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[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Tagging this post as rumor, but do keep in mind that Midori's track record with SEGA & Atlus leaks has been spotless so far.



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[Thief1987]

Milking your best franchises to death in a few years, what a great strategy

 

[Woopah]

Mostly makes sense, but weird that they don't include Megami Tensei more broadly.

Also is Total War not a big franchise for them? (despite recent misteps).

 

[Zheph]

I feel that last tweet, I hope SMT 5:V will do good numbers but it won't

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

Mostly makes sense, but weird that they don't include Megami Tensei more broadly.

Also is Total War not a big franchise for them? (despite recent misteps).

Didn't they lay off some CA stuff and let go of Relic? So I guess not.

 

[Fart Knight]

I feel that last tweet, I hope SMT 5:V will do good numbers but it won't

Im gonna buy it.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

I feel that last tweet, I hope SMT 5:V will do good numbers but it won't

Whoops, forgot to add this one as well to the OP.

 

[Zheph]

Im gonna buy it.

 

[SmokedMeat]

Oh cool! I was hoping that the only two franchises Sega bothers with would be made annually.

 

[Griffon]

 

[Fabieter]

I feel that last tweet, I hope SMT 5:V will do good numbers but it won't

Always preferred persona. Will the new title rather be my cup of tea?

Anyway I feel like they mostly there already with these franchises.

Cool with yakuza but I won't manage to beat one persona per year.

 

[Unknown?]

Come on Sonic Adventure remake collection!

 

[Soodanim]

Unless you're adding new teams to handle the increased workload, the idea that the quality won't change can only mean one of two things:
1. The teams weren't working hard before
2. It's a lie

 

[Punished Miku]

Annual just means I wait until it's $10 like Ubisoft stuff. Fine with me if that's what you want to do.

 

[Fabieter]

Annual just means I wait until it's $10 like Ubisoft stuff. Fine with me if that's what you want to do.

Like a dragon is already annually. Do you wait for that to his 10 bucks

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

Hope they won't oversaturate the market with these games.

 

[Punished Miku]

Like a dragon is already annually. Do you wait for that to his 10 bucks

Of course. Way too many of them to play. I think I got 1-6 for less than $10 each. Got both Judgment games for $15 each. I still haven't come even close to catching up. I got the RPG one for maybe $15.

 

[FewRope]

Persona 1 and 2 remakes baby

 

[DaGwaphics]

Milking your best franchises to death in a few years, what a great strategy

This. But the sad part is it must work well enough or these companies wouldn't keep doing it.

In enthusiast communities it has diminished games like AC and CoD. The general market must just love the familiar though.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

Expect a drop in quality, too. That's Ubisoft 2.0. Very disappointing.

 

[Fabieter]

Expect a drop in quality, too. That's Ubisoft 2.0. Very disappointing.

I won't it just means spin offs for a few years until the next mainline title is ready. Like a dragon is already annually. And the last mainline title was really really good.

 

[Zheph]

Always preferred persona. Will the new title rather be my cup of tea?

Anyway I feel like they mostly there already with these franchises.

Cool with yakuza but I won't manage to beat one persona per year.

Its gonna be good dude, its more streamlined than persona but you will have all the demons (personas) and the super dynamic battle system that you already know. No social links, no around the clock gameplay but different paths/endings. Amazing atmosphere.
I strongly recommend it if you like jrpg.

 

[gothmog]

I'm already tired of all those franchises.

 

[RoboFu]

Not what I want from sega.

 

[Flabagast]

How awful

 

[adamsapple]

Ehhhhhhhh .... if they mean *ONE* of those every year, sure.

But don't shoehorn one of each every year, that'll dilute the brands.

 

[Metnut]

Not exactly on topic, but given the solid but not great sales of FF7 Rebirth but the very smooth production cycle for the game, I wonder if something like this might be the future of Final Fantasy.

Use the assets/engine from FF7R to vastly shorten and cheapen the development cycle. FF16 and Rebirth released basically in the same 12 month period and they sold probably 6M combined at $70 (or higher each). There’s still a large audience willing to pay for these games. Square needs to find a way to make more of them at a reasonable cost.

 

[stn]

Heh, Yakuza went from not being popular to now about to become an annual title. As much as I love it, I also hope that doesn't come with a drop in quality, as has happened with sports games and other annual releases.

 

[Mister Wolf]

SMT V: Vengeance is gonna sell a lot more than SEGA expects.

 

[diffusionx]

Call of Duty has been run this way for a decade and the last three games have been dog shit.

 

[Hudo]

Dunno if I am a fan of that strategy. I'd rather give devs all the time they need.*

How about making a new Phantasy Star single-player RPG, Sega?

*Doesn't mean they should take 10 years to make a game, that's also not healthy.

 

[Fabieter]

Its gonna be good dude, its more streamlined than persona but you will have all the demons (personas) and the super dynamic battle system that you already know. No social links, no around the clock gameplay but different paths/endings. Amazing atmosphere.
I strongly recommend it if you like jrpg.

On the list it goes. The timing is really bad with downtrail and elden ring dlc around the corner than again the upcoming month all look quite goof as well for me so might just pick it up.

 

[KXVXII9X]

Why do companies ruin a good thing they have going? I really love Sega games, especially Yakuza/Like a Dragon, but I don't think this is a good idea. It is a fast way to burn people out of these IP's. Even Pokémon is taking longer between its next game to reach a better quality (hopefully).

 

[Mibu no ookami]

I think people are overreacting a bit. It makes perfect sense.

