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Persona 6 is a role-playing video game developed by Atlus and is technically the seventh game in the Persona series, which is part of the Megami Tensei franchise. The game was released for PlayStation in Japan on January 11, 2024, and was released worldwide on September 1st the same year.

The game, like the other games in the series, takes place in modern-day Japan. This time around, the game follows a young transfer student from an unspecified town that moves from Osaka to the suburbs due to their father getting a new job. The student, usually referred to as simply "Green", attempts to adjust to their new life and tries to start a better life, due to being rather bored with most things. Along the way, they make many new friends and uncover a horrifying plot that places all of Japan at risk.

The game is similar to the previous installments. The player takes control of the main playable character, usually called Green, as they attend school and go through their regular lives, which is usually interrupted by supernatural events and combat. The game features day-night and weather cycles as well as jobs and events Green can get/trigger. Depending on what the player does, Green can raise their stats and gain items while doing this. The player can also choose to spend time with different characters, with different benefits being gained if characters like you enough. One of these benefits is romancing different characters, with almost every named character being a possible love interest.

Along with the regular everyday life, there are also supernatural events, which includes dungeon crawling. Dungeons in the game can be found in a place known as .New (dot new), which is a parallel world inside of a person's computer that manifests someone's negative aspects into a being. The .New world also contains specific story-related dungeons named Databanks, which are similar to Palaces from the previous installment, being massive dungeons that are usually led by a boss.

As with previous titles, the game features turn-based combat against creatures known as Shadows, which are warped entities that manifest all of a person's negative attributes. In combat, the player is able to summon their own personal spirit known as their Persona, which has mystical abilities, or they can simply battle the enemies themselves using different weapons in their arsenal (which disappear in the real world). If a Shadow is weak enough, the player is able to commence "Bargaining", which is similar to a Hold Up from Persona 5. The bargaining can either be the Shadow bargaining with you or vice versa. If the Shadow is bargaining with you, you can gain extra items or yen in exchange for not gaining experience points and if you are bargaining with a Shadow, you start a dialogue with it in an attempt to make it switch sides.

The fusion system also makes a return from previous installments, where the character can sacrifice two of their Personas and forge a new one in their place.

Main article: List of Persona 6 characters

The game takes place in the suburbs of Tokyo and follows a group of high school students who gain the ability to summon supernatural beings known as Personas, which are manifestations of their inner desires and wants. All of the main characters attend a school called Tenko Academy. There are a few other locations the player can visit, including a few other, much larger towns which have cinemas and much more. They are also able to enter a place known as .New, which they can access from their computer and find people's "Databanks", which are ruled over by very powerful manifestations of a person's worst parts.

The main character of the game is a mostly silent protagonist of ambiguous gender who the player can name anything they wish, though they are commonly referred to as Green, after their tendency to only wear a green jacket. Along the way, they also encounter students who are accidentally sucked into .New and gain Personas of their own, aiding the protagonist on their journey to stop the corrupt forces of Japan.

Main article: Persona 6 Recap

Like the other games in the series, Persona 6 was developed by P-Studio, with development of the game beginning shortly after Persona 5 Royal's release. Like the previous installment, development of Persona 6 lasted about five years and during that time a number of ideas were considered and scrapped.

In the first year of the game's development, many ideas came up, such as including the lesser-known Megami Tensei character YHVH as the main antagonist or several different ideas for an eighth protagonist that were all scrapped in favor of the character Beatrice.

A good chunk of the game's system was recycled from Persona 5 and Persona 5 Royal in an attempt to cut down on development time. Ironically, the many changes that had to be made to the system ended up creating more development time than expected.

Another thing that added to the game's development time was rendering the Personas, as it took quite some time with the previous installment and redesigning and rerendering the Personas took just as long as last time.

After the success of the previous installment, it was very difficult to try and come up with a story just as good as it. The game's story more or less floated around for a bit, with even the main theme of the game not being clear for quite some time.

However, after the design of the main protagonist was finished, the developers realized the perfect theme for their game: technology advancement and how the world is reacting to it. Due to this, the protagonist of the game was made to have a reliance on technology that they slowly overcome throughout the game. The main antagonist of the game also relied on technology, using nuclear weapons in order to accomplish his goals.

