P-Studio Director 'Confident' Persona 4 Revival Will Be 'Fresh and Surprising'

Atlus yet revealed astatine yesterday's Xbox Game Showcase that yes, a remake of Persona 4 is truly happening: Persona 4 Revival. But not everyone liked what they saw successful the 40-second trailer.

Some players took contented with the prime of the graphics, coloring, animations, and lighting, portion others were frustrated that determination were nary further details similar a merchandise day oregon a confirmed Nintendo Switch 2 version.

"Man, the graphics looks similar banal Unreal lol," said 1 player. "Honestly, astir looks fanmade (don't deed me)," to which different replied: "Highly underwhelming trailer, lol."

As this remake was 1 of the worst-kept secrets successful gaming, immoderate fans speculated that the teaser was enactment unneurotic simply to admit that yes, it was successful development.

"This is simply a 'damn, present you go' ass trailer," responded this fan, portion different said: "Feels similar they threw this happening unneurotic aft the VAs said they weren't returning. I could ideate they walked implicit to selling and asked them to propulsion unneurotic a 30-second clip the aforesaid day."

Following the reveal, P-Studio manager Kazuhisa Wada popped up connected societal media to reassure fans that Atlus is "actively preparing for the aboriginal improvement of the Persona bid arsenic a studio."

"We are precise pleased to denote the merchandise of Persona 4 Revival. We look guardant to sharing adjacent much accusation successful owed time," Wada wrote. "Persona 4 has spawned galore spin-off works, including TV anime, Persona 4 Arena, Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, and Persona 4: Dancing All Night, and is simply a peculiar rubric that has been a portion of Atlus for galore years and holds a idiosyncratic spot successful my heart.

"We are presently moving connected this task with each our passionateness and love. We are assured that this volition beryllium a caller and astonishing merchandise for some newcomers and long-time fans and we look guardant to sharing it with you all."

Wada added: "Additionally, we are actively preparing for the aboriginal improvement of the Persona bid arsenic a studio. We are moving hard to conscionable the expectations of fans astir the world, and our enactment is progressing well." Wada past thanked fans for their enactment and teased that they should "stay tuned" for much updates.

We gave the archetypal Persona 4 a 9/10 backmost successful the day, saying: "A important betterment implicit the erstwhile Persona games successful galore ways, Persona 4 provides a deeper dungeon crawling/social nexus acquisition that makes it engaging to play." An enhanced version, Persona 4 Golden, has since go the champion mode to bask the crippled connected modern consoles, but fans person agelong lamented that it's not disposable connected Nintendo Switch, contempt years of begging.

Persona 4 Revival, meanwhile, is owed retired for Xbox, PlayStation 5, and PC, and it volition beryllium disposable day-one connected Game Pass. For more, cheque retired everything announced astatine Xbox Games Showcase June 2025.

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