So... it's the same as the Japanese one. It even still says "Mayonaka TV" in the top left.
 

@FluxWaveZ: I think as a theme it's fine but I'm glad they removed it from the title. Saying: Persona 4 the Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena, just took way tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo long.

@FluxWaveZ said:

Posted it here, but I guess new news = new thread works (even though it's rather insignificant news). Like I mentioned in that thread, I find it weird how they kept the "MayonakaTV" there.

The inclusion of Mayonaka TV is part of the actual artwork, which was left untouched. The only thing changed was the logo treatment.

@FluxWaveZ: Here's a possible reason I just thought of. Destroy all context you have from persona. Now imagine seeing box art that had Midnight Channel on it... think for a bit.

Played both P3 and P4....but who's that white chick?

The inclusion of Mayonaka TV is part of the actual artwork, which was left untouched. The only thing changed was the logo treatment.

@FluxWaveZ said:

@Irvandus: But "Mayonaka TV" literally means "Midnight Channel". I'm pretty sure that "Mayonaka" was never used in the English version of Persona 4, so I'm not sure why it's on the box of the English version of P4A.

Technically, it means "Midnight TV"...and it was used in the English version...kinda.

@Mcfart said:

Played both P3 and P4....but who's that white chick?

New character. She's a robot, just like Aigis.

I don't care about this cover at all.

Technically, it means "Midnight TV"...and it was used in the English version...kinda.

@FluxWaveZ said:

@Hailinel said:

The inclusion of Mayonaka TV is part of the actual artwork, which was left untouched. The only thing changed was the logo treatment.

Which is why I'm wondering why they didn't touch it. Box art is changed all the time from region to region, so that's why the only thing I can think of in this case for not doing something with the "MayonakaTV" is laziness, or perhaps considered not a worthy allocation of resources.

@Irvandus: Right...

It's part of the original artwork, so it's harder to touch up and replace without looking obviously edited.

@Mcfart said:

Played both P3 and P4....but who's that white chick?

New character. She's a robot, just like Aigis.

I find it interesting this isn't branded as Shin Megami Tensei: P4A.

I find it interesting this isn't branded as Shin Megami Tensei: P4A.

@MikeGosot said:

@Strife777 said:

@Mcfart said:

Played both P3 and P4....but who's that white chick?

New character. She's a robot, just like Aigis.

She actually appeared ina Drama CD for Persona 3. But yeah, new character to most people.

But they hadn't designed her though, right? I'm not even sure what the Drama CDs are. I haven't finished all of P3 (I played it on PSP).

So... how exactly is Labrys mentioned in the Drama CDs? What is revealed about her?

I've heard people say that she was in one of the drama CDs but I can barely find any information about it.

In [the] Moonlight Drama CD, Aigis was visited by a mysterious girl (in a manner akin to Minato's Pharos). This prompted a flashback about the time of Aigis's creation. In the flashback, a scientist mentioned about a 5th Anti-Shadow weapon model named Labrys, but Labrys herself doesn't make an appearance. The mysterious girl who visited Aigis is not Labrys.

@FluxWaveZ said:

@Animasta said:

I find it interesting this isn't branded as Shin Megami Tensei: P4A.

Neither is Persona 4 Golden, as far as I can tell. Maybe adding "SMT" isn't helping their marketing for the newer Persona games any and they realize that.

Well it's not like they would know, they haven't released any without it since these two; did P3P have the SMT moniker?

@FluxWaveZ said:

@Animasta said:

I find it interesting this isn't branded as Shin Megami Tensei: P4A.

Neither is Persona 4 Golden, as far as I can tell. Maybe adding "SMT" isn't helping their marketing for the newer Persona games any and they realize that.

Well it's not like they would know

So... how exactly is Labrys mentioned in the Drama CDs? What is revealed about her?

I've heard people say that she was in one of the drama CDs but I can barely find any information about it.

@Animasta said:

@FluxWaveZ said:

@Animasta said:

I find it interesting this isn't branded as Shin Megami Tensei: P4A.

Neither is Persona 4 Golden, as far as I can tell. Maybe adding "SMT" isn't helping their marketing for the newer Persona games any and they realize that.

Well it's not like they would know, they haven't released any without it since these two; did P3P have the SMT moniker?

At this point Persona 4 alone is as big as SMT (in west at least) I mean that's what they're trying to prove, with the all-media blowout of Persona 4 right? (even though we aren't getting the novels/stage plays/branded soft drinks/whatever).

@mutha3 said:

@Animasta said:

@FluxWaveZ said:

@Animasta said:

I find it interesting this isn't branded as Shin Megami Tensei: P4A.

Neither is Persona 4 Golden, as far as I can tell. Maybe adding "SMT" isn't helping their marketing for the newer Persona games any and they realize that.

Well it's not like they would know

I think looking at the sales disparity between SMT offshoots/main line and Persona tells you enough! I think they add "SMT" to Persona more to help their other SMT titles. To answer your question: P3P had the SMT moniker, yeah.

Well SMT3: Nocturne was so long ago, and strange journey is more in common with etrian odyssey in terms of difficulty/niche so I doubt we'll know for sure until SMTIV comes out here.

Still not a huge fan of the cover, but I'll live!

Cover's fine. This year is really slim on releases I'm interested in, so I'm looking forward to this.

@mutha3 said:

@Animasta said:

@FluxWaveZ said:

@Animasta said:

I find it interesting this isn't branded as Shin Megami Tensei: P4A.

Neither is Persona 4 Golden, as far as I can tell. Maybe adding "SMT" isn't helping their marketing for the newer Persona games any and they realize that.

Well it's not like they would know

I think looking at the sales disparity between SMT offshoots/main line and Persona tells you enough! I think they add "SMT" to Persona more to help their other SMT titles. To answer your question: P3P had the SMT moniker, yeah.

Well SMT3: Nocturne was so long ago, and strange journey is more in common with etrian odyssey in terms of difficulty/niche so I doubt we'll know for sure until SMTIV comes out here.

Yes but you forget:

Raidou clearly should be a DLC character for this game...

@Cloudenvy said:

Still not a huge fan of the cover, but I'll live!

At least it's better then the SSF4 box art.

@MikeGosot said:

@Strife777 said:

@Mcfart said:

Played both P3 and P4....but who's that white chick?

New character. She's a robot, just like Aigis.

She actually appeared ina Drama CD for Persona 3. But yeah, new character to most people.

But they hadn't designed her though, right? I'm not even sure what the Drama CDs are. I haven't finished all of P3 (I played it on PSP).

So I was correct in assuming that the "Mayonaka TV" on the box art was due to them deciding not to allocate resources to it based on a Nich Maragos Atlus post:

It's still the Midnight Channel in game. There are some graphic assets that couldn't be changed (like the cover bit) that will still say "Mayonaka" something-or-other, but that term is never used in the script.