Persona 5 Strikers confirmed for the west, launches February 2021
Posted on 4 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch | 0 comments
Update: Atlus has pulled the official trailer upload. We’ve added in an alternate version below.
Original: Fans have long been asking for a western release for Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers, and Atlus is finally making it happen. As revealed through a trailer published on YouTube, the game is seeing release in North America and Europe. It’ll be out on February 23, 2021 as simply “Persona 5 Strikers”.
Here’s the trailer in question:
English version of Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers listed for 2021 release by Asian retailers
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Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers launched back in February, but there’s been no word from Atlus yet regarding English localization. However, there’s a bit of encouraging news coming out of Asia.
Indonesian retailer PS Enterprise, Pakistani retailer Toyorgame, and Singapore retailer Qisahn all have listings for the game. Furthermore, they have a February 23, 2021 date. According to PS Enterprise, the listing was created due to confirmation from their supplier that the game is launching in 2021.
Note that today’s listings are for a “Region 3” English release. What that means is SEGA’s Asian branches would be publishing rather than Atlus West. It’s unclear if and when Atlus would bring the game to other regions officially including North America and Europe.
Koei Tecmo reports latest financial results, Persona 5 Scramble western localization no longer mentioned
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Koei Tecmo today issued its financial report for the second quarter of the 2020 fiscal year. Ultimately, it was a pretty successful period, as the company set a new record high regarding sales year-over-year.
Here’s the full breakdown:
Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers seemingly confirmed for the west by Koei Tecmo financial report
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Fans have been waiting for news regarding the localization of Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers since the game’s announcement and release in Japan. Now thanks to Koei Tecmo’s financial report, it appears that a western release is officially happening.
One of the presentation slides included in the report is dedicated to Koei Tecmo’s future titles. For the “packaged games” category, Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers is included, and the planned release region is listed as “the west”.
Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers localization seemingly confirmed in Koei Tecmo fiscal year report
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Koei Tecmo has released their report for the fiscal year of 2019, which ended in March 2020. Alongside the report have come updates on sales for titles released between April 2019 and March 2020, as well as updates on the company’s future plans, including a brief mention of the worldwide release of Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers, a title made in collaboration with Atlus.
Twitter user @bk2128 has highlighted most of the fiscal report, which is currently only available in Japanese, however at the end of the report it mentions that a worldwide release for Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers is still being planned and will likely be part of the company’s 2020 fiscal year.
Koei Tecmo's upcoming plans are all known so far:
-Fairy Tail RPG on 25 June
-Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 7 on 18 June
-Nioh 2 DLC & Persona 5S localization are still being plannedhttps://t.co/qKIOzQoeQ2 pic.twitter.com/XpNfqirPBU— 黒凧 BlackKite (@bk2128) April 27, 2020
Previously a trademark filed by Atlus featured a logo reading ‘Persona 5 Strikers’, which lead many to believe that this would be the English title for the game, however the game has not yet been mentioned by Atlus USA outside of a survey released alongside Persona 5 Royal asking players if they would be interested in an English release.
Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers released in Japan on February 20th, 2020.
Atlus asking players about interest in Persona 5 Scramble localization in recent survey
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Despite being heavily rumored for a while, a Nintendo Switch port of Persona 5 never ended up happening. Instead, Persona 5 Royal, the updated re-release of the game, is out on the PS4 today. Developer Atlus sent out a survey to some players of the game, and one survey question in particular has sparked the interest of Persona fans. It asks “How interested would you be in purchasing Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers if it were to be released in the West?”.
Persona 5 Scramble, the sequel / spin-off to Persona 5, was recently released in Japan, and it included a Nintendo Switch version. So far, it hasn’t been officially announced for a Western release.
Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers sold through 75% of its initial shipment in Japan
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Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers came out in Japan last week where it sold about 160,000 copies. Media Create has the Switch version at 46,415 units and another 115,995 for the PS4 version. According to Dengeki, the game sold through 75 percent of its initial shipment.
Persona 5 Scramble didn’t sell as many copies as Persona 5 Royal – a redone version of Atlus’ RPG – which initially moved 210,000 units. However, given the sell-through rate, it’s off to a strong start.
We’ll also mention that Katana Kami: Way of the Samurai Story sold through 75 percent of its initial shipment as well. Between Switch and PS4, it moved almost 20,000 copies – though the Switch version did a bit worse at 7,392 units.
Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers gameplay video with Koei Tecmo CEO Kou Shibusawa
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Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers has received another official video, this time with Koei Tecmo CEO Kou Shibusawa. Watch it below.
Persona 5 Scramble devs on the game’s development
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In a recent issue of Dengeki PlayStation, the magazine published a lengthy interview with the developers behind Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers. Producer / director Daisuke Kaneda, director Mumon Usuda, director Kazutoshi Sekiguchi, and director Nobumichi Kumabe all shared some in-depth information about the game’s creation.
Persona Central went to the trouble of sharing information from the interview. We have a roundup of the notable tidbits below.
[Nintendo Everything Podcast] – episode #67 – Is E3’s importance waning? And unhealthy hype trains
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Hello, my beautiful sewer babies! This week on NEP, our big talk is on E3. With Sony gone (for good probably) but Nintendo still attending, Oni Dino and Galen take a look at the burning question: Is E3’s importance waning? There’s a lot of elements at play on both the consumer side and the business side, and we throw our hats into the ring. Plus, we’re talking mixed first impressions on Persona 5 Scrambled Eggs, Fire Emblem: Three Houses wave 4 DLC: Cindered Shadows, the Sonic film’s release (with a shocking mention of Pee Wee Herman) and generally unhealthy mindsets in the gaming community—a discussion sparked by… you guessed it: Pokemon Sword and Shield. Let’s Gaming!
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