Persona and Shin Megami Tensei announcements teased for 2025

Summary

Atlus seems to be teasing a big year of announcements in 2025.
Developers from teams working on Persona and Shin Megami Tensei have said they are working on new titles that will be revealed as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, Persona Team creative producer and chief executive Kazuhisa Wada says that 2025 will be a year in which “several large-scale projects” will be kept on track.

Atlus can pretty easily look back on 2024 and call it a great year. Not only did the studio release critically acclaimed and beloved titles like Persona 3 Reload and Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance, but the cherry on top was the release of Metaphor: ReFantazio, which won multiple awards and could potentially start a whole new franchise for the developer.

It's hard to imagine 2025 being anywhere near as good for Atlus, but it seems like the studio has some pretty big projects waiting in the wings. In a Japanese outlet called 4Gamer (thanks Persona Central), which releases annual articles detailing the ambitions of various Japanese developers, several high-profile Atlus developers have teased that big things are in the works

Persona and Shin Megami Tensei announcements teased for 2025

Official promo art of Shin Megami Tensei 5 Vengeance showing main characters.

For example, a developer at Atlus named Yosuke Uda tells readers that he's still hard at work on Persona 5: The Phantom X and wants them to continue supporting the studio until 2025, but not just his game, suggesting more are on the way . Another developer named Shinjiro Takada, who works on the Shin Megami Tensei series, also says he is working on a title that the studio “hopes to announce as soon as possible”.

Atsushi Nomura, who works on the Persona series, also gave us a rather vague teaser when asked about his ambitions for 2025. He explains that he is hard at work on a game that will be revealed at “a more appropriate time”, but also asking fans to “stay tuned”, suggesting it will happen sooner rather than later. Another developer for Persona – Naoya Maeda – also teases that the title will be an “exciting new experience”.

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Finally, Persona Team's creative producer and chief executive officer Kazuhisa Wada says that 2025 will be a year in which the studio will “carefully steer the helm of several large-scale projects that are on track and staying on course”. He also teases that the “collective mass of these projects is huge,” and that any missteps could be extremely costly.

One of those huge projects is undoubtedly Persona 6, given that the title has been teased several times, and it's been over eight years since Persona 5 was first released in Japan. It's also been a relatively long time since the first release of Shin Megami Tensei V, which launched a little over three years ago. We won't know for sure what these projects are until Atlus finally reveals them, but it sounds like they'll be pretty massive.

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