As some of you may already know, at E3 this year, the long awaited title in the Persona Series, Persona 5 was revealed with no real information or anything really however they did reveal the release of 3 new Persona games that are linked with Characters from Persona 3 and Persona 4. These titles are

 

• Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth (3DS; Japan Release - 5th June (Already out), North America Release - 25th November, Europe Release - 28th November {All dates in 2014})
• Persona 4: Dancing All Night { } (PSVita; Japan Release - Fall TBC, North America Release - 2015 TBC, Europe - TBC)
• Persona 4: Arena Ultimax (PS3, Xbox 360, Arcade; Japan {Arcade} Release - 28th November 2013 Already out, {Both of the following are Xbox 360/PS3} North America Release - 28th August 2014, Europe Release - 30th September)

 

These games (With the exception of Dancing All Night) will star both casts from Persona 3 FES and Persona 4 Golden. Also to add to that there is the upcoming Persona 4: The Golden Animation and Persona 3 The Movie: No. 2, Midsummer Knight's Dream.

 

I think Atlus has just about milked Persona 3 and 4 dry with all these upcoming titles including both of the respective casts. Persona 5 will have a Japanese Release Window to be in Winter of 2014, with a North American Release Window of an unconfirmed 2015 date. The Persona 5 plot will feature as the same as previous titles but with a much darker tone, it is the same genre as a Life Simulation, TBRPG and Dungeon Crawler which Katsura Hashino, the Director of Persona 5 states that players of Persona 3 and Persona 4 "Will feel right at home". It has been confirmed the setting will still be a High School environment with a punch line of "You are Slave. Want Emancipation?" Which in turn could mean that there is a civil struggle with the government and they are restraining people from leaving the country or school. I have many theories on Persona 5 and i may talk about them as further news is Revealed.

 

(The "Logo" of Persona 5 Featuring 5 Chairs with balls and chains shackled to them which also backs up the claim of being restrained)

Edited July 4, 201411 yr by Scottish Skarmory

To me, as long as they keep the story interesting, I don't care how many spin offs they make. Still it'll be nice to have a fresh cast in P5. At least they're working towards it in the mean time versus Square-Enix and the XIII Trilogy.

As much as I love the casts of persona 3 and persona 4, I do have to agree that they have been used to death (4 more than 3 ironically, despite being the newer title) though I'm sure that they'll be put into crossover titles with the persona 5 team. I'm pretty sure we can expect a third fighting game (either with the teams from 4 and 5 or 3 4 and 5), a portable version of persona 5, and another music title if this one does well. I also think there's a pretty good chance the kirijo group will come up in persona 5, though I am unsure to what extent.

That was way before E3 dude

That was way before E3 dude

Oh, right. I didn't even think of it, but all that was confirmed for japan in november, and america in either february or march

I think these are the last games that will feature P3 & P4 because Person 5 is coming this winter for Japan. It'll most likely that Atlus won't use the P3 & P4 characters again until a spin-off for Persona 5 is revealed. I really loved P3 & P4 and I think now we need a break from them.