In the game, the character's Personas are meant to symbolize a certain part of their character (the only two this doesn't apply to are the main protagonist and the mascot Seth).

Kaori Fujio's Persona, Morgause, is meant to be a queen but is often overlooked, symbolizing how Kaori's ego makes her believe she is more important than she is.

Eiji Ishimura's Persona, Don Quixote, a mad man that believes he is a knight, symbolizes Eiji's inner anger and his outer face of a happy-go-lucky person.

Beatrice von Housen's Persona, Tripitaka, a monk who travels the land in search for enlightenment, symbolizes Beatrice's pride in her knowledge.

Goro Masuya's Persona, Heck Thomas, a law martial that was feared due to how determined he was to kill criminals, is symbolic of how Goro's tough nature hides a strong sense of justice.

Eiko Kumada's Persona, Ching Shih, a prostitute turned pirate, symbolizes how Eiko outgrew her past and forged her own destiny in life.

And Kazumi Oshio's Persona, Mulan, a woman who dressed as a man in order to join the war, is symbolic of how, despite dressing as a girl, Kazumi is incredibly tough when he wants to be.

The game has several DLC released for it. The first three DLC released were referred to as the Persona Pack DLC, which were three costume packs that allowed the characters in the game to dress as the characters from the previous games. A second costume pack based on the game Catherine was released shortly afterward. The costumes were as follows:

A full DLC pack was released around a year after the game's release. The DLC pack, dubbed Technological Madhouse, includes a new mode in the Velvet Room referred to as "Persona Royale" where Igor allows the player to challenge and possibly capture several boss-level Personas, all of which belonged to the previous protagonists of the series (such as Io, Jiraiya, and Captain Kid).

In addition to this, the DLC also adds Persona 6's Ultimate Boss. Or rather, Ultimate Bosses, as when the protagonist captures all of the Personas from a certain game (3, 4, or 5), Igor will summon a Persona user made of energy that takes the form of the protagonist of the game. When all the Persona 3 Personas are captured, a clone of Makoto Yuki will appear and so on. When the Ultimate Bosses are defeated, they transform into the protagonist's main Persona, which is instantly given to the Persona 6 protagonist as a reward for defeating them.

Technological Madhouse also includes the three costume packs for the previous Persona games as well as including the entire soundtracks of Personas 3, 4, and 5. The player is able to listen to the songs from inside the protagonist's room, where they can play them from the computer in their room.

Identifying the user categories of an IoT solution can make your life easier while making design decisions of many sorts to focus on what is important. In design thinking, we call these user categories personas. Design thinking’s personas building is a very powerful and well-established tool for designing user experiences.

Besides user experiences (UX), personas can also be used to design systems and solution architectures. This makes this tool of design thinking useful not only to UX/UI designers but also to architects and developers. For the Internet of Things (IoT) domain, we have identified six types of personas. With these six personas, one can identify user needs in terms of system functionality, data, and information, but also population information and personality traits. Personas can then be used in different design phases, for example, defining the UI, defining the right data store for data, etc.

For illustration purposes, we will be using two examples: one from the consumer goods industry – a connected coffee machine (connected product) and one from the industrial domain – a connected chemicals’ facility (connected operations). The typical personas we encounter are listed and described below. Their traits are:

Note: the names of the personas are meant to describe their needs from an IoT platform perspective, and they are not coupled to specific occupations or functions. In real life we might meet people that fit in more than one type of the personas discussed here. This effort to group those personas is based on collected observations from the field and it is not a scientific grouping effort.

Consumer goods industry: a connected coffee machine owner at a bar who wants to get notified and prioritize fixing it in case the machine is malfunctioning.

Industrial domain: an operations engineer at a chemicals’ facility that needs to know if the health of a pipe is in critical state (red) or not (green), in real operations time while moving towards the asset.

Consumer goods industry: These personas in real life can be:

[Asset operator] a connected coffee machine owner at a bar who wants to know how much the daily coffee consumption is or when the machine is due for maintenance, and

[Supervisor] a connected coffee machine manufacturer’s marketing & operations officer who wants to know how much the monthly coffee consumption per region is or the amount of reported hardware failures in the past six months.

