Persona 5 Save Data Won't Work With Persona 5: The Royal

I’m hoping this will end up being a close-to-launch PS5 title.
I’d love to get a real meaty launch title to get my teeth into.

Not really too surprised. I am looking forward to replaying from the beginning regardless.

I wouldnt put too much faith in that bonus if you have save data being anything good. Usually its a costume or an item you will never use.

Disappointing, but im sure ill end up double dipping 😬 cant wait to tell my wife she hs to put up with the battle music again though...

@Rob_230 "You never see it comiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing..."

Not a problem for me since I haven’t started persona 5 yet, my copy is still in pristine condition

@Athrum 😂😂

Oh well I guess I won't bother with the new game plus for now and just wait for this to come out instead

Seems about right to me. I wouldn't have expected it to transfer if it's similar to 4 golden. The entire new character story wouldn't work depending on where your imported save is.

Not surprising, but slightly disappointing. I would have loved to transfer things like social stats, so that I could spend more time with confidants instead of increasing stats.

No. Just no. My social stats need to maxed out for me to start this against total bull crap and something to lose customers over. It obviously looks for save data and could easily transfer the social stats. No Atlus, I may not buy this if you don’t respect my time enough for that. I need to focus on people and see everything in this play through. Not okay, not even close. Absolute disgrace. If that bonus isn’t maxes social stats I’m out.

I probably won't be playing this for a while. It'd be different if it was on a portable system, or if it was a direct sequel, but, as much as I enjoyed my time with P5, I'm not excited about repurchasing the same game with some improvements on the same platform. I understand they've done this before (P3 --> P3FES), but I had the benefit of coming to the series late enough in that case to already be able to purchase the revised version of the game.

I REALLY wish Sony still had a powerful portable line for games like this to release on.

Yeah, I wasn't expecting it to, honestly. Starting from square one in a Persona game isn't easy, but I'll deal.

@Jaz007 i don't think you respect your own time if you were planning to replay a 100+ hour game just for a new character, a new social link and a couple new areas/environments/bosses. people are making this out to be like a brand new game when really it is FAR from that. persona fans have gone mad lol. for one, atlus should allow those with the base game to upgrade via DLC and not force people to repurchase at FULL PRICE nonetheless.

@Porco It’s the best game I’ve ever played. I love Persona 5 and haven’t seen all the regular game has to offer. I’ve got the chance play it again as it deserves it and see everything this time while having the game expanded so there’s new things to see this time. I wanted to replay with new game plus anyway, and this would have been the perfect way to do that. I can’t plan on playing it a third time time is the issue.

@Porco I guess you whats in the game already. 😁

And on the shop's shelf it stays...
Glorified DLC without save file compatibility sold as a new game And people complain about Square Enix...
Unsellable

I hope the Royale edition allows more freedom. I yelled at the screen more than a few times when Morgana forced me to sleep early.

Was going to buy it now not going to buy it just because of that

I am severely disappointed with this decision. You expect people to pay a full price tag on an upgraded version of a re-released game? Based on Atlus's history, I should've known better than to play Persona 5 when it came out, as they always re-release their hits 3-5 years later, as this is now 3 Persona titles in a row to get that treatment. What would it hurt to have this feature? Nothing.
This will cost Atlus more money and time then whatever justifiable reason they had for omitting it.