Persona Live Stream Event 2015 Announced for February 4th

Updates (follow this Twitter account for timely updates):

- 11:15 PM EST (February 3): Persona 4: Dancing All Night Japanese website updated with a banner to the news stream.

- 4:00 AM EST (February 4): Persona Magazine 2015 issue #February revealed via Amazon.

- 4:40 AM EST (February 4): Top 10 P4G fan voted characters revealed.

- 7:09 AM EST (February 4): Top 25 Persona fan voted songs.

- 9:40 AM EST (February 4): Full version of the Persona 4: Dancing All Night opening theme revealed and played.

- 10:00 AM EST (February 4): Persona 5 potentially teased on the stream, with the time counter getting all warped:

- 5:33 PM EST (February 4): Persona 5 and Persona Super Live 2015 teased in Japanese newspaper.

- 8:05 PM EST (February 4): The locks previously enveloping the circular icon on the Persona Super Live 2015 website have been removed to reveal a link to the official News Flash! Persona Channel 2015 blog post.

- 10:10 PM EST (February 4): New Persona 4 Arena Ultimax avatars from the arcade version 2.00 added as free DLC to the console version.

Remember this November 24, 2013 event where people freaked out, and which lead to the announcements of Persona Q, Persona 4: Dancing All Night and Persona 5? It's happening again.

The "News Flash! Persona Channel 2015" live stream will start on February 4th at 1:00 PM JST (which is February 3rd at 11:00 PM EST), and will last for 30 consecutive hours, showing both old and new stuff about Persona. Notably, the event is happening a day before the Persona Super Live 2015 concert.

Persona 5 and Persona 4: Dancing All Night will most likely be shown here, finally.

Schedule:

Streams:

Official Atlus Niconico Live Stream

Persona Channel Stream Page

Gematsu Twitch Restream

WounLive Twitch Restream

Archive:

User MysticDistance's Youtube

Neat! Assuming the stream will be in Japanese I'll probably just wait to get a summary of the news afterwards. 30 hours is pretty wild...

Few days before my 21st bday. Best fucking present anyone has ever gotten me. I just pray P5 is this year/early next (not gonna happen)

The last stream was absolutely terrible, with a Teddie cosplayer getting groped by the VA of Kanji. It will be 30 hours of nothing and at the very end the very same trailer for Persona 5 you've already seen. So don't get your hopes up.

That's wrong for a plethora of reasons. The main one being that that stream was an anime focused, region locked one which ended up announcing Persona 4 The Golden Animation. This is analogous to the November 24th, 2013 stream, not Persona Stalker Club or the Datsu Nugu stream.

Fuck yes. Fuck yes. Fuck yes. Fuck yes.

Can't wait, will be glued to which ever thread has the most up to date information. I am so ready for Persona 5.

I am super pumped for several hours of that old lady looking at sexy anime.

29 hours and 59 minutes of Dancing All Night coverage.

Can't wait.

I am gonna assume that if there is any in-game footage of P5 shown, someone will post it up somewhere, and I will save myself 29 hours and 58 minutes of stream-watching.

DOPE

I wonder if this will be a full trailer or a full on info dump. I assume this is a late 2015 release so maybe that means we just get a trailer?

Schedule for the news stream, translated via NeoGAF user GSR:

Posted here yet? The schedule for the 30-hour livestream is up:

(All times in JST.)

February 4th:

13:00~

Countdown stream begins! (Greetings from the host, Teddie)

14:00~

Persona Q character video gallery

15:00~

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax character video gallery

18:00~

Persona 4: The Golden Vita the Best edition celebration. Includes past promotional videos, and a presentation of the top 10 Persona 4 Golden characters voted on by fans.

19:30~

Best Hit Persona Sound 25. Playing the top 25 songs voted on by fans.

21:30~

Persona 3 the Movie #1 and #2 digest. Digests (presumably cut-down versions) of both films will be shown.

23:40~

??????

February 5th:

12:30~

??????

13:00~

Best Hit Persona Sound 25 (repeat)

15:00~

Persona 4: The Golden Vita the Best edition celebration (repeat)

17:00~

?????? (repeat)

18:00~

Teddie's final countdown begins

18:00~

Special Nihon Budokan edition of Persona Stalker Club, featuring the latest info on the series.

21:00~

??????