Industrial domain: These personas in real life can be:

[Asset operator] an operations shift engineer at a chemicals’ facility who wants to know the latest/current measurement of a vibration sensor of an engine or the average vibration value of the past 24 hours, and

[Supervisor] an industrial process manager who wants to know the latest/current KPI value (e.g. factory uptime) or the annual KPI values for benchmarking one factory or multiple factories for comparison or standardization purposes.

Consumer goods industry: a connected coffee machine hardware designer that investigates timely events, such as fluctuations in temperature or pressure measurements within a time period to identify hardware module failures of a specific device or a set of devices.

Industrial domain: a maintenance engineer at a chemicals’ facility that investigates sensor readings that were taken prior to and during a reported pipe leakage that led to shutting the facility down for a few hours, to pinpoint the root cause of this downtime.

Consumer goods industry: a market analyst of the connected coffee machine manufacturer that tries to identify correlations between reported hardware failures and customer churn, or to predict coffee consumption per country, price and season.

Industrial domain: a process analyst at a chemicals’ facility that analyzes historical data of engines (e.g. multiple sensor reading types, maintenance logs and schedules, errors and alerts, factory downtime root cause analyses, ambience sensor readings, etc.) in search of identifying patterns of behavior, or to create an engine model to be used for predicting Remaining Useful Life of assets in real-time operations.

Consumer goods industry: an external auditor checking for GDPR compliance of the connected coffee machine application, e.g. confirming data deletion of customers that no longer receive the service.

Industrial domain: an internal health, security & safety analyst at a chemicals’ facility that investigates safety related events, e.g. an accident or a leakage.

Consumer goods industry: an operator of the connected coffee machine application, e.g. responsible for provisioning and deprovisioning coffee machines, and defining and rolling out configuration updates, such as new coffee brewing recipes.

Industrial domain: a field engineer at a chemicals’ facility that installs a new pressure sensor on a valve and registers e.g. its physical location, the name of the organization the sensor will be serviced by, the name of the manufacturer and the asset ID the sensor is attached to.

Based on the traits of personas we can make decisions on the project lifecycle, UI design, or the system requirements. It’s possible to then prioritize deliverables based on how great the population of the relevant personas is. It’s also an option to then define how much out-of-the-box versus custom-built building blocks need to be included in the solution design by how tech-savvy the audience is.

A recent study by Forbes Insights, "The Growth CMO: Personas and Potential," conducted in association with SAP and gyro, sheds light on the role of the CMO by clustering them into six distinct "personas," each one distilling a particular approach to the job.

The study is based on a global survey of 318 CMOs and senior marketing executives, and it uses a variety of statistical techniques to group CMOs into these personas, which illustrate the most typical ways in which CMOs can succeed and struggle in their efforts to drive growth.

Personas are evidence-based portraits of typical CMOs one is likely to encounter in real life. The core of a CMO persona is a combination of responsibilities, personality traits and approach to key elements of the job, all assessed in a standardized way.

The 6 personas:

The Strategic Guru (21% of CMOs): likely to be a longtime marketer with strategy-oriented responsibilities. He or she is an adept networker and most likely runs marketing at a large company where mastering process and influencing colleagues are paramount.

The Dynamic Orchestrator (34% of CMOs): Surrounds himself/herself with capable people, performs well under pressure, and achieves high scores on agility despite having a big personality and desire for control.

The Selective Defender (25% of CMOs): Selectively picks his/her battles to defend the marketing turf. This person is less ambitious and more risk-averse than average. He or she has more limited responsibilities and little to do with corporate strategy.

The Conventional Coach (2% of CMOs): Carries out static plans under rigid controls for large, slow-growth companies. This person has a narrowly defined function and tends to engage less in social media and e-commerce. He or she is pressured to demonstrate marketing ROI and often clashes with other functions over budgets, targets and deadlines.

The Demand Driver (3% of CMOs): Typically comes from a sales background and has CRM and lead-generation responsibilities. He or she scores poorly in technology use and talent recruitment but is relatively strong when it comes to coordinating activities across channels and touchpoints.

The Untapped Potential CMO (16% of CMOs): Faces not only a revenue growth mandate but also a shrinking budget. This CMO traditionally works in slow-growth companies with weak corporate cultures and talent pipelines. He or she also reports tight internal controls and little agility to adapt marketing plans.

