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NEWS: Atlus USA Delays Persona 5 to April 4, Adds Japanese Voice-Over DLC

As much as I would love to have the dub whiners/haters to blame this on, does the delay even have anything to do with them adding dual audio? Because it does not sound like that is the case.

Animeking1108 wrote:

Thanks a lot, weeaboos. That's another two months I have to spend dodging spoilers because you whiners didn't like the dub before you even listened to it. Screw this. This game is a lost cause. By the time this game comes out, I'll probably have already learned the plot from pages that didn't give spoiler warnings. Atlus has really been pushing their luck since the 12th "Persona 4" spin-off.

You know, maybe some people just want to enjoy the game with the Japanese audio, but may not be able to read Japanese, and thus wanted this option. Maybe for those people, it doesn't have anything to do with being grateful about an English dub. Sounds like your complaining is a bit much in my opinion. I'm guessing you must have been really looking forward to the game if another two months is getting you this riled up. I don't know what parts of the internet you're browsing, but I doubt it's that much of a chore to avoid whatever you're surfing through that is littered with these supposed spoilers you're bringing up.

Mind you, I'm not even a fan of this series. I've just never really gotten into it, but finally getting a Japanese audio option in these games is a step in the right direction if I do say so myself.

is this game gonna get a english ps3 release ?

I've never downloaded DLC content though. Do you just need to have a Playstation account and go to the options on the game screen menu to save the DLC content onto your game disc?

sailorsweeper wrote:

I have a feeling that Atlus couldn't finish in time for February so they included the JP Audio as peace offering and way to increase sales from the Japanese VO fans who didn't import.

If it was for that reason, they wouldn't have added the Japanese audio since they would have to do more work just make sure there wouldn't be issues. They may be delaying to make it compatible with PS4 Pro or there may be some huge story dlc coming that hasn't been announced or that was the soonest one of the VA's agencies would allow them to be used for overseas use. We probably won't ever know.

You're dumb, the japanese audio is already in the game, in fact it's pretty obvious that the delay is because
1-Their Voice Actors are shit and can't even pronounce the name of their characters as we've seen
2-ATLUS USA couldn't keep up with the deadline to localize the game
3-They don't want to be in the same quarter as FFXV both being long JRPGs and FF being much more popular of course

As I have said before, this doesn't matter. Animation is the only medium outside of radio where voice acting matters, particularly anime. Voice acting is detrimental to video games. It costs millions to hire voice actors in union works. That could be used to fixing glitches and control problems. But no, people think that voice acting in video games is comparable, if not more important than it is in anime.

With all due respect, you're mistaken. Lots of gaming titles, particularly those for console gaming, would be dull without voice acting to give players an interaction towards the characters within them.

Ummmmm no we don't some of us just want the game regardless of whether someone's name is pronounced properly or not in english.

Well, one of the given reasons was to "dub more lines" into English.
So in a way dual audio is to blame. Just not the Japanese side of it.

This wouldn't be a problem if the game didn't already get delayed twice before its Japanese release and we weren't waiting more than half a year for this game in an era where localizing games nowadays takes at most a month.

With P4AU and DAN coming out just a month apart from Japan,

and FFXV coming out the same day as Japan, there's really no excuse.

NearEasternerJ1 wrote:

As I have said before, this doesn't matter. Animation is the only medium outside of radio where voice acting matters, particularly anime. Voice acting is detrimental to video games. It costs millions to hire voice actors in union works. That could be used to fixing glitches and control problems. But no, people think that voice acting in video games is comparable, if not more important than it is in anime.

With all due respect, you're mistaken. Lots of gaming titles, particularly those for console gaming, would be dull without voice acting to give players an interaction towards the characters within them.

With how often Atlus whores out the "Persona" branch of the SMT franchise, can we really say it's niche anymore?

Yes, because the horrible voice acting from Sonic Adventure added to the game in any way. The horrible voice acting from Street Fighter 1 added to that game. As if.