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Atlus USA responds to question on PC Persona 5 release, sounds unlikely
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Heh, yeah, like Persona 5.
That's my impression as well. How big is the Persona team?
And why wouldn't you? Why would anyone be against it? A decent PC port is virtually alays the best way to play a game when it comes to graphics and performance.
Whatever the case, hiring a porting team would pay for itself the instant the game launches. If Atlus doesn't want to do it, Sega definitely has some people they can shuffle around.
artsi
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I can't recall that told anywhere, but Atlus was 121 employees total in February 2014.
finalflame
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4K is garbage until there are some sexy 144Hz Variable Refresh 4K screens though.
I love the hyperbolic nonsense that gets thrown around on GAF. 4K is far from "garbage" because there are no 144hz G-Sync panels out. 4K60hz TVs are plenty fine for current media consumption and even PC gaming at 60hz. Sure, 144hz G-Sync 4K IPS/PLS panels will be amazing, but it's a stretch to call the tech "garbage" because it's not available in a refresh rate very, very few people can use.
Indeed, it's true that the mass majority of people who buy consoles do so for multiplatform games. Harping about exclusives is usually limited to the hardcore and invested players who comprise of a much smaller, but still valuable market (though the value of this has gone down heavily in the past few years).
He was kidding.
finalflame
Gold Member
Oh, my bad then.
Well, "expecting" is a bit pushing it, maybe I was hoping for "acknowledgement". lol
Usually company language says something along the lines of "we acknowledge this" before it changes to "we support this".
Not quite. There's still a decent chance that Persona 5 will show up on PC within a decade. However, there are a lot of Japanese games that have no chance at all of seeing a PC release.
To be fair, I think that that kind of language will have to come directly from Atlus Japan. Then again, Atlus Japan probably doesn't talk to Western media much and Japanese media have little reason to ask them about anything on PC.
CheesecakeRecipe
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It all starts somewhere, which is why PC players are insistent. Now more than ever, we're seeing support both from publishers and players for games that have long been considered "Console" experiences. For some companies, there is indeed the issue of lacking manpower, but some companies like Sega employ very tiny skeleton crews who are able to port games over and make competent ports at that.
There's very little other reason to deny such a large market other than failing to understand it. I wasn't going to expect a PC version announced day-and-date with the PS3/4 versions, but I think it is very important to do what we can to have Japanese developers/publishers understand what that market sector can do for them, in terms of sales and exposure. We have almost nothing like a Persona title on Steam, which could offer them the potential for making a killing on an entirely untapped audience.
The only reason he even used that is because the question was phrased in that 'is it impossible' way. (which itself was kind of a tricky way to get them to acknowledge something.
)Sgt.Pepper
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Because SEGA, and there's always a start. Dark Souls started as a petition, and Valkyria Chronicles came to PC. Square-Enix is even releasing all their FF games on Steam, even FF7 Remake is coming.
PC players are thristy for more Japanese devs, so Atlus will lose nothing and gain more.
Because SEGA, and there's always a start. Dark Souls started as a petition, and Valkyria Chronicles came to PC. Square-Enix is even releasing all their FF games on Steam, even FF7 Remake is coming.
PC players are thristy for more Japanese devs, so Atlus will lose nothing and gain more.
To add onto that, we have Koei Tecmo support.
Over the past year and a half, they've placed around 8 titles on Steam.
Granted, these games were ported with very little care, and the price was way too high for a games which were very late to PC, but... if KT can do it without too much fuss, I'm probably not going to buy the reasoning of "Atlus Japan doesn't have enough staff"... I'd rather believe "Atlus Japan simply isn't concerned".
Relaxed Muscle
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Expecting no, but one would think that after 400k+ and counting sales of a game like Valkyrie Chronicles (and another successes in the platform), would got thinking one of these higher up or producers at Sega, that one of the companies they own, has an ideal IP to try, at least, the waters on it.
But this is Sega and the japanese industry at the whole, there's a lot of people basically yelling "we have money, and we want to give it to you!" on the PC side, and most of them are just ignoring it.
Actually, Sega is possibly more committed to PC development than any other Japanese publisher. They're less likely to ignore the PC as a platform than their peers and that's precisely why there's a good chance of Atlus games showing put there sooner or later.
Well, what makes Persona 5 different than the other games you're referring to. Sega?
Edit: Looking at your last reply, I assume that that's it. I wouldn't bet that Sega has great influence when it comes to this, and that it would mostly be dependent on Atlus' decision at this point.
On its own, I'd imagine that Atlus would view the PC in the same way that most other Japanese developers look at it: a verboten platform. However, they're not on their own any more, and Sega is there to allay any fears that Atlus may have. There's certainly a chance that it might not be enough and Atlus will stay console-only, but I think that Sega's numbers will win out in the end.
FeiTheVillain
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Never. Go ahead and stop dreaming. It's pathetic.
Crimsonclaw111
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What a spiteful bump lmao
Kralamoonard
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:lol:
Dude did you even check the date of the post you replied to before posting?
Dude did you even check the date of the post you replied to before posting?
MaximumSpider
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This man got mad and decided to bump a 6 month old thread smh tbh fam
DrunkShogun
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I don't have a PC but this was just a sad move.
Jawbreaker
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Did you just wake up from a coma only to find out you hadn't submitted your reply yet?
Crimsonclaw111
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Really? That is the pathetic post? You're not missing something?
Sorcerer Supreme
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Atlus is dumb. But whatever, I'll get Persona 5 on PS3, play it and then never touch another Atlus game unless it's on PC going forward. *shrug* No skin off my nose.
If even NIS is starting to do PC ports, there is no excuse left in the book for Atlus.
If even NIS is starting to do PC ports, there is no excuse left in the book for Atlus.
zerokoolpsx
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Of all the time to bump an old thread lol.
I'm thinking to myself "what on earth could possibly cause this old thread of mine to be bumped" and then I see that someone is extraordinarily late to the verbal beatdown response
EDIT: And it was a post on the first page too. Haha
Nocturno999
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Carnage always gets mad when someone sugests a pc port.
The Artisan
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why did you bump for this?
Sir Blaming
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Wow, you are really salty for some reason.
Jawmuncher
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PC Ports are the worst. Why would you want a game to be available to more people!
this is hilarious
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