Please release this on home consoles only (PS3 please) and NOT on a handheld, it just isn't the same.

" I hope they make it multi-platform so we 360 owners can play it. Loved Persona 3 and 4 on PS2, but I don't have a PS3 and I don't plan on buying one until it drops below €200. "

Like Jeff says, P4 was great because of the characters. Naturally, P5 can't simply copy-paste them, no matter how much the GB community would like it.  However, I am fairly positive that P4's characters were loved by a greater audience, by percentage, than P3's. Therefore, Atlus would be foolish not to incorporate the characters somewhat.
 
In P4, one of the P3 characters made a brief cameo - fan service, it was. For reasons I will bring up at a later date, it is my opinion that the P4 characters should be featured prominently (at least secondarily) as sort of mentors for the new group, or at least show up on a regular basis (maybe even be the antagonists?).

"Like Jeff says, P4 was great because of the characters. Naturally, P5 can't simply copy-paste them, no matter how much the GB community would like it.  However, I am fairly positive that P4's characters were loved by a greater audience, by percentage, than P3's. Therefore, Atlus would be foolish not to incorporate the characters somewhat.  In P4, one of the P3 characters made a brief cameo - fan service, it was. For reasons I will bring up at a later date, it is my opinion that the P4 characters should be featured prominently (at least secondarily) as sort of mentors for the new group, or at least show up on a regular basis (maybe even be the antagonists?)."

" I'm obviously interested in a new Persona game. But I'm also very attached to the cast of Persona 4. " 
 
felt the same moving from p3 to p4 though i still prefer the p3 cast i dont mind p4's

" @btman said:

" @Chuggsy said:

" @Lambert said:

" Yes. Endurance run 2.0. Can't wait!  Only reason I like this game is because of the endurance run. I could never play such a shitty game series like persona. "

This post made me do a double take.  Everybody is entitled to their opinions, but you realize Jeff and Vinny both loved it, and that's the reason they got so into the ER so much. You're the first person I've heard on this site who called this series shitty. I didn't know somebody could watch the endurance run and not love the game by the end of it. That's what made the ER so great for me at least, I was addicted to the game as well as the commentary. "

they loved because of how shitty it was... don't you remember them talking about quiting multiple times? "

You're dumb. "

Animé RPG's are for jerks.

The problem with Persona 4 is that it is a jRPG and even though it is a rather exceptional one it is still mired in jRPG trappings and quite frankly they're not very good!
 
The Endurance Run made it fun because part of it was picking apart the cutscenes, part of it was them playing a game and dealing with it's bullshit so you don't have to, and part of it was slowly but surely growing attached to the characters.
 
Not a lot of the fun of the Endurance Run was stuff the actual GAME did, it was mostly Jeff and Vinny bein' funny and sayin' funny things. There were maybe four or five bits in Persona 4 that made me laugh intentionally.

" Animé RPG's are for jerks. "

With the Endurace Run and my own copy, I've run through Persona 4 twice
and I still think from time to time. "I wonder how Chie's doing!"
or "What's Kanji up to, I should check.. oh wait." it's over, Persona 4 is over.
I don't think a day passes though where I don't find myself daydreaming
about the cast, what they're up to and how they turned out fake-life.
 
Hell I even made Chie and Teddy in Second Life, how lame is that!
Or creepy.. I.. anyway, Persona 5 has some big fancy shoes to fill.

" @btman said:

" @Chuggsy said:

" @Lambert said:

" Yes. Endurance run 2.0. Can't wait!  Only reason I like this game is because of the endurance run. I could never play such a shitty game series like persona. "

This post made me do a double take.  Everybody is entitled to their opinions, but you realize Jeff and Vinny both loved it, and that's the reason they got so into the ER so much. You're the first person I've heard on this site who called this series shitty. I didn't know somebody could watch the endurance run and not love the game by the end of it. That's what made the ER so great for me at least, I was addicted to the game as well as the commentary. "

they loved because of how shitty it was... don't you remember them talking about quiting multiple times? "

You're dumb. "

Persona 3 had a great cast of lovable characters as well, I'm sure an eventual Persona 5 would follow suit.

They should call it Per5ona

" @Jon93 said:

" GET BENT "

Only watermelon can sooth the savage beast. "

" They should call it Per5ona "

My fantasy of what Persona 5 could be will probably always be more awesome then the game itself will be. 
 
Regardless, I'm hoping the new summoning gimmick will involve transformation belts and the personas being big robutts. I also hope you run into Charlie, start talking about girlfriends and a list pops up as he answers who his girlfriend was. Whoever you pick also make a breif cameo. 
 
Though the most awesome way I could personally think this could turn out was that you played a new character, but eventually started meeting the characters from P3 and P4. Also Nanako transfers into your school and is one of the main party members.

" @Landon said:

" They should call it Per5ona "

P3R50N4! "

YES!! The crowd goes wild for Persona 5.

The only way this news could be better if it was a direct sequel to 4, going back to the town years later

" @animateria said:

" @Landon said:

" They should call it Per5ona "

P3R50N4! "

YES! "

" @RockmanBionics said:

" @animateria said:

" @Landon said:

" They should call it Per5ona "

P3R50N4! "

YES! "

only if they somehow tie together 3 and 4 and 5 wraps it all up "

they loved because of how shitty it was... don't you remember them talking about quiting multiple times? "

That is the dumbest thing I've read in a while.  

