Persona and Shin Megami Tensei announcements teased for 2025

Summary

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

Atlus can easily look at 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 icing on the cake was the release of Metaphor: ReFantazio, which won multiple awards and could begin a brand new series for the developer.

It's hard to imagine 2025 being nearly as good for Atlus, but it looks like the studio has some pretty big projects waiting in the wings. In a Japanese outlet called 4Gamer (thanks Persona Central), which releases annual aspirational articles for 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 promotional art of Shin Megami Tensei 5 Vengeance featuring the main characters.

For example, an Atlus developer named Yosuke Uda tells readers that he is still hard at work on Persona 5: The Phantom X and wants them to continue to support the studio until 2025, but not just his game, meaning that more i'm on my way Another developer named Shinjiro Takada, who works on the Shin Megami Tensei series, also states that 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 aspirations for 2025. He explains that he's hard at work on a game that will be revealed “at a more appropriate time”. but also asks fans to “stay tuned,” hinting that it will be 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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Ultimately, Persona Team creative producer and chief director Kazuhisa Wada says that 2025 will be a year where the studio will “carefully steer the helm of several ambitious projects that are on track and stay the course.” He also teases that “the collective mass of these projects is enormous” and that any missteps could be extremely costly.

One of those massive projects is undoubtedly Persona 6, given that the title has been teased multiple 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 original release of Shin Megami Tensei V, which was released a little over three years ago. We won't know for sure what these projects are until Atlus reveals them, but it looks like they'll be pretty massive.

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