Rumor: Persona 6 to Launch Day One on Xbox - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 September 2023 / 8,055 Views
There is a new rumor from XboxEra co-founder Nick Baker, who is a known leaker, is claiming Persona 6 won't be a PlayStation exclusive and will launch day one on Xbox consoles. This is in contract with previous reports claiming the game would be a PlayStation exclusive at launch.
Baker claimed Sony was trying to "lock up" Persona 6 as a PlayStation exclusive, however, he says trusted sources have told him the game would launch on Xbox consoles day one. He did add this should be treated as a rumor.
He added he hasn't heard anything about Persona 6 coming to Xbox Game Pass.
"They didn't say Game Pass; they just said Xbox," said Baker talking about his sources. "Nothing about Game Pass. A brand new Persona 6, that would, my god, that would cost a pretty penny to get Persona 6 on Game Pass."
ATLUS earlier this year announced Persona 3 Reload with an early 2024 release window and Persona 5 Tactica with a November 17 release date.
Persona 3 Reload will launch for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC via Steam and Microsoft Store, and Xbox Game Pass in early 2024.
Persona 5 Tactica will launch for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC via Steam and Microsoft Store, and Xbox Game Pass on November 17.
Thanks, DualShockers.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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The more who get to enjoy it, the better.
As always, shoutout to the member who called P5 "that niche shit". Now it's headline Xbox newsworthy.
Cool, The more the merrier.
I mean they could do with announcing the game first, why do some of the biggest series take so long to get a sequel?
In Atlus's case it's because they think that they are a dairy , first you have the numbered games then later you get a new version like P3 FES - P4 Golden - P5 Royal then there the spinoffs, with dancing games like P4 dancing all night etc , P4 Arena followed by P4 Arena ultimax for those who like fighting games then P5 Strikers for those who like there Musou games and Persona Q games that use the Etrian Odyssey formula and we have a new Persona strategy game coming out, feel free to list games I have missed , till then as the Atlus dairy co-op likes to say, until either the milking machine breaks down or our games get mastitis someone's got to milk them cows.
I'm not too involved with the Sony v Microsoft "console war". How is this fair-play to what Sony has done? I don't recall Sony having stolen renown gaming IP and claiming it as their own?? At least...nothing of the magnitude of Persona nor Call of Duty.
I would be surprised if it didn't at this point If it doesn't come to gamepass, will be interesting to see how well it sells. Hopefully Xbox players are hooked on the series and support it.
Hopefully. Atlus does seem to have some confidence that it will sell (if the rumor is true) as Metaphor will also be releasing on Xbox at launch, but not Game Pass.
Sega in general I think did the best job of utilizing Game Pass to their advantage. Released all their games and franchises on Game Pass, built up a Sega/Atlus audience on Xbox through Game Pass to the point they can release their new titles on Xbox without needing them to be on Game Pass.
There's certainly exceptions like a new Total War releases on PC Game Pass and new Football Manager, but everything else does seem to be releasing multiplat now.
Some individuals certainly will but there's no guarantee the game will release in a timely manner onto GamePass.
Overall I don't see anything different than with gamers just waiting for a deal on Steam or other stores. Some do for sure, but most still want to experience the game they're hyped about on day 1 so the overall effects on sales are mild at best.
And have we see any of the new games that launched after the gamepass effect selling well on Xbox?
Microsoft really wants to compete this gen don't they.
Purchased 2 massive Publishers and a ton independent noteworthy studios. (They probably aren't done yet)
Getting Japanese games to release on xbox, day 1 games into sub service, and a 299$ console.
Its been easy going for Sony the entire last gen and they've done phenomenal.
They really can't do exclusive deals anymore as Microsoft can and would easily out bid them.
Would love to see how they react when they are being challenged and pushed into a corner by a trillion dollar corporation.
Its going to be an interesting battle to watch this gen.
Sony is doing even better this gen and MS worse. So yes...
"They really can't do exclusive deals anymore as Microsoft can and would easily out bid them."
.....Sony won exclusives against MS for FFXVI, so yes Sony still can do deals. And its not like any deal Sony will try to win, MS will always be there to outbid Sony to prevent Sony from getting any 3rd party exclusive.
Sony was already pushed into a corner when they lost a lot of exclusives gen 7 when 360 was blowing up. It got Sony to beef up their 1st party games and it did wonders. I hope Sony will step up their FPS games. But when MS gets pushed into a corner (by companies worth way less) they just end up buying the entire lot, no effort or grind.
I'd say its over this gen for MS as they're about half way through this gen and they hardly focused on Xbox at all, they just wanted to buy Activision and just kept pushing GP. I'm sure MS will support the Series X/S still but the real battle to watch is next gen as I'm sure MS is going to spend the remainder of this gen strategizing what to do with their newly acquired games and save their big guns for then.
If Persona 6 exclusive is true then this is a good win for MS as they will definitely help keep some attention on them this gen.
The more platforms the better.
i have gamepass but i still purchased 3-5 they are worth owning
Great news, the more sales the best
Basically you can't fault Sony for any exclusive, because Microsoft has the means to always outbid them if they want to.
Yeah, but when?
So on PC day one too I hope. But for now all eyes on P3 Reload.
His sources confirmed the game is multiplatform but he himself say to threat as rumor, sure.
No morgana, no buy
Big cheque from MS.
You think Persona was exclusive to PS for so long out of the goodness of Atlus's heart or something? Because I also doubt SMT V was exclusive on Switch out of the goodness of Atlus's heart either.
More like Sony's check must not have been big enough to make it exclusive
The series should have never been exclusive in the first place.
It was a niche jrpg whose sales were counted in the K's it started to pick up steam with P3 and P4 both selling in the hundreds of thousands eventually leading to P4 Golden on the Vita becoming first persona to break the million barrier, that success along with the spinoff P4 games helped increase its PS audience that then saw P5 become a top selling jrpg .
Wonder if Xbox sales outweighs PlayStation money and marketing. Oh well time will tell. Switch 2 sales would definitely outweigh that though.
dude what did you do? Every time I see a comment from you, it's followed up with a brigade of downvotes lmao. I mean...you're mostly posting bad takes. But it still comes off a bit odd.
