A fun thing to do is going through the Persona 5 forums here and seeing how much of a pile of broken dreams it is. If it's not people trying to guess at the concepts and systems that will form P5, it's people posting about a potential announcement that isn't anywhere near when they think it's going to be.

So I'm curious to see when people think P5 will truly be unveiled. We already know the game's in development—we've known this for a while now—but I want to know when people think it'll actually be shown. When I say "revealed", I mean something substantial like a trailer, official art, gameplay or just a bunch of info.

This should also be fun to look back on a year from now only to find out that Persona 5 still hasn't been revealed.

My vote goes to Q3 2013.

Official Announcement vs. Release Date Timeline (Japan)

• Persona 3: March 2006 — July 2006
• Persona 4: March 2008 — July 2008
• Persona 1 (PSP): August 2009 — April 2009
• Persona 3 Portable: August 2009 — November 2009
• Persona 2: Innocent Sin (PSP): October 2010 — April 2011
• Persona 4 Golden: August 2011 — June 2012
• Persona 4 Arena: August 2011 — July 2012
• Persona 2: Eternal Punishment (PSP): February 2012 — May 2012

Edit:

This used to be a pretty interesting poll, but the site update blew it up. Going by memory, the percentages were approximately something like:

2012 - 5%

Q1 2013 - 15%

Q2 2013 - 30%

Q3 2013 - 15% (I voted for this one)

Q4 2013 - 10%

2014 - 15%

Never - 10%

I hope it's this E3.

I'm looking forward to bitching about this not coming to Europe. How's that?

The real answer here is "Not soon enough." I'm going to put my bet down on Q3 2013, though. I was joking earlier, of course I want them to take their time and make it as good as they possibly can- all of the writing, dialogue recording, music production etc has to be time consuming- not to mention localization. Luckily (or unluckily, I suppose), I didn't really get into SMT games until earlier this year. I'm playing through Nocturne right now, I'm going to pick up P4G, then hit the back catalog on PSP (I'd hope they'd localize that Eternal Punishment port... PS1 copies are mad expensive).

Next TGS most likely.

Next year as a Wii U exclusive.

@Simulacrum said:

Next TGS most likely.

Does Atlus ever even attend TGS?

And this exact statement's been stated for 3 years now in this forum, so it's kinda funny.

My guess is Q1 or Q2 of next year.

I just hope the game gets released in 2013 instead of reveal 2013 and release 2014.

I'm interested how the sales of Arena will impact the development. Did it sell well? I get a feeling they could realise there's a huge gap in the market right now.

Although, Persona has always seemed to fill a gap no other games fill.

2014. It's going to be announced as a Dreamcast exclusive.

@cheebaking said:

I'm interested how the sales of Arena will impact the development. Did it sell well? I get a feeling they could realise there's a huge gap in the market right now.

Persona 4 Arena was one of the fastest selling fighting games of all time in Japan. In North America, I don't think it blew away sales charts, but it probably did as well as Atlus USA was expecting it to.

2014 of course ... nah I'd say even more 1 year after the new Xbox and new PS launch , so late 2014.

In North America, I don't think it blew away sales charts, but it probably did as well as Atlus USA was expecting it to.

A fun thing to do is going through the Persona 5 forums here and seeing how much of a pile of broken dreams it is. If it's not people trying to guess at the concepts and systems that will form P5, it's people posting about a potential announcement that isn't anywhere near when they think it's going to be.

I'm looking forward to bitching about this not coming to Europe. How's that?

2014 of course ... nah I'd say even more 1 year after the new Xbox and new PS launch , so late 2014.

@mwng said:

I'm looking forward to bitching about this not coming to Europe. How's that?

I will also be monitoring every topic and doing the same. I wonder if it'll be announced before we hear about Arena.

After the new set of console are announced though Persona 5 will still be a PS3 exclusive.

Whenever the new consoles are out. They have to keep the tradition of releasing Persona RPG's on relatively dead consoles going.

There's a guy in Persona 4 Golden that talks about it.

There's a guy in Persona 4 Golden that talks about it.

@mutha3 said:

@ma_rc_01 said:

There's a guy in Persona 4 Golden that talks about it.

