Update: Atlus has confirmed that Persona 5 Royal is coming to PS5, with Persona 4 Golden, and Persona 3 Portable coming to the new-gen console via backwards compatibility. P3P and P5R also coming to PC via Steam, on top of their launches on Xbox Game Pass.
In a press release, the studio announced that as well as the release on Xbox and Windows via Game Pass, the three games "will also be heading to Steam and PlayStation 5." Until now, Persona 5 Royal had only been available on PS5 via backwards compatibility, while Persona 3 and 4 were only available on the PSP and PS Vita, and were yet to make the jump to more recent Sony home consoles.
What's interesting is that it's Persona 3 Portable, and not Fes, coming to new consoles. For those unfamiliar, the Portable version of Persona 3 had an alternate female protagonist, while the Fes launch of Persona 3 included a brand new epilogue section, which picked up some time after the events of the main game.
Nonetheless, it's a brilliant move from Atlus. These three Persona games are traditionally seen as the "modern" Persona games, after director Katsura Hashino took charge of the franchise at Atlus. Sorry, fans of Persona and Persona 2, you're going to have to continue hoping that Atlus comes back to revisit the origins of its franchise in the future.
