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Wow it really looks as if my willingness to check the net every couple of months for news about P5 has paid off. Or not. It's not as if this tells us anything more than was already out in the public domain.   
 
Sigh, I guess it's the price of being an Atlus junky and a Persona fanboy (Or should those two descriptions be reversed?) we get great, I mean really great games, ones we can chat about at huge length with other true believers and recommend smugly to those other gamers who have had the poor taste to be addicted to lesser titles, genres, what-have-you, but... we have to put up with insane time-lags between title releases, sparse info about said titles. having to buy the games on multiple different platforms and even more than once on the same platform because various release actually offer enough high quality new content for them to come close to qualifying as different games. Hell the main reason I bought my PSP was because P3 portable. I've not yet got a vita and the only game which makes me think that I will is P4 golden. It's like being in a relationship with an increadibly self-absorbed partner. You feel ignored, even abused, you sometimes want to kick them out of your life, but you don't because... well the good times are simply magic and better than those offered by anyone else you know.  
 
Okay end of rant. I'm guessing that we'll be lucky if P5 is in the shops for 2013 and if P4Golden makes it to Europe before the middle of next year, but I'll still be looking for anything remotely connected to the SMT universe. It's the price the series exacts. 

I've recently finished a second playthrough of this game and have to admit that each time I was blown away by just how good it was. However I'm rather worried about the lack of any concrete information about the sequels. It's hard to imagine a better game than this on the PSP, really this title has everything the JRPG enthusiast could possibly want: an excellently crafted battle system of surprising depth and flexibility; numerous interesting locations; a sizeable roster of playable characters, each of whom brings something different to the gameplay making them far more than mere switch in switch out cannon fodder; a well crafted plot which moves in utterly natural manner from minor local issues to those of international crisis and, best of all, brilliantly written leads. Estelle and Joshua are tremendously well fleshed out, their relationship is perfectly scripted and completely believable. Indeed if it weren't for the cliffhanger ending (with no resolution from later games in sight) I'd say this was the best game I've played in the past year. Hell even with that caveat it remains one of the best.

So guys does anyone have any information about release dates? I've scoured the internet for the past couple of days and have nothing which isn't a year or more out of date. It looks very much like this is going to be one of those franchises where the later games simply don't make it overseas and those of us who have consumed the first instalment are going to be left with a horrible case of coitus-interuptus. Oh well, hear's hoping otherwise.