Brace yourselves: Persona 5 is now launching on April 4, 2017.
I know, I know. It stings. But Persona 5 set the gold standard for Atlus with its launch in Japan, and we wanted to put the utmost care into ensuring it winds up the best when it launches in the west. And — and this is a very special “and” — we have some exceedingly good news for you in light of this delay:
Persona 5 will have dual audio. For PS4 and PS3.
We’re including it as DLC for logistical reasons, but it will be free, for forever. People have been asking for this since P5 was announced, and through herculean effort from just about every division of Atlus, we managed to arrange this. This was something we especially wanted to do for the Atlus Faithful, the ones who still appreciate our English dubs and respect all the effort we put into localizing. You all are the reason we get to do the jobs we do, so we’ve been fighting for this for a long while, and we are glad we can make this happen for all of those who support us and love our games.
Oh, but I’m not done there.
For those of you who are planning to attend PlayStation Experience in Anaheim this year, Atlus will be there. Along with a playable demo of Persona 5. If you’re going to be at PS Experience, we hope to see you there! Oh, and not that you needed any more reason to visit our booth, but there’s also going to be a Persona 5 collector’s card as well!
More? Okay.
Persona 5’s band of heroes are called the Phantom Thieves. They specialize at stealing stuff — they stole the first P5 gameplay and delivered it to us at E3, they even stole the freakin’ Tokyo Tower. Their most recent heist? They liberated a PS4 theme of Ryuji Sakamoto, and they’ve put it up on PlayStation Network right now. For free. Fortunately, the Atlus security is top-notch, and we’ll be removing it from PlayStation Network in 24 hours, but until then, we’re powerless to stop those who want to download it!
I think that’s about everyth- oh wait!
I just remembered, we’ve got another update for you. Those of you who’ve pre-ordered the “Take Your Heart” premium edition of Persona 5 may recall the placeholder art the last time we showed it off. Well, we’ve got an update to that too! The soundtrack CD now features Justine and Caroline, the twin wardens of the Velvet Room. The artbook and SteelBook are updated as well, and you can even see the final art of the box it all ships in. Check it out here.
Phew! Ok, so if you need a minute to process all that, you can check out the first English gameplay of Persona 5 as we livestream it right now on Twitch!
You know, if you really want to give us something as an apology for the delay, why not take the P3 and P4 costumes that were part of the CE in Japan and include them in the Take Your Heart Edition for us too? :) Or maybe the 4 disc soundtrack with music from past games? That would be really good.
From a 90 day count down to a 146 day count down. Atlus I love you too much. Ill still keep waiting.
I plan to only play this in English, but I appreciate that you’re reaching out to the sub fans. Plus, I like that this will allow more lines to be voiced in English. Not to mention, there’s too many games coming out in January and February, so moving this to April is a smart move.
Thanks, Atlus. And while I’m here, any chance of Persona 4 Golden going on PS4? Or even Persona 3 FES as a PS2 classic on PS4?
P4 Golden on PS4 please.
honestly i dont really care about dual audio, can you just release the english version first then put out the update
I am disappointed, but I still am really looking forward to P5.
Atlus, I don’t mind the delay. SMT games and the Persona titles never disappoint. I’d come to the event if I wasn’t a broke college student in the middle of a post-grad job hunt during the holidays of an election year that switched parties across all three government branches leading to a lack of hiring.
I’ll be waiting patiently and will even get the collector’s edition if I can afford it by then.
Well this is a bummer. Never have used the dual audio function yet.
Still, my heart is broken. I was so waiting for Valentines day to play this. Now I wait longer, I suppose, nothing new I wanted except for this. I guess I should thank you for the back log clearing assistance.
Oh, so you are reporting it once more, even though the game is ALREADY gold since released in “go learn real alphabet” Japan ?
Okay. For what reason, I’m not even sure since you are not even clear in what is written here (don’t give a damn about “go learn english” japanese audio). I can’t believe that extracting a stupid voice track from an existing, released game takes two monthes, and since it’s a free DLC (MAKE IT PAY DAMMIT, DON’T BE STUPID, Take them weeaboos money !), it’s mostly not the main reason of the delay.
So, as said previously by one of my fellow disappointed customers, I assume that you are nowhere near having the translation completed. Really…
Well, since I could die a trigintillion times before release, you’ll excuse me if I cancel my order and buy the game only when it will be released with expansion as P5 The Platinum or something…
Well there was no doubt that i was going to buy this anyway, this news just bumped me up from a standard purchase to a take your heart edition just so i can support atlus
Okay, but srsly. Will we ever see it on the Vita? ;n; I’m too poor for a ps4
I’m really sorry, but I really doubt it. I love my Vita too, but you may want to start expecting less from it.