Like people, each persona has weaknesses as well as strengths. Some are constrained by the industries or types of companies they operate in. The personas are also path-dependent; they evolved a certain way and therefore aren’t able to shift at will into a different mode of operating. A persona is difficult for a person to step out of, but for a committed self-improver, it is also not destiny.

Each of the six personas distills a particular personality with specific biases and a deep-rooted approach to the job. There may be no single individual who tirelessly embodies all the qualities of the "growth CMO." (In fact, only one in eight of the survey respondents cleared all the hurdles necessary to be classified as a growth CMO by this study.) However, it may be possible to create that person in the aggregate by building a team of individuals with different personas. Thus, these personas can serve as a guide to help assemble a well-balanced marketing team.

Some of the differences in style among personas may simply be cultural adaptations. Dynamic Orchestrator and Strategic Guru CMOs lead marketing teams that perform similarly. Yet one group tends to adapt better to individualistic, Western cultures, where big personalities thrive, while the other is better suited to more consensus-based, emerging-market contexts. Yet growth CMOs are just as common among Strategic Gurus as they are among Dynamic Orchestrators.

Persona 6 may only be a twinkle in Atlus's eye and we already can't stop talking about it. With Atlus riding high on the momentum of Persona 5: Royal and focusing on releasing Persona 5: Strikers in February, a direct Persona 5 sequel likely isn't high on the studio's priority list. But can you blame us for doing a bit of harmless speculating? Persona 5 is one of the most beloved JRPGs of the generation, a masterful culmination of the series' best elements with a modern polish and unmistakably cool style.

With that latest masterpiece now just past its fourth birthday, we're starting to hear whispers and pick up a few scattered clues of a sequel. There's still nothing official from Atlus, but it's only a matter of time before we get a reveal trailer. For now, read on to find out why we're so confident a sequel to Persona 5 is coming, and for everything we know about Persona 6.

The short answer is yes. It's probably already in the early stages of development. In an interview with Dengeki Magazine (via Segment Next) from October 2019, Atlus dev Kazuhisa Wada had this to say about the Persona series' future: “We are working on mid-to-long term plan, including new numbered entries, so that fans can continue to enjoy the Persona series this year”.

It's hard to perceive "new numbered entries" as meaning anything other than Persona 6, so even though it hasn't been formally announced by Atlus, it seems a near-certainty that a Persona 5 sequel is in the works.

However, even if the quote from Wada was somehow misinterpreted or mistranslated, it seems incredibly unlikely for Atlus to let one of its most successful IPs die with a game as popular as Persona 5. For that reason alone, Persona 6 seems an inevitability. For now, it's not a question of if it's coming, but rather when it's coming.

Considering Persona 5 went into full production in 2011 and released five years later, don't expect to see Persona 6 for at least a few years. Of course, one game's development isn't always the surest indicator of another's, but it's foolishly optimistic regardless to assume Persona 6 could release before 2022.

Persona games, and games made by Atlus more broadly, are notoriously lengthy and extraordinarily polished. That means more developers are needed to perfect each game's many systems, more time is needed to write and develop the game, and ultimately fans need to be patient in return for a reliably satisfying product.

That said, there are reasons to be optimistic about its development time.

As pointed out by a Reddit user, there are variables to consider when comparing Persona 6's development schedule to Persona 5's. For one, Atlus parent company Index Corporation filed for bankruptcy right smack-dab in the middle of Persona 5's development. It's very likely that the financial situation at Atlus was affected, and likewise Persona 5's development.

At the time, Forbes even floated the question of whether Atlus would be sold or liquidated, which would've almost-surely throw Persona 5's entire development into a state of serious uncertainty.

There's also the possibility that Persona 6 will run on the same engine as Persona 5, which could potentially speed up development. Though on that point, it's pretty much guaranteed that Persona 5 launches on the PS5, meaning it's not a certainty that it runs on the same engine as Persona 5.

Persona 5 is already a massive game. In a poll of 1,500 players, it was revealed that on average, it takes gamers 97 hours just to beat the main campaign (via How Long to Beat). Compare that to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild at 49 hours, and The Witcher 3 at 51 hours.

