The inevitable appears to be happening in that SEGA Atlus is preparing to release the excellent Persona 3 Reload for the Nintendo Switch 2. The news comes courtesy of Reset Era member lolilolailo who apparently has an excellent track record when it comes to SEGA Atlus leaks. Persona 3 Reload launched back in 2024 for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC. The news is that the game will feature in the next Nintendo Direct presentation and will presumably launch later this year.
SEGA Atlus leaker teases Persona 3 Reload appearing in Nintendo Direct
It’ll probably be a key card so I’m not really excited about it.
It’s stupid that you guys let key cards prevent you from playing great games. It’s like you’re a collector first and a gamer second.
There isn’t even much to collect nowadays. I went fully digitally mid Switch life, because I don’t really care about tiny chips in an empty box. 🤷♂️
I care about the longevity of the game I buy.
I think Steam has been around long enough to prove that digital DOES have longevity. You’re still going to have access to it 20 years later.
Steam has delisted many games before, you can still download what you buy but they might just decide not to, them having all the power is the problem.
You’ll buy it anyway
Calling others stupid to not buy something for their reason like that is incredibly selfish and stupid of itself. If person wants to use that as a reason, it’s valid. Period.
Plus there are a lot of people like myself who would prefer never buying them to help show that such things needs to fail to hopefully encourage certain developers to try to release true physical of specific games. Which has more legal ownership likely. Plus key card have major size issues for system storage for some games…
It’s such a non problem that only terminally online fans care about, it’s as if it makes you a better person by saying you won’t support it but end up buying them anyway.
Just because you find the negativity toward it “rare” doesn’t change the fact that’s it’s debatable nor does it change the fact that not supporting it is a valid thing. Not only that but doing it for more ownership and less space size worry seem pretty reasonable in general.
There are groups that care about ownership, and there are a lot of them anyway. Either way, it’s valid. Period.
I don’t think I was acting like my not buying is morally superior. I was just pointing out it’s a reasoning reason to help encourage true physical which actually is objectively better (less space issue, more power in hand) for certain games. And some people were pretending it’s not valid and then judge them for it.
This rational could be the “make or break” an IP gets though. I understand wanting to collect physical because “it’s yours to own” but most games are released broken now a days anyways. Even if you have the physical version, when servers get shut down, your copy could be just as useless as mine.
Why you’d allow nonsense like that to stop you from having fun is absolutely ridiculous and ignorant. Ownership is the exact same whether digital or physical, no company can take away your license to play it (because that’s what you buy, not the game) unless you break the ToU, which every company has. Having a case on the shelf is the silliest thing I can think of and I was a prominent physical only individual until a decade ago. Since then I’ve purchased well over 500 games on PlayStation alone and a few hundred on Switch, not one has been taken from me.
Furthermore, if it’s an online game you shouldn’t be buying it; it has a built in expiration date and servers will be taken down to host new games. That’s on you, but otherwise your game can NEVER be taken from you because it would be taken from millions and class action lawsuits would occur. Movies and music went mostly all digital long before gaming, you don’t hear this much discourse over FOMO and fear mongering like in the gaming community. Oh and finally, if they do delist a game, it’s usually one that’s been out for 20 years and nobody is playing it, if you haven’t played one of those rare examples by that point then that’s on you.
Game preservation is truly only possible with digital gaming as every physical copy will degrade eventually and be worthless, which they are immediately after the first patch anyway. Physical luddites, I swear.
You do know what happened with the 3DS and WiiU right? Anyone who bought digital with those consoles already lost everything or is at risk to losing everything, one corrupt SD card is all it takes for all to go kaput.
Leaving ownership of the games you buy on the hands of Nintendo or any other company is renouncing your rights as a consumer, and physical copies are the only way you can maintain some control and ownership of your games that don’t involve piracy.
I still have access to my 3DS digital library. I just can’t purchase new games through the storefront. Stop spreading misinformation
What? No. You can redownload any digital game you’ve purchased all the way back to Wii nearly 20 years ago. The storefronts are gone but you can still access all the games you own.
Dude, you can still download the Wii games you bought
Especially since gamekey cards don’t change anything…except having enough storage space.
God I hope this is true, would 100% get it again on Switch 2.
It’d be nice if they announced a Switch 2 upgrade for P5R too, so it’s not stuck at 30fps anymore.
It’s bound to happen, and I’m sure they are gonna port metaphor too, both physical releases trust me.
One of the benefits of owning a jailbroken Switch is that P5R runs at 60fps ;)
Does it run at a fairly consistent 60fps on a jailbroken Switch? I’m curious to know how well the Switch 1 can run it if you remove the frame limits.
Either way, it’d still be nice to have a proper 1080p and 60fps version on Switch 2. Hopefully as a free update, but I know how much ATLUS like their money…
I don’t think physical is out of the question. After all Sonic Racing Cross Worlds will be released physical, only it will happen early next year while digital it will be released this year. I really hope they won’t delay the physical release like that again though. Also the whole game including dlc and updates on PS5 is approximately 50gb which is lower than a 64gb Switch cartridge and that’s pre compression, so we could be looking at anywhere between 30 to 40gb. I kinda wish it came as a package deal called Persona 3 Reload FES, then they could have an excuse I guess to release it as a bundled FES edition for PS5 and XBOX One Series.
I really should try this series. SMT too. The more turn-based RPGs there are, the better.
I already have the game on xbox with all the dlc im glad i got the expansion pass for free as a game pass ultimate subscriber
Im glad i got the game on xbox and the expansion pass for free when i was a game pass ultimate subscriber
FINALLY. I HAVE IT ON PC ALREADY BUT DAY 1 SWITCH 2 BUY.
NOW TELL THEM TO CONFIRM METAPHOR OR WHATEVER THE OTHER ATLUS GAME IS CALLED