Persona 4 Golden's recent announcement that it's coming on both Xbox One and Xbox Series S/X (and with the Playstation 4 and 5 also being confirmed to get P4G), made me realize that it has reached Skyrim levels of re-releases

[Schorl]

Tell me I'm not the only one who noticed that.

[BigEazy]

You must be drunk.

[Schorl]

BigEazy420 eredeti hozzászólása:

You must be drunk.

No. I just found out that the game in 2023 will have released on platforms from 4 different generations. I'm not kidding. It's Skyrim all over again.

[Schorl]

ValentB eredeti hozzászólása:

Skyrim only released across 3 generations.

Which makes ATLUS outsmart Bethesda at their own game...

[TheRandomGuy]

Let's see....

Persona 4 Releases originally on the Playstation 2 in 2008 around the end of the Playstation 2's lifespan.

Persona 4 Golden Released on the Playstation Vita in 2012, during the tail-end of the PS3 and XB360 era of consoles.

Persona 4 Golden Released on PC / Windows Via Steam in June 2020, during the tail-end of the PS4 / XB1's Lifespan.

It's going to release for Playstation 4, Xbox Series X, and Xbox One in 2023. That's shortly after the end of the Playstation 4 / XB1 Generation of consoles.

So that's around 4 Console Generations solely for Persona 4 Re-Releases.

Persona 3 had 3 main releases

Persona 3 on the Playstation 2, Persona 3 FES on the Playstation 2, and Persona 3 Portable on the Playstation Portable. P3 released in 2006, FES in 2007, Portable in 2009, pretty much all within the Playstation 2's lifespan and the early lifespan of the Playstation 3.

Persona 5 released on PS3 / PS4 in 2016, well into the PS4's lifespan, with Royal releasing in 2019 just on PS4. And P5R's going to re-release in October of 2022 for PC, Xbox and PS5. That's a total of 3 Re-Releases across 2 generations.

So in total,

Persona 3 had 3 re-releases across 2 generations
Persona 4 had 4 Re-Releases across 4 generations
Persona 3 will have 3 Re-Releases across 2 generations.

If we're counting spin-off titles,

Persona 4 had
- Arena in 2012 for PS3 / XB360
- Arena Ultimax in 2013 for Arcades, 2014 for PS3 and Xbox 360, and 2022 for PC, Switch and PS4. That's 2 console generations, excluding the physical Arcade Machine Version.
- Persona Q Shadow of the Labyrinth which is ALSO a Spinoff for Persona 3's cast, releasing in 2014 for the Nintendo 3DS.
- Persona Q New Cinema Labyrinth which is shared by Persona 3 AND Persona 5 for the 3DS in 2018,
- Persona 4 Dancing All Night for the Vita in 2015 and PS4 in 2018, that's 2 console generations.

Persona 3 had
- The aforementioned Persona Q Games, Shadow of the Labyrinth and New Cinema Labyrinth.
- Persona 3 Dancing in Moonlight in 2018 for the PS4.

Persona 5 had
- Persona Q New Cinema Labyrinth
- Persona 5 : Dancing In Starlight (2018, PS4)
- Persona 5 Strikers on PS4, Switch and PC in Feb. 2020 (Feb. 2021 outside of Japan)

Persona 4 has the most spin-off games at a staggering 5 spinoff games across 2 console generations, compared to Persona 3's 3 spin-offs (2 of which are shared) across 2 generations, and 5's 3 spin-offs across 2 Nintendo Generations (3DS to Switch) and 1 Playstation Generation.

For Comparison, Skyrim initially released on PC, PS3 and XB360 in 2011, PS4 and XB1 in 2016, Switch in 2017, and PS5 / XBSX in 2021. That's 4 Re-Releases across 3 PS/XB generations and a first-time re-release onto a Nintendo platform.

Persona 4 ties with Skyrim for re-releases, but it also has 5 spin-off games to go with it.

[Milkless Tea]

Resident Evil 4 might have it beat

[Schorl]

ValentB eredeti hozzászólása:

Milkless Tea eredeti hozzászólása:

Resident Evil 4 might have it beat

GTA San Andreas.

Nah, he's correct. RE4 has even released on the Wii.

[Schorl]

And now it's also coming to Switch. Dovahkiin moment indeed.

[Schorl]

ValentB eredeti hozzászólása:

DimitrisYellingPlaya eredeti hozzászólása:

And now it's also coming to Switch. Dovahkiin moment indeed.

Coming alongside others on 21 October. Not exactly Skyrim.

Ehem. You talk about Persona 5, not 4.

[Maleficus]

Skyrim is a main series game that has beed released not only in multiple gens but on most existing platforms aswell. Persona MAIN series games were only avaliable on Sony's platforms until P4G release here in 2020 and only now they announced P5 release outside of Playstation. How can you even compare Skyrim and Persona series?! It's irrelevant in how many generations a game exists if it's not avaliable to majority of ppl. Let me remind you that Sony ditched backwards compatibility almost completely and as a result tons of games were buried in PS2 and PS3 generation, and P4G was buried along with PS Vita which died due to Sony's inability to support the console. If anything Atlus and Sega did whatever they could so that as few ppl as possible can play Persona's main series being Sony exclusive when it doesn't make sense, not adding localization support besides English and some of Asian region. French, German, Spanish and Italian first appeared in P5R!!!

