sales are good enough in Japan. B) the market for yakuza games will be bigger in the rest of Asia (China, South korea). c) all yakuza games will also appear in europe and usa, in future :) My forecast: I'm sure that many newcomers will play Yakuza Zero and the popularity level in the West will be bigger :)
Yakuza has it all: An exciting great story, varied gameplay with cool RPG features, interesting characters and an incredible atmosphere. And it looks so nice on PS4 out =)

There was drama about this few months ago and they said no,and people needed to tell on stream a month back that it won't be coming and again people are asking.
This is beyond pathetic imo.

While the information is worth a thread, I think this one was made with ill intentions.Especially when the OP comes with delusions thinking that there was some sort of conspiricy about it not being PS4 exclusive.Being multiplat would only benefit the titles, but I digress.

As for the possibility that people thought of comming to other platforms, it was totally possible.Those are not first party titles, and they are exclusive just because Sega and Atlus wants it, not because they "belong to PS".I am especially sad about Persona 5.Even though I am buying it on the PS4, I could see it being a success on the Switch, especially in Japan due to its portability nature.

It's a niche game that is selling less and less. That's the reality of today.

Oh, you're right actually, I completely forgot about that. But only in Japan, a PC port in 1999. So "not one main Persona game released [...] in the last 18 years" ^^.

Nope, I don't think so (and I sure hope not). And "canon" is different from "main game". Persona Q is a spin off using Etrian Odyssey gameplay. Etrian Odyssey is a 3DS game, so Persona Q is a 3DS game. But even the story is a complete spin off, it's kinda an alternative storyline that fits nowhere in the official Persona timeline. It's "Let's bring 2 different casts with time travel in a different dimension so we can do anything we want with them without any impact on the main games story". Even the Persona 4 Arena story is more canon than this one ^^. Well, in fact, the Persona 4 Arena story is canon I think.

(And honestly, Persona Q is just... not good for a Persona story, it's just fan service for the sake of fan service)

Is the rythm game on the Vita canon too? Every Persona game is canon! Except the one when Hitler was the final boss, that had to be censored, lol.

Seriously? "Na na na, I was right, you were wrong! Did you see? You were wrong! You were wrong! You were wrong! I was right, I'm smarter than you!".

Come on. I said that you're right, I forgot, and said how my post should have been written. You can move on, and if something like this makes your day better, then good for you.

The rythm game isn't a main game either, but canon, I'm not sure... I think they talk about what happen in the rythm game during the Persona 4 Arena games (they talk about "what happened the last time Yu visited in vacation" or something like that), so it might be canon. The Persona Q game just seems contradictory with the Persona 4 Arena games where the characters meet each other for the first time (I didn't finish PQ yet so I know they could just forget at the end, but it seems like a lazy way to avoid a retcon). And the time-travel/alternative dimension just seems... too convenient ^^.

Wouldn't mind if Yakuza came to pc but damn some of the fanbase is so whiny, there's more petitions and begging for ports than than to any other platform. If there's so much games not on your system why not get that platform as well, supporting the devs so they can make new games. Valkyria Chronicles selling well on PS3 at full price would have funded a real VC2, not the $5 steam sales.

Well if you truly cared about Yakuza and invested more time to know about its sales than waiting for the weekly Japanese sales report, you'd know that Yakuza is on the rise in Asia and the latest entry has sold more than 500k in 1 week.

Thanks for the link, I didn't know that they officially confirmed it. Like I said in my last comment, I didn't finish Persona Q, so they can make a "Everybody forget everything" at the end for the characters to meet again "for the first time" in the other games. But that's really a lazy way to say "OK guys, let's get crazy and do anything we want with our characters without worrying about the impact on the main games story, we can even time travel and bring back dead characters, we'll just wipe the memory of everyone at the end!". That's bad writing for the sake of fan service. But most of the spin offs have pretty bad writing, so I guess it fits well...