Why don't you take a look at this: 

http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/jeff/on-the-subject-of-endurance/30-24778/     
 
" I feel like I can safely say that Persona 4 is one of the best RPGs I've ever "played"

 
Oh yeah, Jeff definitely thinks it's shitty.

If Jeff and Vinny don't do an endurance run of Persona 5, I will be very disappointed.  Don't disappoint me Jeff and Vinny!

" If Jeff and Vinny don't do an endurance run of Persona 5, I will be very disappointed.  Don't disappoint me Jeff and Vinny! "

Uh, you sayin' I like dudes?

  I played through P4 first and then went back to P3 FES, I'm litreally about an hour away from the end of the main game and ended up growing more attached to the P3 cast then the P4 ones.
 
@animateria said:

"Yukari and Mitsuru totally kick every P4 girls ass!"
 

Ah, the rumor mill. A few tantalizing hints of effing radness. 
 
But hell. It's P5 (or at least a glimpse (not even that) of it). 
 
So. 
 
EFFING RAD!

w/e

I hope it's not PS3 exclusive. Because if it is, I'm gonna have to buy a damn PS3.

Well, everything about Persona 3 as far as character and story appealed to me more than those aspects in Persona 4, but to each it's own.  I'm not going to argue that topic again here, but I will say that I look forward to the new characters Atlus will be creating for Persona 5.  I want to get to know a brand new team of shadow-fighters, each with their own quirks and qualities.  I hope the developers will include cameos from a few of the P3 & P4 characters in addition to our favorite persona.  
 
Having heard this latest bit of news yesterday, I really don't expect to see any more on the topic until 2011...well, maybe TGS this fall but if that happens, I doubt it will be anything more than a few concept screens.

I look to a new cast that I can fall in love with all over again. Keep the Persona 4 characters in Persona 4 and don't try to do anything else with them. Remember how much everyone loved The Answer? Yeah...

" There's also the characters from the anime, which i never finished watching, so i'm not sure what hapens. "

"For reasons I will bring up at a later date, it is my opinion that the P4 characters should be featured prominently (at least secondarily) as sort of mentors for the new group, or at least show up on a regular basis (maybe even be the antagonists?)."

 "Yukari and Mitsuru totally kick every P4 girls ass!"  

 
 
 Man, if you're gonna make the blasphemous claim that P3 is somehow bettter then P4 in any way, atleast don't use the worst characters in P3. ;P
 
 
EDIT:
 
Nevermind.
 
I remembered Fuuka exists.

" I remembered Fuuka exists."

I'd love to see a few more connections to the first two Persona games. P3 had a couple of "blink and you'll miss it" references to things like the Nanjo Group, but that was it. More please.

...oh, and maybe a shift from high school to a college setting is finally in order.

You'll get used to a new cast.  I also spent the first 20 or so hours not caring about any of the characters in P4, simply because I loved P3 so much. But I came to like the characters in the end so it's all good.

I played Persona 4 first when it came out and fell in love with it. The characters were almost all likable and sure made some great progression becoming closer and closer friends during the course of the game. When I then decided to try out its predecessor I was skeptical to say the least, but in the end I had to admit that, hands down, P3 (FES I should mention) was even better. The story had a bigger impact on me, it certainly had a larger scale and the ending ... just wow - brilliant in every aspect.
 
P3 and P4 rank up there with my favorite FF's in terms of JRPGs.
 
It'll be hard to top that, that's for sure.
 
I'm kinda worried of the whole Next-Gen thing. The dated yet somehow fitting graphics were kind of an appeal of the earlier games.

Great news.  There's no way they can avoid doing an endurance run on that one.

"  I  still think about Persona 4 more than I care to admit, and the notion of another game is tearing me apart. I'm obviously interested in a new Persona game. But I'm also very attached to the cast of Persona 4" this was how i felt about persona 3. then after i watched the persona 4 endurance run, I feel attached to those characters too, so i'm optimistic, or maybe just hopeful, that P5 will not disappoint 

I think it should be a game where you play as Jack/Black Frost and the game itself is a journey through his history, ho. Every chapter would be a team up with different protagonists throughout the entire Megaten franchise, ho. Also, there will be an online co-op mode where the second player gets to be Ghoul, ho.

@mutha3 
@Chuggsy
@SpunkyHePanda
 
Watch the 50th episode behind the scenes Vinny says "I'm still amazed we're going, to be honest.  I thought it'd be fun for the first couple episodes then the very last episode."  When asked about the ER Jeff said "I thought it'd be one of those things that last for about 2 weeks or goes all the way to the end.  It's lasted more then 2 weeks and thats kinda scaring me now."  Later Vinny says sarcastically "Who knew we'd make it this far?"  Later Vinny says when talking about Drew doing the episodes "Hey Drew, look at this thing we do.  We play Persona every day, and i don't wanna do it anymore."        so fuck you, fuck you, and.... fuck you

I said this on another site, but why don't they take advantage of Blu-ray technology (assuming that Persona is finally going to be made for the PS3) and put in another mission where your crew meets up with the old crew (the P4 crew in this case) like they did in P4 (where you visited 3). That'd be cool, I think.

  so fuck you, fuck you, and.... fuck you