P4R: Persona 4 Revival Finally, Officially Confirmed at Xbox Games Showcase

After months of poorly-kept secrets, Atlus has officially revealed that a remake of Persona 4 is truly happening.

In a little trailer, we got our archetypal look astatine P4R: Persona 4 Revival for Xbox, PS5, and PC, and volition beryllium disposable time 1 connected Game Pass. We didn't get to spot overmuch of the game, but the environments we got a little look astatine appeared to beryllium importantly visually improved from the original.

Following the announcement, developer P-Studio manager Kazuhisa Wada shared the pursuing messages:

We are precise pleased to denote the merchandise of Persona 4 Revival. We look guardant to sharing adjacent much accusation successful owed time.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.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 satellite and our enactment is progressing well. Please enactment tuned for much updates.We look guardant to your continued enactment of the Persona series.

Fans person been gossiping astir a due Persona 4 remake for a portion now, fueled by caller registered domain names, manufacture insiders, and much recently, aggregate of the archetypal dependable actors saying they would not beryllium returning for the then-unannounced remake, sparking conspiracy theories astir their posts.

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 instrumentality begging.

You tin drawback up connected everything announced astatine today's Xbox Games Showcase close here, and support up connected the bevy of caller announcements each play astatine IGN Live here.

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