Ha, that would be cool. We didn't find out about Vincent 'till the western release of P3P after all.

I was going to say if there truly was someone like that in P4G, I would have known about it. But yeah, it seems we only knew about the "Man Drinking Alone" in August 2010, 9 months after the game was first released in Japan. How the heck did that happen?

@TooWalrus said:

@AngelN7 said:

2014 of course ... nah I'd say even more 1 year after the new Xbox and new PS launch , so late 2014.

Which console do you think it'll be made for? I would imagine it being a 360/PS3 game, even if it's not announced until late 2014.

Is gonna be for the current consoles right? I'm just basing this on the fact that Persona 4 came for the PS2 two years after the release of the PS3 I'm not saying is gonna be for the new consoles just that it will be a game made for "last gen" consoles.

Several years after Persona 4. It's gonna be nothing like it except for the Japanese imagery. Persona 6 will use...Norse? Egyptian? Mayan? No clue.

I'd imagine they'd include an announcement trailer or something with the release of SMT IV.

Makes me wonder whatever happened to this. :(

@Cincaid said:

Makes me wonder whatever happened to this. :(

Probably Shin Megami Tensei IV.

After the new set of console are announced though Persona 5 will still be a PS3 exclusive.

Q2 Next year but just something about the game soon. Playing through P3P for the first time and loving it, hopefully I beat it before Golden comes out

I doubt it will be out before 2014 so late 2013 (Q4) is my guess.

It will be announced when Sony and Microsoft announce the next Playstation and Xbox; the game will still be PS3 and Xbox 360

@FluxWaveZ said:

• Persona 1 (PSP): August 2009
• Persona 3 Portable: August 2009
• Persona 2: Innocent Sin (PSP): October 2010
• Persona 4 Golden: August 2011
• Persona 4 Arena: September 2011
• Persona 2: Eternal Punishment (PSP): February 2012

yep, 4 years of pure waste of time and bullshit

Probably next year. It'll be out by 2014.

Do you remember, back when Sony unveiled the PS3, Atlus had said that a new Shin Megami Tensei game was in the works for the console. I wonder what became of that. Was it recycled in something or completely scrapped ? I'm curious.

@Indiana_Jenkins said:

Whenever the new consoles are out. They have to keep the tradition of releasing Persona RPG's on relatively dead consoles going.

Yet still selling well.

There's already a post about the platform it will be on.

@Zripwud said:

There's already a post about the platform it will be on.

No there isn't, unless you mean the 2 year old 3DS thread.

@JJOR64 said:

Next year as a Wii U exclusive.

Dear god... and I thought SMT IV on 3DS was evil

@FluxWaveZ http://www.giantbomb.com/shin-megami-tensei-persona-5/61-30486/xbox-360/35-533060/#61

When will then be now?

Soon.

When will they show more from the 3DS title? Never.

@Zripwud said:

@FluxWaveZ http://www.giantbomb.com/shin-megami-tensei-persona-5/61-30486/xbox-360/35-533060/#61

Alright... but how is that relevant to this thread?

@FluxWaveZ It's not. That's why I'm saying that there's already a thread about that subject. And I wasn't even directing the post to you. But since you said there wasn't one I thought I'd point you to it. =D

@AndrewB said:

When will then be now?

Soon.

Spaceballs much? =D

@Zripwud: Oh, well thanks for clarifying!

@cheebaking said:

I'm interested how the sales of Arena will impact the development.

Probably not at all because Persona is big in Japan, so either way 5 is coming and the success of 4 in the west should easily be enough to justify its localisation.

No idea, the entire development process of Persona 5 seems a complete mystery.

Early 2031. 
 
That wasn't a typo.

H. Not today...

It's really frustrating to get so little information out of Atlus about P5. Hopefully they'll share some info shortly after Golden's release.

If I had to guess I'd say they originally began work on a PS3 P5 release but scraped it in favour of next-gen tech that Sony must have given them some time in the past 2/3 years (I've heard plenty of rumours that companies have had the tech for quite some time).

This would put P5 in line with all the other next-gen games' dev cycles but would hopefully also explain why we haven't heard anything for so long.