With that in mind, it's extraordinary (if not surprising) that Atlus plans on expanding the Persona universe with a sequel even bigger than Persona 5. Back in 2017, Atlus went on a hiring spree and took the space on some job postings to talk about Persona 6. In one posting (via GamingBolt), Atlus executive and former director Naoto Hiraoka wrote about the need to exceed fans' expectations after Persona 5 inspired ubiquitous praises.

"Thanks to the large amount of support we received for Persona 5, we have gotten a sense of accomplishment. But we can’t stop there. When we created Persona 4, there was pressure that it had to exceed Persona 3. Now, we will have to create a 6 which exceeds 5. However, exceeding 5 will be difficult with the current staff. I would like to surpass this tall hurdle with everyone who joins us in this recruitment. The workplace is perfect for those who want a creative challenge when it comes to bringing games to the world."

Despite our protests, Persona 5 is still a PlayStation exclusive. But there's a good chance Persona 6 will share the love with other platforms when it eventually releases. For a handful of reasons, I'd say the Switch - or whatever Nintendo console is current when Persona 6 launches - is our best bet for a Persona 6 multiplatform release.

One of those reasons is that Persona 5: Scramble has already launched on Switch in Japan, setting a glaring precedent for Atlus to port over its predecessor and with any hope, Persona 6. And then there's the fact that Joker is now a playable character in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, a sign of Atlus and Nintendo's amiable relationship. Perhaps most importantly, Atlus has a history going back to the 80s developing games for Nintendo platforms, with Persona 5 Scramble, Tokyo Mirage Sessions FE Encore, and Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth being the most recent examples.

Just last month, Atlus released a survey asking fans whether they'd want different Atlus games - including Persona 5 - ported to the Switch. It's hard to believe they need a survey to know the answer to that question, but it's yet another sign of Atlus's willingness to work with Nintendo to reach a larger audience for their games.

Color: Pink

Theme: Worst Fears

Setting: Sort of like a city-like town. Like half Tokyo and half Inaba

Music: Techno

Plot: After witnessing the murders of her parents, the main protagonist is sent to live with her aunt (mom's sister). On her first day of school, the hero meets a delinquent girl (the Junpei/Yosuke/Ryuji of the group) and her male friend. Also going around is a trendy game called "Worry Not Game" where people buy these toy wristbands called "Breakers" and follow the rules to see what happens next. Same time as the game becoming popular, mysterious deaths began happening and each corpse had their left hands missing.

The hero, the delinquent, and her friend buy breakers for themselves and play the game. At midnight, they have to have their worst fear in their minds and then put on the breakers. Next day at school, the hero and the delinquent suddenly get sent to a world there are red doors everywhere. They then run into a anthropomorphic wolf as well as a group of shadows. The hero sees her breaker glowing and rips it off her arm as it summons her persona.

That's about part of it

Party: For the party, it's gonna have 9 characters. Fun thing, seven of them represents one of the Seven Deadly Sins. The reason they represent that sin is because of their worst fears.

Girl Delinquent/Wrath: She's always had anger issues and her friend was the only one who could calm her down. With her friend now dead due to the Worry Not Game, she has no one to stop her from causing trouble

Disabled Boy/Sloth: After losing his ability to walk, his mother became overly protective and started making him not do things that he's still capable of doing, thus making him feel like a can't do anything but he wants to at least try to do things once again.

Muscular Guy/Envy: Growing up, kids always avoided him and never wanted to talk to him. He never understood why nobody would befriend him. He has tried many things to have people notice him like gain muscule, search latest trends, etc. He then thought the best way for people to notice him is by becoming part of the student council and eventually became chairman of the disciplinary committee, only to make people now scared of him.

Female Model/Gluttony: She has always loved sweets and has a habit of overeating, but she's forced to not eat as much to keep a perfect body for modelling. She wants to do what she wishes, but she also wants to keep her modelling job, to provide for her family.

Popular Guy/Greed: Back in middle school, he was a otaku, used to wear glasses, and was overweight. Kids called him a weirdo because of his appearance and likes. When he began high school, he got into shape, secretly hides manga and a handheld console in his bag, wore contacts even though they barely work. He wanted everyone to forget who he uses to be.

