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Release on different platforms?
Yeah that seems the most obvious. Unless that is what they consider top shelf sales, and don’t expect much more.
obvious yes but it's not gonna happen. the main Persona games are Playstation exclusive. I don't see it changing any time soon. You want to play them? Buy a Playstation.
Because it doesn't make any sense for Atlus not to port it and get more money. Third-parties should be on multiple platfroms in the year 2019. The only exception being that a platform holder finances a project, of course. But Persona wasn't bankrolled by Sony AFAIK. And Atlus isn't some small indie studio, they've got about 300 employees and they got Sega behind them. The same should be done for SMT5, btw. No reason that Atlus' games should be only on one platform.
Ah yes the age old excuse.
But I played it already and I've already pre-ordered P5R, even if I think it should've been a DLC instead of a full price game. But then again, P5 is my favourite JRPG this gen, so I know I am part of the problem. I have played most of Atlus' games, including the Etrian Odyssey games (although I bought my 3DS originally for Mega Man Legends 3....). So I'm not port begging because I don't own the platforms, I am port begging because there's no reason why there shouldn't be more options for players available to play on. And I would love for Atlus to embrace PC as a platform as well.
First let me apologize if i sounded too aggressive.
Why are poeple with anime avatars such idiots?
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Well, yeah. That was my point. I am port begging but for a different reason
Don't worry man, no harm done. I sometimes also come across as aggressive. We're invested in this topic, haha. Your first point is interesting. I am not well versed in Japanese culture but is this really how some businesses over there act? If you'd argue from a purely financial standpoint, the stronger argument seems to be to get a possible audience as big as possible and PS4 didn't sell that much in Japan. But I wouldn't be completely surprised if you were right with this. Your second point might be the actual reason but that must also mean that Sega are very hands-off? Sega do have resources and people to help. Catherine was ported to PC by a Sega team, if I remember it correctly.
That is my suspicion as well. Their tooling and engine might be too platform specific. I know the pains of porting software to other architectures and in one instance, I had to actually drop one feature because it wasn't feasible on the other architecture. That being said, P5 doesn't seem like something a PC or even a Switch couldn't run. The original P5 ran on the PS3 and P5R doesn't seem to do that much more. So that's why my suspicion is that it might not be "what did they do" but rather "how did they do it" type of problem.
