EDIT!!!! – You can purchase Persona 4 in the states now.
Believe it or not, Persona 4 is on it’s way to being released in Japan. Early indications are that it is to hit japan in early 2008 for the Playstation 2.
A Bloomberg Japan report released these details on Persona 4.
Part of the reason this is coming out so soon is because of how well Persona 3 was received. Unfortunately, Persona 3 FES didn’t make it over to the states, but you’d have to think Persona 4 will in time.
This just makes me think of the state of RPG’s in regards to them still being released on the PS2. Developers clearly don’t have the trust yet in the next gen systems to sell their games, either because there aren’t enough people with the system or it costs too much to produce the games. This is generally the case with RPG’s though if you look back to the early stages of SNES, and especially PS1 and PS2 where RPG’s were few and far between. I think the simple answer to this is that RPG’s (at least not named Final Fantasy) don’t try to blow the roof off as far as graphics and thus they hang around at the end like what is now going on with the PS2.
In this particular case with Persona 4 it’s not really a question, when you consider how many people still use PS2’s compared to the amount of PS3 users / owners.
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um, i believe Persona 3 FES is coming out in the states, according to IGN at leaast, April 22 =]]
hehe you’re right…Well I made a post for P3 FES a few days ago I think.
P3 FES is coming out in April, as kicks confirmed. And I think P4 is released already. There is also talk of it being released in the US sometime in July, since P3 was a success here. (Well, a success compared to most Atlus series released here.) I think I know the motives behind putting P4 on the PS2. Firstly, Japan’s gaming industry is a little wary of the Xbox 360, and sales aren’t doing well there. They might have been keeping the US market in mind, since the PS3 hasn’t gained many fans over here in the states. Personally, I don’t mind; I don’t have a PS3 or a 360, but I do have a PS2. I would love to be able to play the new Persona, which I’ve heard will have some similarities to P3, only now it will be set in the Japanese countryside. I really do hope it comes out in the US; they’ll have at least one girl who’s gonna buy it. ;)
Well I think P4 is coming out July 10th 2008 in Asia. Surely it will come here for the PS2…probably sometime in the late fall / winter of 08 / 09.
I am currently playing persona 3 FES, and it is awesome, I can’t wait for the fourth one to come out on ps2 so count me in folks!
hehe me too Chermayn! I’m in the middle of November already I have been playing this game all day. Hopefully soon I’ll have my strategy guide done with all the requests, Tartarus bosses, etc.
Personally, I think P3:FES is a really good game and one of the best I’ve played in a long time and trust me, it has to be a good game, if it was able to bring me out of my video game-like comatose state. Atlus has made some good games (Riviera as an example) and they’ve made some bad games (Yggdra Union), but they have redeemed themselves by releasing this game. I do believe that P4 will join my collection of PS2 games.
Yea well i have never played a persona game but i am an advit rpg kind of guy and i have seen a few screen shots of persona 4 and i cant wait to give it a try it is released tomarrow 12-9-08 and i have a copy reserved so i cant wait to give it a try so lets get some info rolling around
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