I’m pleased to say they now have that information, so they’re able to evaluate it. As for Steam, while we haven’t been actively releasing Atlus titles on PC, we felt that there was much potential there and put out a direct port of. Sega says it will aggressively pursue PC ports following Persona 4s Steam success. Sega wants to release more Atlus catalog titles across various platforms following the success of the PC port of Persona 4 Golden, Sega Sammy president and CEO Haruki Satomi said during Sega’s financial results briefing on November 6.
Let’s launch Catherine, which then gives the IP owners and business owners at Atlus-who are in their first foray into the PC market-the ability to evaluate the success and how that can fit in for their future road map. Persona 5 is a role-playing game developed and published by Atlus. “Everyone’s really pleased with it we’re pleased with it, it’s performed well and the audience is happy,” he says.
Original story: There have been a fair amount of requests for Persona 5 and/or its definitive edition Persona 5 Royal to come to platforms beyond PlayStation, where the series has lived most of its life. Catherine Classic saw the developer’s surreal puzzle game come to PC for the first time in January, and it’s performed well. Update: Sega has told PC Gamer that the PC listing for Persona 5 Royal was an error, and the company has nothing to announce at this time. More Atlus games could be coming, too, but the ball is currently in Atlus’s court. In a tweet that was a response to a question by a fan, Atlus USA’s John Hardin has confirmed that Persona 5 will indeed not be getting a PC release- such a thing would be highly improbable. Today, PC Gamer has published an interview conducted with Sega’s executive vice president of publishing, John Clark, where the question was raised about future Atlus PC ports.Īccording to Sega, the decision of a PC ports is one for Atlus to make after considering the satisfactory results from the Catherine Classic release. Following its release, Sega had stated that they hoped to have more exciting news to share for Sega/Atlus releases on PC in the future. The first modern PC port of an Atlus game was released with Catherine Classicin January 2019, through Steam.