As much of humanity is now making its way back to the office, Japanese publishers are bowing to tradition and multiplying the promises for 2022, starting with Atlus.
Like every year the famous weekly newspaper Famitsu the long list of greeting cards with everything the video game industry has to offer published by Japanese developers, the chance to see some very inspired graphics, like that from Sonybut also all promises for the next 12 months. Given the many shifts that marked the year 2021 and the birthdays that will be celebrated in 2022 – especially 25 years of the Persona series – we can dream.
Time to do the math
And with this little game Atlus does quite well, because the publisher is initially announcing the good sales figures for Shin Megami Tensei V, the series from which Persona, once a simple spin-off, is precisely derived. After years of waiting, the initially exclusive Nintendo Switch role-playing game has already sold 800,000 times worldwide in less than two months, proof that the mother-of-all series benefits from the worldwide success of Persona 5. In fact, Shin Megami Tensei IV, which was released on 3DS in 2014, hits a high of 600,000 units.
Atlus on the bus
And if Atlus does not fail to remember the arrival of the few already officialized ports (remember that Persona 4 Arena will be released in an Ultimax version and that the unclassifiable 13 Sentinels Aegis Rim will arrive in the spring Yes but on switch), Producer Shinjiro Takada teases an ad that may excite trustworthy gamers:
I choose to make the word “challenge” the one of 2022 by associating it with a future game that will become one of the pillars of Atlus. The development teams are working hard to make it something interesting and satisfying for all types of gamers and I hope you enjoy it.
Nothing allows the hour of the line between Takada’s lines, even if some would be tempted to bring it closer to filing a new mark last November: Project pen, a title mysterious enough to pique our curiosity.
The producer Katsura. his part Hashino does not fail to remember the existence of the role-playing game Project Re Fantasy, announced in … 2016, seen in 2017, and which had “reached an important phase in its development after ups and downs”. Definitely what a tension!