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The story
Sega has announced that the physical edition of Persona 6 will be released exclusively for PS5, with Xbox Series X/S and PC getting digital-only versions. On 5ch’s hardware/industry board, discussion ranged widely — from worries about whether development will make the release date, to concerns over backward compatibility if Sony eventually drops disc drives altogether.
Sega has officially confirmed a physical release for Persona 6 — but with an important caveat. Based on what’s been announced so far, a disc version will only be available for the PS5 edition.
The game is set to launch on Xbox Series X/S, PC, and PS5, but only PS5 players will be able to buy a physical copy in stores. Xbox and PC players will get digital-only releases, at least for now.
Source: games.gg / Read the original article here
What people said
Next year could be a quality-control nightmare.
Some folks never learn.
Think they'll actually make it in time?
It's Atlus — the 'incomplete-then-complete-edition' double-dip business model is standard for them. They'll just ship it unfinished as usual, so there's no way they miss the deadline.
It's not like a game like this needs that high a resolution anyway.
Well, whatever — I bought Persona 5 but never finished it. Persona games really are an acquired taste.
Never got into the calendar/date system.
Even under the influence of 'Mr. Obligation' (a nickname implying loyalty to certain business partners), the disloyalty since Shin Megami Tensei V has been awful.
What really dealt a fatal blow to the 'complete edition' business model wasn't Persona, which had been milking it for ages — it was Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance.
— that's the usual excuse pattern, isn't it.
"It's not launching alongside Switch 2, so I won't feel special about buying it"
— that's the current excuse, isn't it.
Bottom line, they were never going to buy it no matter what.
Maybe they'll sell some rip-off disc-drive add-on for PS6 too,
but would anyone actually buy that just to play old PS5 games? That's the question.
Honestly, it's more likely PS6 won't even support backward compatibility with physical discs in the first place.
Back when FF7 Remake was a PS exclusive: "There's no way this runs on Switch 2."
Back during Wilds: "There's no way this runs on Switch 2."
Keep patting yourselves on the back if you want, but here's the reality: the titles you tagged '[Switching Hub]' (a sarcastic meme tag used on the board for console-war flame threads) ended up flopping hard,
while the titles you swore "there's no way this runs on Switch 2" about ended up ditching their PlayStation exclusivity.
What is this, are you guys some kind of jinx? lol
Nothing wrong with what he said — as-is, there's no way it runs on Switch 2.
Downporting takes years, after all.
By that logic, releasing on Steam first would make launch happen even earlier.
It takes time to tune it for consoles, lol.
It'd go Steam → PS5 etc. → Switch 2, right? If it's getting delayed anyway, there'd be no problem launching consoles simultaneously — so is this just a sacrifice to you guys' superiority complex about not buying day one?
that means it'll ship unfinished as usual, with a complete edition to follow.
If they pull the same stunt with Persona 6 that they did with SMT V, it'll bomb overseas, won't it.
Then again, games that are multiplatform across only PS5/Xbox/PC tend to flop anyway, so maybe it won't change much.
I can't think of a single game multiplatform on just those three that didn't undersell its predecessor.
Won't it still get a disc release on Xbox?
Isn't this really more like the last disc for the PS version specifically?
The article says there's no physical release for Xbox at all.
That's not an unusual call for a Japanese game, and the Xbox physical market has been shrinking, so it wouldn't be strange for them to stop doing physical releases this time even if they used to.
Ah, so that's why it can be Day One on Game Pass.
PS5 owners must be crying about it, lol.
The linked article says an Xbox disc version might still happen overseas though.
so I doubt buying the physical disc version will even get you proper backward compatibility.
On the flip side, when Famitsu's sales numbers for the PS version of P6 come out, it'll basically be a clear headcount of how many clueless guys are still out there.
Though a complete edition probably won't happen.
If it's already shaky whether FF7 Remake Part 3, slated for spring 2027, can even get a disc version,
then late 2027 looks pretty dicey too.
There's also the chance that the better a game sells, the less likely it is to get a disc version at all.
It's just that the badly outdated original Switch is trash, lol.
Yeah, right — since there's nothing behind it, that's the only thing left to say, huh?
Didn't some overseas third-party publisher say this caught them completely off guard?
I'd like to believe Sega at least knew, though.
Production's ending, so that goes for third parties too.
Background and Key Points
Persona is Atlus’s flagship RPG series, and Atlus itself is a subsidiary of Sega, which is why “Sega” is named as the publisher making this announcement rather than Atlus. The commenters’ references to “5R,” “4G,” and “3R” are shorthand for Persona 5 Royal, Persona 4 Golden, and Persona 3 Reload — expanded “complete edition” re-releases that Atlus has sold for every mainline Persona game to date, each adding new content a year or more after the original launch. That pattern is central to why several posters assume Persona 6 will ship “unfinished” with a paid complete edition to follow. The PS5’s disc drive is a detachable add-on peripheral, not a built-in requirement, which is the backdrop for posters’ worry about future backward compatibility once Sony phases out disc support.
The thread doesn’t split on whether Persona 6 is coming — nobody seriously disputes that — it splits on what a PS5-only disc means. One camp reads it as Atlus racing a closing window before physical media disappears industry-wide; another reads it as confirmation the game will launch incomplete, per the established Persona/Atlus playbook; a third fixates on Xbox losing physical support and ties it to the game being a Day One Xbox Game Pass title, implying Microsoft’s subscription deal shaped the format decision.
What the thread never states outright is that no release date for Persona 6 has actually been confirmed — every “2027 vs 2028” deadline discussion here is pure speculation about disc production cutoffs, not information from Sega. Readers unfamiliar with the Japanese gaming market may also not realize physical Xbox releases from Japanese publishers have been rare for years, independent of this specific decision.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry [Geha]) thread “[Switching Hub] Persona 6 Physical Edition Confirmed PS5-Exclusive.”
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