Later Development

This is a sub-page of Prerelease:Persona 5.

Full Development (2011-2013)#

After Catherine finished development, the team wanted to work on an "inhouse engine"¹ for the game. Later on August 31, 2011 in Famitsu #1187, Hashino said that preliminary development for the next Persona game is "nearing completion" and full-on development would happen afterwards. Shoji Meguro and Shigenori Soejima were confirmed to return as the musical composer and character designer, respectively. The game's themes have been fully determined and the staff to challenge more new elements in the game enough to create a drastic difference caused from the Persona 2 duology to Persona 3. Hashino said that the wait for the game's release will be lengthy.

On August 8, 2012 Hashino says that the team is "fully focused" on developing the new Persona game.² When Katsura Hashino asked Atlus writer Kaoru Takeuchi about the next numbered title in the Persona series on October 16, 2012, he said that development is making progress but he cannot reveal any information "until the time is right".

Early UI#

A few mockups for the UI for the pause menu shown off at the CEDEC+KYUSHU 2017: Being made in Photoshop, most of these look different in design while still resembling the final game (especially the last one on the bottom right). His model used here appears to be using his very early model seen in the final game.

Despite being nearly close to how it looks in the final, it does have some changes:

A graphic that says, "MISSION". Which is an early name for "REQUEST" in the final.

2013#

November#

Announcement#

Persona 5 was officially announced by Atlus, where it would be released for the PlayStation 3 with a Winter 2014 release date.³

2014#

February#

First Teaser Trailer#

Watch on YouTubeA video posted on Feb 25, 2014 was the first teaser trailer for Persona 5. Has 5 chairs with chains on them, later in the video it has text saying, "You are a slave. Want emancipation?". With the game being said to come out in 2015 for only the PS3.

English Localization Announcement#

The English Atlus channel confirms that Persona 5 would be localized for the west in 2015.⁴

July#

GameInformer Interview#

In the July 18, 2014 issue of GameInformer, Soejima hopes that he will be able to show more information about Persona 5 very soon.⁵

September#

Second Teaser Trailer#

Watch on YouTubeA new teaser was posted, this time showing the protagonist and the general setting of the game. With it being also confirmed to now have PlayStation 4 support, and the game was now slated to be release in "2015".