{"id":373085,"date":"2025-12-28T03:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T03:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/373085\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T03:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T03:19:09","slug":"atlus-looks-forward-to-personas-30th-anniversary-in-2026-acknowledges-support-for-persona-4-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/373085\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlus Looks Forward To Persona&#8217;s 30th Anniversary In 2026, Acknowledges Support For Persona 4 Revival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Persona 3 Reload\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/afe2b1d2b24b1\/persona-3-reload.large.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/persona-3-reload.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"563\" alt=\"Persona 3 Reload\"\/><\/a> Image: Atlus<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/persona-3-reload\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Persona 3 Reload<\/a> only arrived on the Switch 2 in October, but there\u2019s plenty more to come&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Japanese website 4Gamer.net as part of its annual end-of-year developer interview feature recently, Atlus producer and director Kazuhisa Wada (who has worked on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/persona_5_royal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Persona 5 Royal<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/persona-3-reload\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Persona 3 Reload<\/a>) highlighted how the JRPG series will be celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>To thank fans, the team is already preparing a &#8220;wide variety of initiatives on a global scale\u201d. There\u2019ll also apparently be some chances to talk about \u201cfuture developments\u201d for the series.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s exactly what he had to say (<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/2025\/12\/japanese-game-creators-discuss-2026-ambitions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via Gematsu<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Persona series will celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2026. As a token of our gratitude to everyone, we\u2019re preparing a wide variety of initiatives on a global scale, so please look forward to them\u2026! Additionally, we believe there will be opportunities in 2026 to talk about future developments for the series. Preparations are steadily coming together, and all of us at ATLUS will be giving it our all to build excitement around Persona, so we sincerely ask for your continued support\u2026!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fellow producer and director Shinjiro Takata also acknowledged how his team released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/raidou-remastered-the-mystery-of-the-soulless-army\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RAIDOU Remastered<\/a> in 2025 on the Switch and Switch 2. Apparently, patch support might not be done yet.<\/p>\n<p>And last but not least, Persona 5 Royal and Persona 3 Reload producer Atsushi Nomura mentions how Atlus has received \u201ca lot of support\u201d for <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/persona_4_revival\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Persona 4 Revival<\/a>, and is looking forward to providing an update:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re very much looking forward to the day we can make another announcement, so please continue to give us your support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, that&#8217;s what&#8217;s on the menu for the Persona series next year. If you haven\u2019t already tried out P3R on the Switch 2, there\u2019s a demo you can download from the eShop. A patch for the game has also rolled out this week, which bumps the frame rate. You can find out more about this in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/12\/persona-3-reload-switch-2-performance-update-now-live-targets-60fps-in-docked-mode\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">our previous story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What would you like to see from Atlus and the Persona series next year? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/www.4gamer.net\/games\/999\/G999905\/20251219044\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.4gamer.net\/games\/999\/G999905\/20251219044\/\" target=\"_blank\">4gamer.net<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>\tRelated Games<\/p>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Liam Doolan\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Liam is a news writer and reviewer across Hookshot Media. He&#8217;s been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of many iconic video game characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Atlus Persona 3 Reload only arrived on the Switch 2 in October, but there\u2019s plenty more to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[36197,182687,5177,75,182688,74,7142],"class_list":{"0":"post-373085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-anniversaries","9":"tag-atlus","10":"tag-nintendo-switch","11":"tag-nintendo-switch-2","12":"tag-persona","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-upcoming-releases"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}