And only now after the fans been begging them for about a decade to release games outside of Playstation, only now Atlus, Sega or whoever reilise how big Persona is and that they've been holding the franchise back. Announcement of the trilogy on Xbox game show was basically the biggest thing there.

[Schorl]

Maleficus eredeti hozzászólása:

Skyrim is a main series game that has beed released not only in multiple gens but on most existing platforms aswell. Persona MAIN series games were only avaliable on Sony's platforms until P4G release here in 2020 and only now they announced P5 release outside of Playstation. How can you even compare Skyrim and Persona series?! It's irrelevant in how many generations a game exists if it's not avaliable to majority of ppl. Let me remind you that Sony ditched backwards compatibility almost completely and as a result tons of games were buried in PS2 and PS3 generation, and P4G was buried along with PS Vita which died due to Sony's inability to support the console. If anything Atlus and Sega did whatever they could so that as few ppl as possible can play Persona's main series being Sony exclusive when it doesn't make sense, not adding localization support besides English and some of Asian region. French, German, Spanish and Italian first appeared in P5R!!!

And only now after the fans been begging them for about a decade to release games outside of Playstation, only now Atlus, Sega or whoever reilise how big Persona is and that they've been holding the franchise back. Announcement of the trilogy on Xbox game show was basically the biggest thing there.

Did you have a stroke while writing all that?
Reminder: Persona 4 came out on PS2 in 2008. The same version came out on PS4 years later in digital form. In the meantime, Persona 4 Golden came for Vita in 2012. One re-release. In 2020 it came on Steam. 2nd re-release. And in 2023 we're getting a third one for all the other platforms. Got it? That's what we're comparing.

[Maleficus]

DimitrisYellingPlaya eredeti hozzászólása:

Maleficus eredeti hozzászólása:

Skyrim is a main series game that has beed released not only in multiple gens but on most existing platforms aswell. Persona MAIN series games were only avaliable on Sony's platforms until P4G release here in 2020 and only now they announced P5 release outside of Playstation. How can you even compare Skyrim and Persona series?! It's irrelevant in how many generations a game exists if it's not avaliable to majority of ppl. Let me remind you that Sony ditched backwards compatibility almost completely and as a result tons of games were buried in PS2 and PS3 generation, and P4G was buried along with PS Vita which died due to Sony's inability to support the console. If anything Atlus and Sega did whatever they could so that as few ppl as possible can play Persona's main series being Sony exclusive when it doesn't make sense, not adding localization support besides English and some of Asian region. French, German, Spanish and Italian first appeared in P5R!!!

And only now after the fans been begging them for about a decade to release games outside of Playstation, only now Atlus, Sega or whoever reilise how big Persona is and that they've been holding the franchise back. Announcement of the trilogy on Xbox game show was basically the biggest thing there.

Did you have a stroke while writing all that?
Reminder: Persona 4 came out on PS2 in 2008. The same version came out on PS4 years later in digital form. In the meantime, Persona 4 Golden came for Vita in 2012. One re-release. In 2020 it came on Steam. 2nd re-release. And in 2023 we're getting a third one for all the other platforms. Got it? That's what we're comparing.

First of all, there was no P4 or P4G on PS4 what are you talking about? P4 was ported on PS3 and it's not backwards compatible on PS4. P4G was just announced for PS4 and we don't even know when it's coming yet.

Point I'm making is why even compare amount of re-releases across gens because say TES in addition to being re-released across different gens was also expanding its playerbase by releasing on other platforms while Persona was not doing that and that is more important for a game's growth. GTA 5 exists across 3 gens so what are you gonna compare Persona with GTA 5 now?

[Schorl]

Maleficus eredeti hozzászólása:

DimitrisYellingPlaya eredeti hozzászólása:

Did you have a stroke while writing all that?
Reminder: Persona 4 came out on PS2 in 2008. The same version came out on PS4 years later in digital form. In the meantime, Persona 4 Golden came for Vita in 2012. One re-release. In 2020 it came on Steam. 2nd re-release. And in 2023 we're getting a third one for all the other platforms. Got it? That's what we're comparing.

First of all, there was no P4 or P4G on PS4 what are you talking about? P4 was ported on PS3 and it's not backwards compatible on PS4. P4G was just announced for PS4 and we don't even know when it's coming yet.

Point I'm making is why even compare amount of re-releases across gens because say TES in addition to being re-released across different gens was also expanding its playerbase by releasing on other platforms while Persona was not doing that and that is more important for a game's growth. GTA 5 exists across 3 gens so what are you gonna compare Persona with GTA 5 now?

Yes, P4 vanilla was available on PS online store for PS4. The same goes for Persona 3 FES.
GTA 5 is more of a RE4 case I'd say.

[Maleficus]

Sure bro, whatever you say.