I think the most likely candidate is a new title in the main series of SMT, which is to say a self contained follow up to Nocturne, which is the latest non-spinoff SMT.

PS3 and PSP SMT projects have been rumoured for yonks, so it'll be on one of those I'll bet.


Persona 4 (PS2) is coming out on December 9th yeah Alimo. Got it pre-ordered. :D

Well I wasn't too far off I guess, the game is a sequel to the Phoenix Wright/Pokemon hybrid Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs The Soulless Army! Awesome! :D

It's coming out in october in japan and fingers are thoroughly crossed for stateside release. Famitsu scans here!

Man it looks really really good! I love the 30s style of these games.

edit: Oh yeah and it's for PS2 of course, for those of you sensitive to that sort of news you might wanna.. pour a drink or something.

At this point it's just gonna cost a fortune to make, take ages to come out and be dumbed down and tamed for the general public to mistake it for the next Final Fantasy. Bask in the bizarreness that nichéd, low cost development allows! Tit monsters and occult mindfucks for the win. :)

Persona is the most accessible of all of the SMT series and I think we'll see that franchise on the PS3 before long. This wasn't gonna be on there for a while, it's just too weird for the average consumer.

Just because you say something is one way doesn't make them so, you know. SMT are niché titles that only really have had a good run in japan, even though Persona is moving out into more mainstream territory. To my knowledge, Nocturne was the first true SMT title we got, and that was 2004!

Developing for 360/PS3 is waaaay more costly than PS2 even if you just take license costs into consideration. And sure, if you reckon Spectral Force lives up to people's lofty "next gen" expectations enough for sales to warrant that cost then more power to the likes of you.

The truth is that a ton of people have PS2s and these games look absolutely brilliant on that platform. License costs are low, distribution costs are low and it's a platform under much less scrutiny content wise, which is why they get away with all the smuttyness.

It's not their mistake, you just seem annoyed that you can't buy them in higher resolution and in another box. Get over it, is my advice to you, because you're just missing out on better RPGs than what you've been playing in HD so far.

This generational thinking is annoying me to be honest. I thought games had earned more credibility than to be discriminated based on platform gaps. Gaming becoming an accepted art form my ass if they can't even deal with something like this.

Well I think they could easily afford it, but it has to sell. Looking at japan, PS3 hasn't taken off in the way it has to to warrant a huge budget SMT endeavour, and the 360 isn't selling at all.

For the titles to have a shot in the west, the audience has to be receptive, and they just aren't. Look at sales of SMT titles in the west on the PS2 even when that was the hottest thing around. They just aren't accessible enough.

Persona has gotten a bigger breakthrough for sure, and I think it's safe to assume that P5 is a PS3 title, but Devil Summoner? The thing is a 1930s detective story with weird cultural references and demonology and themes deeply rooted in asian mysticism. There's just no way in a billion years it was going on the 360, and the PS3 is still commercial suicide.

When PS3 sells properly, when there's a base for properly japanese niché RPGs on it, SMT games will migrate.

Yeah, I didn't use to hope for PS3 success.. I had traces of Sony hate pretty long after the whole Saturn/Dreamcast malarky. But man, when I see what the lack of a strong hardcore japanese platform is doing to the presence of genres I desperately want them to get back on their feet again.

The RPGs that jump to the 360 do so to have a shot at selling globally (and probably to make enough money to even warrant their existance on next gen platforms in the first place). Look at Enchanted Arms, Eternal Sonata and FF13. See a trend there? They're treated differently based on region/platform.

Exclusivity still holds on FF13 in japan, and meanwhile ES and EA had PS3 versions IN JAPAN later on to increase sales.

I know everyone wanna wake up one morning and see the 360 become a PS2 with another logo on it, and I don't really know why anymore since I dropped my platform bias alltogether. It sometimes seems to me that people picked a platform and wanted it to be just like the other platform they didn't pick, when the other platform would've served them better to begin with. Of course usually things don't work out that way but this time Sony cocked up their PS3 business so hard from the start with a bajillion USB ports and sockets nobody used and a price tag that could kill a colony of burly Arnie sized men.

Regardless, much like Killzone 2 will never have FPS fans migrating from the 360 to the PS3 or even have them admitting that it looks sort of nice, likewise Sony's real audience aren't going to be easily convinced either. They will start buying the PS3 when the price is right (and if you look at some regions it seems people can stomach what they have to shell out for it now) and they'll expect it to provide the kind of experiences they've held out for.

Much like Nintendo has never really shaken their kiddy image despite having some of the hands down best hardcore titles around, the 360 will always be home to the multiplaying Gears of War crowd first and foremost, especially in the west where the platform is actually selling. This is why the 360 will never compell Atlus to invest in a next gen main series entry to SMT.

I wouldn't rule out a 360 Persona 5 though, because japanese pop culture is actually fairly embraced by us westerners too. Ubi did after all make a Naruto game.

As for the really dark juicy SMT stuff however, I wouldn't hold my breath. They'll rise in resolution in proportion to PS3 popularity I think.

Oh and Wii versions of the series is a strong possibility too I think. Hell, I'm ultimately putting almost all my faith in the Wii for the very survival of games with wacky japanese appeal. With the impending NEED for high budget games to sell worldwide I can't imagine anyone will take any risks to rub anyone the wrong way.

@ everyone

Blah, I apologize if I'm being difficult today, I've had such a crap day. Try to weave respect and consideration and humbleness into my posts if they're lacking. :|