Friendly Boy/Lust: He realized that he was gay during elementary school. His mother and father had differences when it came to raising him. His mother supported him and his choices, but his father wanted and expected him to be what he wanted, that then lead to their divorce and the mother got custody. Later on, his mother died and his father then got custody. Knowing about his son's sexuality, his abused and would lock him in his room. He would try to get help from other people to stop his father's abuse, but ends up backfiring.

Smart Girl/Pride: Everyone that has tried talking to her have all been pushed away by her. The reason she rejects interacting with people is because she doesn't want to be sad when they eventually die. In elementary school, she was best friends with another girl. One day, the two girls went to go play in a abandoned house. Her friend then fallen and died. After the loss of her friend, she didn't want anymore friends so she wouldn't worry about losing them

So I was thinking if places the series could go, and new concepts that could be explored and I came up with a bit of an idea. I really want to know what people think and if they have anything to ad or ideas of their own. So anyway here we go:

Protagonist is a regular exchange student like in P4. Just going to stay with family for whatever reason (the reason to be revealed later possibly) and winds up in a new school with new faces. Soon after arriving he notices people around town acting strange and asks new pals what's up with everyone. Turn out the town is "haunted" and people are having crazy nightmares and getting no sleep causing lots of "accidents" and bad things to happen around town. When new best pal starts having these dreams, protagonist and friends decide to try some spooky ritual they found on the internet and they somehow manage to enter the dream world, where they are forced to face the nightmare (a strong shadow feeding off of peoples fears). In finding the resolve to face their fears and protect their new friends, protagonist awakens to their persona, and because they are in a dream their gear changes to what the need to feel brave. I picture protagonist gets knight armor and maybe his persona could be King Arthur. New pals see this as well and eventually awaken too once they face/gain the resolve to face their fear. Maybe one is dressed as a ninja, or samurai, or solider, etc. Each dream could be based off of things people are afraid of, like the first one maybe the school is strict so the friend is afraid of failing and disappointing everyone, so the friend see it as a scary place like a prison or something. (I need more ideas for bad dreams that people's fears could manifest as). So game progression goes like: find a bad dream, go tonite location at night, defeat nightmare, free people from being haunted. The deadline would be it takes a certain amount of time for the accidents to start happening once a new bad dream starts. Eventually the "dream team" realizes they can't get rid of every fear, so they get to the bottom of things. In doing so they wind up in protagonist's nightmare, just a black empty void with nothing but him in it. His fear is being alone and losing his new friends, and the gang discovers protagonist was abandoned by his parents when he was young and his foster parents basically ditched him in this town with his last remaining family who didn't want him anyway (but grows to love him by the end of the game). Friends band together to bring him out of the nightmare and his persona becomes Excalibur because of his newfound strength. Somehow they find out a evil God was trying to make people scared so they would blindly come to him for salvation. From here on its classic "use friendship to save the day" with the lesson being that some fear is good, like the fear of losing a loved one and so on.

So I still need s mascot character, some more bad dreams to visit and party member ideas/designs but that's what I got. What do you think? Any ideas of your own? I would love to discuss with people, I don't have any persona friends hahaha. Thanks for the read!

Persona 6 may only be a twinkle in Atlus's eye and we already can't stop talking about it. With Atlus riding high on the momentum of Persona 5: Royal and focusing on releasing Persona 5: Strikers in February, a direct Persona 5 sequel likely isn't high on the studio's priority list. But can you blame us for doing a bit of harmless speculating? Persona 5 is one of the most beloved JRPGs of the generation, a masterful culmination of the series' best elements with a modern polish and unmistakably cool style.

With that latest masterpiece now just past its fourth birthday, we're starting to hear whispers and pick up a few scattered clues of a sequel. There's still nothing official from Atlus, but it's only a matter of time before we get a reveal trailer. For now, read on to find out why we're so confident a sequel to Persona 5 is coming, and for everything we know about Persona 6.

The short answer is yes. It's probably already in the early stages of development. In an interview with Dengeki Magazine (via Segment Next) from October 2019, Atlus dev Kazuhisa Wada had this to say about the Persona series' future: “We are working on mid-to-long term plan, including new numbered entries, so that fans can continue to enjoy the Persona series this year”.

It's hard to perceive "new numbered entries" as meaning anything other than Persona 6, so even though it hasn't been formally announced by Atlus, it seems a near-certainty that a Persona 5 sequel is in the works.

