Nintendo does like to do the "Available now" release date

If it's going to happen, it's bound to be next year. I'm guessing it'll be the 2nd half of the year. Maybe in late summer or fall perhaps?

The announcement is coming tomorrow at 4pm EST. I heard it from a guy that heard it from a guy who made it up.

Really? You think Cloud got in because of theatrhythm and Final Fantasy Explorers? Are you really going to go that way just to avoid admiting he and Final Fantasy being a huge gaming icon and FF being borned and having half of its mainline games on Nintendo were the actual reasons for it? Ok, keep it up dude...

And for you and everyone else throwing the Persona Q argument: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. A niche JRPG that has never had any links with Nintendo suddenly has a character in Smash Bros. because of a spin off most people (even Persona fans) didn't even remember it existed? Yeah, that's totally it. You solved the case, Columbo...

Well, in the official announcement teaser they are advertising it with "JOKER from Persona 5!" instead of "JOKER from Persona Q2!" or "JOKER from the Persona series!", so the chances aren't too bad that Persona 5 will get ported (and perhaps even "goldened") to Switch.

I'd probably double dip on "Persona 5 Golden", it seems to be a good fit for the system which wouldn't need much downgrades. And I love Persona games on the go, I already have Persona 2 - 4 on my Vita.

"Cloud wasn't really on a Nintendo console" Are you sure? Chain of Memories, Recoded, Theatrhythm FF, Theatrhythm FF Curtain Call, FF Explorer

Doesn't change the fact they use that to make excuse about putting Cloud and Joker into Super Smash. It also follow Smash rule: appear at least one time on Nintendo platforms whether that game is big or niche. Also, not just Final Fantasy Explorers,  Theatrhythm FF or Theatrhythm FF Curtain Call, he was on Chain of Memories and Recoded too. Not sure if P5 come to Switch or not, but also be careful what you wish for, perhaps SMTV will come to ps4 in exchange and with Sony censorship policy about nudity/sexual scenes in JP games, no doubt the Switch ver will be the same as ps4 ver.

Umm... no. They didn't use that excuse at all for Cloud or Joker. People on the internet did. And it's a dumb excuse.

Take any character of Smash Ultimate. Any. And tell me with a straight face that it doesn't belong to a Nintendo franchise, nor is a gaming icon or doesn't belong to an incredibly popular series. I dare you.

Joker is literally the only one that doesn't fit the roster. Unless Persona 5 comes to the Switch that is.

And please... Cloud existance in all those 5 games is so secondary I'm even surprise you're throwing this at me. Definetley, Cloud is not in Smash because the importance of FF, the history with Nintendl and him being the face of the franchise. No, those are nonesense. They put him in because of two rhythm games where he displays not a single sign of personality, a skin in a wannabe portable MMO and two brief appearances in KH portable spin offs, one of which is the worst game in the series. Yeah, that's why he's in.

About SMT V on PS4/5... I don't care.

I don't get why some are mentioning censorship happening on the Switch version. I also don't get why some people don't believe there will be a Switch version. Portable Persona has always outsold regular ones, do you think Atlus won't take their shot again?

Persona 5 stays a PS exclusive like all persona main titles
A Persona Q2 character is the only persona the nintendo switch gets