@fluxwavez: The ??? stuff has to be Persona 5, right?!? Otherwise that's a whole lot of nothing.

@corevi: Persona 5 will be featured during this stream, obviously. Not all of the question marks will be Persona 5, but other reveals (Persona 4: Dancing All Night will also be part of the stream). The last slot for February 5th, 21:00 JST probably is going to be Persona 5; the question marks for that slot are the only ones in red on the Niconico live stream page.

For Eastern/Pacific zone people, the only time I think you'd want to pay attention to the stream is:

• Feb 4th, 9:40 AM EST / 6:40 AM PST
• Feb 4th, 10:30 PM EST / 7:30 PM PST
• Feb 5th. 7:00 AM EST / 4:00 AM PST (likely the Persona 5 bit)

Looks like I won't be able to watch the last bit of the stream, hopefully big big news is announced.

Have they showed a single gameplay video of Persona 5? A single in game screen shot? Wasn't it supposed to be out this past December already?

No, no and kinda, Winter 2014 means December 2014 to February 2015.

It's also possible "Winter 2014" winds up meaning "Q1 2015" and it doesn't drop until March. Either way I don't think we'll see an English version of any sort until autumn or winter (please prove me wrong and release them all simultaneously next week, please please please).

Nah, Persona 5's director explicitly said the game was pushed back, so I wouldn't expect it that soon.

I'm keeping track of news updates via this NeoGAF thread, but here are the two things of substance that we've got so far:

Neat this started. If my calculations are correct we should be hitting the first ???? very soon.

Edit: Pretty sure my calculations were not correct and we already passed the first ???

So it looks like you need a NicoNico account to actually watch the stream, is that something that's hard to sign up for? I might try and do it by the second thing tonight.

Edit: Whoops, nevermind, just saw all the links in the OP.

@epidehl: I put a list of streams in the OP. A Niconico account isn't hard to make. You can watch one of the restreamers, or just go to http://p-ch.jp/ to watch the stream there.

I'm excited about this is only for the return of the Endurance Run.

@limond: Not gonna happen

A Persona 4: Dancing All Night Endurance Run? Sure, that sounds alright.

@fluxwavez said:

Only if its Jeff and Vinny

Yosuke is the number one fan voted favorite character? Whaaaaat? I swear the dude spends half the game rolling around in a trashcan. Maybe it was his sweet fur coat and baller katana that did it.

They probably will announce the P5 release date for Japan and it will be coming really really soon. They have a habit of doing that with P3 and P4, wish more devs did that.

Yosuke isn't even in my Top 5!!!

Persona fans are completely wrong.

@nightriff: I think Jeff and anime editor Dan would be good. Or Jeff and Drew.

The thing is, Yosuke may have been slightly douchey, but I still liked him as a character and honestly, he was the real leader of the investigation team. He was the one setting up meetings and actually figuring everything out. He can be blunt and tactless in speech, but he grows on you and is there to make things happen.

It would be difficult for me to come up with a list of top Persona characters though, because it's mostly their interactions with each other that makes it fun.

So the P5 footage will probably be that last set of question marks, right?

they're gonna announce persona 5 again

Yosuke sucks.

I like that they are doing this stream and we will get new Persona 5 info.

But ultimately I only care about the release date, I could literally buy that game sight unseen.

Even if it's terrible I'll have to play it.

That P4 Dancing OP is legit.

Yup that's pretty much exactly how I feel about it. They'll probably wait until the very last second to announce the date though...

Me three!

Does anybody know what Persona 4 Golden the Best Edition is?

Its just the "greatest hits" release.

the new P4DAN song is sooooooooooooooo good

QFT

Also: is Funky Student going to make an appearance? This is critical information!

@limond: I would except Drew as he watched them play originally. I only want the crew to be people you have experienced a Persona game so fuck Brad (as he quit 4 hours in) and Dan (who I'm assuming wouldn't touch those games)

Damn right he does. YOU SHOULD HAVE STAYED IN THE GARBAGE WHERE I FIRST SAW YOU, YOSUKE

I'm not sure how you can like Persona 4 if you hate Yosuke. So much of the story is delivered through him.

Nanako should have been way up there, have no idea why Adachi is even close, and Yosuke?!? really? Also it's weird that Charlie Tounoku's name is wrong... must be the japanese name.

Is the only new thing the Dancing All Night trailer so far?