2025 - Persona 4 remake
2026 - Persona 6
2027 - Persona Remake
2028 - Persona 6 Funky Bunch - Remaster with additional content for PS6
2029 - Persona 2 Remake
2030 - Persona 5 Remake
2031 - Persona 7

Most people never played Persona 1-4. By 2030, Persona 5 will be 14 years old and have 2 iterations of Persona to draw QOL improvements. It was originally a PS3 game, so a remake on say PS6, isn't outrageous, despite how many remasters it has received.


Sonic has a bunch of games that can be remastered/remade in addition to new Sonic games. Sonic Adventure 1-2. Create a sonic adventure 3...

Yakuza Kiwami 3-6 in addition to new Like A Dragon games.

 

[Bry0]

I love yakuza, and it’s basically already been an annual franchise, hell we even get 2 games a year sometimes. So far they’ve kept the quality high, but I’m a little concerned about that long term….

 

[IAmRei]

Persona 2, in 3D, please <3

 

[ULTROS!]

port or remake of SMT1, SMT2, SMT4+Apocalypse pls

 

[tkscz]

I feel that last tweet, I hope SMT 5:V will do good numbers but it won't

Didn't SMT 5 do good for being a Switch exclusive?

On topic: This sounds like a very Sega thing to do so I'm not surprised. Sonic fans are rabid and will pretty much buy anything with his face slapped on it, even if it's bad they'll buy it because they either want to bad mouth it online or just a new sonic thing. Like they said, Persona development was already like this so it's not like Atlas is doing anything new here. Yakuza and spin-offs were already damn near yearly.

Sega creating rushed titles is old news for them, but it makes them money so can't argue with the results.

 

[Lambogenie]

It's mostly gonna be faff like Persona Dancing and other spin offs. So that's fine.

I hope. Not gonna keep up with annual stuff if it's canon/a mainline game. Time's short.

 

[Zheph]

Didn't SMT 5 do good for being a Switch exclusive?

On topic: This sounds like a very Sega thing to do so I'm not surprised. Sonic fans are rabid and will pretty much buy anything with his face slapped on it, even if it's bad they'll buy it because they either want to bad mouth it online or just a new sonic thing. Like they said, Persona development was already like this so it's not like Atlas is doing anything new here. Yakuza and spin-offs were already damn near yearly.

Sega creating rushed titles is old news for them, but it makes them money so can't argue with the results.

I can't say, maybe Thick Thighs Save Lives will have some data. All I know is that I did my part with the collector edition on switch + steelbook edition for V on PS5

 

[YeulEmeralda]

Well the insane gap between P4 and P5 is not something that Sega wants to repeat I'm sure.

 

[YeulEmeralda]

Heh, Yakuza went from not being popular to now about to become an annual title. As much as I love it, I also hope that doesn't come with a drop in quality, as has happened with sports games and other annual releases.

Yakuza was already an annual title. They pumped them out fast on PS2 and PS3. Just because they didn't come out in the West doesn't change that.

 

[Švejk]

The 3 Sega IP's I could care the least about. I see nothing is changing there, as usual.

 

[Topher]

Looking forward to Persona remakes.

 

[Kazdane]

I'm currently going through Persona 4 Golden (it's the first Persona game I've ever played) and I have to admit... I feared I would drop it because I would get bored with the social life aspect of the game, but the characters are great and the story is interesting. So I'm looking forward to playing more titles (I'll definitely be playing P5R and P3R afterwards). So as far as I'm concerned... bring it on!

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Persona was better in 2008 when it was this obscure, weirdo game and you'd get clowned on for liking it via Fatlus memes.

 

[Fbh]

The only one of those I care about is Like a Dragon, and if you count remasters it has basically been a yearly franchise since 2019 already (I think except for 2022). So this doesn't change that much for me.
Maybe if they have to churn out Persona games faster they can finally make them better paced and less boring.

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

This is....not the best news

Persona 2, in 3D, please <3

The one Persona I'd definitely like to see get a modern remake in 3D.

 

[Woopah]

I think people are overreacting a bit. It makes perfect sense.

2025 - Persona 4 remake
2026 - Persona 6
2027 - Persona Remake
2028 - Persona 6 Funky Bunch - Remaster with additional content for PS6
2029 - Persona 2 Remake
2030 - Persona 5 Remake
2031 - Persona 7

Most people never played Persona 1-4. By 2030, Persona 5 will be 14 years old and have 2 iterations of Persona to draw QOL improvements. It was originally a PS3 game, so a remake on say PS6, isn't outrageous, despite how many remasters it has received.


Sonic has a bunch of games that can be remastered/remade in addition to new Sonic games. Sonic Adventure 1-2. Create a sonic adventure 3...

Yakuza Kiwami 3-6 in addition to new Like A Dragon games.

I don't think it even has to be just mainline titles. They sayvspin off counts, so some years would have something like Persona Tactica, Scramble or Dancing.

Didn't SMT 5 do good for being a Switch exclusive?

On topic: This sounds like a very Sega thing to do so I'm not surprised. Sonic fans are rabid and will pretty much buy anything with his face slapped on it, even if it's bad they'll buy it because they either want to bad mouth it online or just a new sonic thing. Like they said, Persona development was already like this so it's not like Atlas is doing anything new here. Yakuza and spin-offs were already damn near yearly.

Sega creating rushed titles is old news for them, but it makes them money so can't argue with the results.

It did great for an SMT game, but not multi millions or anything like that.

 

[Solidus_T]

Persona 1 and 2 remakes baby

I would even be happy with a re-release of the PSP versions.