Persona 5's delay is a real disappointment, but the title's TGS 2015 trailer proved that it's going to be exceptional whenever it arrives. And speaking as part of a video interview translated by Siliconera, director Katsura Hashino has confirmed that production is running smoothly, so there's no need to worry about it taking much longer than Summer 2016 to arrive.
In fact, according to the honcho, all of the "parts" of the game have been assembled, which we assume means that all of the environments and assets are in place. Atlus is taking extra time to tune the gameplay, then, while it also wants to fill the release with more content than its predecessors. Consequentially, it's aiming to build the biggest entry yet in terms of play time.
Hashino also touched briefly upon the trailer, which supposedly centred on the concept of "stealing hearts". Apparently this will be a big focus of the story, which sounds like a really interesting plot beat – especially given the robbery motif. We've embedded the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 exclusive's video below, purely because it's worth watching again.
Are you happy to wait the extra months for this to get polished to perfection? Share some superlatives in the comments section below.
[source youtube.com, via siliconera.com]
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"Consequentially, it's aiming to build the biggest entry yet in terms of play time."
Daunting, seeing as I've easily clocked 80-90 hours in P4G and still have a loooooong way to go until I get the platinum!
@SteveButler2210 haha LOL same here ^^ i just got a Vita a few weeks ago and still havent beaten P4G due to its awesomness - I admit Im at the end rn, Im goin for the true ending
@topic: I can live with the delay - as long as it is not coming out close to FF15 next year
and Im pretty damn sure that ATLUS will deliver
After P3 I had doubts they could top it and then P4 just blew me away - so my high hopes for P5 are without any doubts and fears - Persona5 will DEFINITELY be stellar
After the initial shock yesterday I realized I'm way too busy to be sad. The delay is maybe for the better actually; between TW3 DLC, Destiny which is all of a sudden awesome, Fallout, PES, MGS and Xenoblade Chronicles I don't have time for anything else anyway. Just bring Persona 5 in June so I've got all summer to play it, because this looks like a game you want to invest some serious time in!
More than happy to wait a few more months if it means the game is even better on release. I wonder if it will be as great as Persona 4.
After seeing the latest trailer, summer 2016 is definitely worth the wait. Been trying to find a trailer with English subs, though.
My favorite evokers were still the handguns in P3FES but some of the masks in P5 especially Ryuji's and the other guy with the fox mask looked pretty cool as well.
I can wait. Its only the number one game on my hype list.
I am fine with this.I will have Xenoblade X on December and by Summer 16 I may finally get a PS4.
I'm happy to wait. I'll admit, as a fan of the series and other games like SMT and DDS, I do find it quite hard to imagine them needing all that much more time. It's not a vast open world with a physics engine, loads of AI running at once, and so on. Persona has always been a pretty simple dungeon crawler where you move through basic areas fighting a relatively small amount of enemies. Then you move through a very modest selection of town and school areas without much to do in them and prompt some brief VN sections. It really is a low maintenance set-up.
I feel like this is more of a businesses decision, perhaps to release Persona 5 a couple of months after the Persona 3 and 4 port for PS4 I've heard they're working on. Maybe to time it with a currently in-production anime series or OVA. Who knows. Whatever the reason, I don't mind the wait. This is a series that only released twice on PS2 and never on PS3. There are so many games coming out over the coming months, real timesinks like Fallout 4 and Tales of Zestiria, that it's actually a good thing.
I can wait, but Im sad as I wait. I hope Bethesda doesn't delay Fallout 4, I want to at least get that.
@Matroska by the looks of things there are a ton of places to wander around in your free time. Plus the enemy models are being made from scratch and are actually the demon models as opposed to the shadows we are used to fighting in the last few Persona games. In fact I'd go so far as to say it's quite possible negotiation will be put in to get more personas as opposed to the usual tarot card system.
@Matroska I agree, I really feel like this delay is really to set it up to dominate the summer months of next year. Releasing in winter is pretty pointless for smaller games as they have to battle it out with everything else for a spot in someone's home. I'm not mad about the delay, I'll always support delays if it means a better game at the end. But what does make me mad is the way Atlus kept insisting that it would release this year. It's not like they didn't know the game wouldn't be ready for this year but I suppose there could have been a disconnect between marketing and development or something like that. I would have preferred them just being honest earlier on rather than giving me a bait and switch. But it's whatever I suppose, Disgaea 5 and Xenoblade will be sucking up plenty of time by themselves.
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