However, even if the quote from Wada was somehow misinterpreted or mistranslated, it seems incredibly unlikely for Atlus to let one of its most successful IPs die with a game as popular as Persona 5. For that reason alone, Persona 6 seems an inevitability. For now, it's not a question of if it's coming, but rather when it's coming.

Considering Persona 5 went into full production in 2011 and released five years later, don't expect to see Persona 6 for at least a few years. Of course, one game's development isn't always the surest indicator of another's, but it's foolishly optimistic regardless to assume Persona 6 could release before 2022.

Persona games, and games made by Atlus more broadly, are notoriously lengthy and extraordinarily polished. That means more developers are needed to perfect each game's many systems, more time is needed to write and develop the game, and ultimately fans need to be patient in return for a reliably satisfying product.

That said, there are reasons to be optimistic about its development time.

As pointed out by a Reddit user, there are variables to consider when comparing Persona 6's development schedule to Persona 5's. For one, Atlus parent company Index Corporation filed for bankruptcy right smack-dab in the middle of Persona 5's development. It's very likely that the financial situation at Atlus was affected, and likewise Persona 5's development.

At the time, Forbes even floated the question of whether Atlus would be sold or liquidated, which would've almost-surely throw Persona 5's entire development into a state of serious uncertainty.

There's also the possibility that Persona 6 will run on the same engine as Persona 5, which could potentially speed up development. Though on that point, it's pretty much guaranteed that Persona 5 launches on the PS5, meaning it's not a certainty that it runs on the same engine as Persona 5.

Persona 5 is already a massive game. In a poll of 1,500 players, it was revealed that on average, it takes gamers 97 hours just to beat the main campaign (via How Long to Beat). Compare that to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild at 49 hours, and The Witcher 3 at 51 hours.

With that in mind, it's extraordinary (if not surprising) that Atlus plans on expanding the Persona universe with a sequel even bigger than Persona 5. Back in 2017, Atlus went on a hiring spree and took the space on some job postings to talk about Persona 6. In one posting (via GamingBolt), Atlus executive and former director Naoto Hiraoka wrote about the need to exceed fans' expectations after Persona 5 inspired ubiquitous praises.

"Thanks to the large amount of support we received for Persona 5, we have gotten a sense of accomplishment. But we can’t stop there. When we created Persona 4, there was pressure that it had to exceed Persona 3. Now, we will have to create a 6 which exceeds 5. However, exceeding 5 will be difficult with the current staff. I would like to surpass this tall hurdle with everyone who joins us in this recruitment. The workplace is perfect for those who want a creative challenge when it comes to bringing games to the world."

Despite our protests, Persona 5 is still a PlayStation exclusive. But there's a good chance Persona 6 will share the love with other platforms when it eventually releases. For a handful of reasons, I'd say the Switch - or whatever Nintendo console is current when Persona 6 launches - is our best bet for a Persona 6 multiplatform release.

One of those reasons is that Persona 5: Scramble has already launched on Switch in Japan, setting a glaring precedent for Atlus to port over its predecessor and with any hope, Persona 6. And then there's the fact that Joker is now a playable character in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, a sign of Atlus and Nintendo's amiable relationship. Perhaps most importantly, Atlus has a history going back to the 80s developing games for Nintendo platforms, with Persona 5 Scramble, Tokyo Mirage Sessions FE Encore, and Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth being the most recent examples.

Just last month, Atlus released a survey asking fans whether they'd want different Atlus games - including Persona 5 - ported to the Switch. It's hard to believe they need a survey to know the answer to that question, but it's yet another sign of Atlus's willingness to work with Nintendo to reach a larger audience for their games.

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Persona 6' is the seventh game in the Persona series. It is a role-playing game developed by Atlus' P-Studio.

It was released on October 28th 2023 internationally.

The game focuses on a group of teenagers known as the Hope Saviors who help clear the emotions of people who are trapped in a wave of negativity through the Emosion while also targeting individuals who are utilizing the Emosion for their own gain.

An enhanced version, titled: Persona 6 Myrtle was released on November 8th 2025.

