Per week after Persona 3 Reload’s launch, rumors are floating round that the remake, and several other different Atlus and Sega video games, could also be in improvement for the closely rumored Nintendo Swap 2. However that’s not essentially the most attention-grabbing rumor. The supply additionally claims that long-time followers who’ve by no means been in a position to play the unique Persona or the Persona 2 duology could get to attempt spruced-up variations on Nintendo’s subsequent console.
These rumors come from leaker Midori (@MbKKssTBhz5), who has beforehand leaked particulars about Persona 3 Reload and claims that Sega plans to launch the unique recreation’s playable epilogue, The Reply, as DLC. Midori now states that Sega and Atlus will likely be revealing a number of of their video games on the Swap successor at this yr’s Tokyo Recreation Present. Persona 3 Reload and Metaphor: ReFantazio will supposedly be among them, alongside new Jet Set Radio and Loopy Taxi video games.
Within the midst of all this Swap 2 speak, Midori has additionally claimed that remakes of the unique Persona, the Persona 2 duology, and Persona 4 are within the works at Atlus, however not all will likely be in the identical type as Reload. There’s no info but on doable launch home windows, reveals, or platforms, but when Sega and Atlus are planning to convey the primary two Persona video games to fashionable programs, that’s an enormous win for followers who haven’t been in a position to play these older video games.
Lately, the best solution to play both recreation is on a PlayStation Transportable or Vita by backwards compatibility. Even then, Persona 2: Everlasting Punishment, the second recreation within the Persona 2 story, is barely accessible as a PlayStation traditional outdoors of Japan. The sport was remade for the PSP in its dwelling territory, however that up to date model was by no means launched in different international locations attributable to what Atlus describes as “uncommon circumstances.”
These video games have gotten so tough to play that loads of Persona followers have by no means truly gotten round to them. This hasn’t been helped by Atlus’ hesitance to acknowledge both recreation, which can be as a result of they’re very totally different from what’s thought-about the “fashionable” Persona trilogy. Particularly, they lack the social parts which have grow to be synonymous with the sequence, however nonetheless maintain a particular place in lots of hardcore followers’ hearts.
Proper now, the Swap 2 is only a sequence of rumors from totally different sources, however all indicators level to a 2024 launch.