Summary
June 8 could be a big day forPersonafans. According to some newly surfaced circumstantial evidence, Atlus might be planning a newPersonagame announcement for that date.
The day in question will see the Japanese company host Persona Live Tour 2024, a livestream scheduled to kick off at 6pm ET. As the name implies, the upcoming broadcast will feature a concert performance of some of the series' iconic music. Like allpastPersonaconcerts, this will be a paid online event, with tickets being priced at ¥4,400, or just over $28.
What’s potentially more interesting than what Atlus officially said about this upcoming broadcast is what it didn’t say; as first noted by Persona Central, the Sega-owned studio has been rather meticulous about stipulating when its events would not feature any new game reveals in recent years. But the Persona Live Tour 2024 announcement contained no such notice, raising the possibility that some concrete news could be coming as part of the paid concert broadcast. While the very nature of the event might make a game announcement seem unlikely, the theory garnered the attention ofprominent Sega and Atlus leaker Midori, who retweeted it, which was enough for some fans to conclude there might be something to this train of thought.
A Possible June 2024 Persona Game Announcement Has Multiple Potential Candidates
Assuming Atlus is indeed planning to show a new game as part of the upcoming broadcast, there’s no shortage of potential candidates that could theoretically feature at the event. The biggest yet-to-be-announcedseries entry that’s confirmed to be in the works right now isPersona 6, which is reportedly targeting a 2025 release. However, the possibility of Atlus limiting the reach of its reveal by locking it behind a paywall appears slim. It is instead more likely that a theoretical June 2024 game announcement would feature a spin-off.
July 21, 2025 (China beta only)
TBA, rumored to be multi-platform
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At least two non-mainline series entries are believed to have been in the works as of late. One of them is therumored party-basedPersonagame code-named Asa, whose current fate is uncertain, with a January 2024 report from Midori suggesting the entire project might have been canceled despite reaching a late stage of development.
Another potential candidate for a near-future announcement isPersona 5: The Phantom X, a gacha spin-off for mobile devices and PC. While that particular title, developed by Chinese studio Black Wings, has been official since spring 2021, it has yet to be confirmed for any market outside of China, where it’s currently in beta. But with Midori repeatedly claiming its wider release is only a question of time, if Atlus is indeed planning an early June game announcement,Persona 5: The Phantom Xmight just be the star of it.
Persona
Persona is an RPG franchise developed and published by Atlus, spun off from its larger Megami Tensei franchise. Originally releasing in 1996 under the name Revelations: Persona, the series typically follows a core group of High School students who have access to Personas, physical manifestations of a person’s psyche and subconscious, to do battle in combat. Newer games in the franchise, starting with Persona 3, have introduced the idea of Social Links, which lets players further strengthen and evolve Personas based on time spent with their owners outside of dungeons.