Several years before the events of Persona 6, the main protagonist's

Persona 6 is the seventh installment in the Persona series of games, it is developed by Atlus alongside AlpacaSoft, and is set for release on the Playstation 4 Pro in the summer of 2020

The game takes place in the Japanese city of Nishimoto, a bustling city where suicides are alarmingly common, so the protagonist, Mitsuro Yoishi, must find out the cause of this with his Persona and his friends.

Main Article: Persona 6/Plot

The game is set in the fictional city known as Nishimoto, to which Mitsuro Yoichi (who may also be named by the player) moves alongside his mother, Katagiri, and little sister, Oniko. They settle into their new house and, the next day, Mitsuro heads to his new high school, where he meets one Kotaro Uematsu, who he becomes good friends with.

One day, Kotaro wants to go to Mitsuro's house, have a type of sleepover, as they sleep after their night of playing games and chatting, Mitsuro awakens in a burning building, completely different from his room or house in general, a weird-looking dark Kotaro with bright yellow eyes approaches Mitsuro and attacks him, he then wakes up the next day and talks to Kotaro, who mentions having a dream about his childhood home being on fire, which he thinks is connected to the house fire that killed his mother, he also mentions seeing someone looking just like Mitsuro in there, leaving the protagonist to wonder if he truly went into Kotaro's dream in some way.

The next day, they have another sleepover, but Mitsuro sleeps with a baseball bat in hands. Sure enough, he awakens in the burning building again, he explores further into the flaming house and meets the weird Kotaro from the other night, who turns into a human made entirely of fire, which calls itself Kotaro's "Shadow" who fights Mitsuro, but he is victorious and defeats "Shadow Kotaro", freeing Kotaro from his nightmares about his burning house and allowing him to use his Persona, Barbatos. So begins their quest to save their friends and the parallel world of Psyche from the Shadows affecting them all.

Persona 6 isn't that different from other games in the series in terms of gameplay, there are two main halves to the game, the overworld and the alternate world, in this case, Psyche.

In the overworld, the game takes the form of a social simulator, where the player can interact with other characters and live the main character's life, making different choices and attending different events, like school field trips, vacation trips, etc.

The main mechanic of the overworld section connects to the alternate world, which is the Social Links mechanic, where Mitsuro can interact with different characters and be their friend. The stronger a person's Social Link is, better Personas can be created for Mitsuro to use, and if the Social Link character is a party member, their Persona grows stronger as well.

Below is a full list of the characters for the Social Links, along with their arcana. Bold is a party member, Italics is an automatic link, that's grown without the need to really focus on it:

Psyche is the alternate dimension of the game, a world existing in the collective minds of the people of the world, the protagonists, who call themselves Dream Catchers, are able to enter someone else's dream and fight off their Shadow to stop it from driving the person to suicide with the bad dreams and memories.

It's in this world that the game takes the form of a proper RPG, with stats, special abilities, enemies and bosses. While in Psyche, the characters are helped out by the rabbit, Kayumi, who becomes a party member later on. In Psyche, the characters are able to use their Personas, ghostly demons that appear to help their user, Personas have many different skills to use in battle. Depending on the character's Persona, they have a certain weakness to certain elemental attacks, and the same goes for enemies, who also have weaknesses. Mitsuro has somewhat of an advantage, being the only one able to change Personas at any time.

In battle, there are two main stats measured, HP (Hit Points) and SP (Special Points). If HP hits 0, the character falls and cannot be used unless they are revived or the battle ends soon after, in which case they are automatically revived, if all characters fall, it's Game Over. SP is simply how much power one has to use a Persona's special skils, if it runs out, it can be refilled with certain items or by using a save point, which also refills HP.

Main Article: Persona 6/Personas

Personas are the titular and main method of combat used by the protagonists in their travels throughout Psyche, they are summoned when a character tightly holds something relating to their past tragedy (Yoki's left, prosthetic arm or Mitsuro's last family picture before his father was arrested) Personas have their own elemental strengths and weaknesses, along with different special skills and abilities.

Main Article: Persona 6/Beastiary

Persona 6 has a variety of different enemies and mini-bosses, all matching their respective dungeons, the page above lists all of them by dungeon.

In the game, the protagonists fight Shadows in the world of Psyche, Shadows are malevolent demons possessing the dream counterparts of the characters and forcing them to think of their traumatic past until they commit suicide.