The BIG Problem with Atlus RE-RELEASING Games

This issue could've been easily solved by introducing "version upgrade" - if you own previous/original release you pay ~50% less. This could be tricky to implement since re-releases always come out on perviously unavailable platforms so how do you allow ppl to pay less when they bought original release on other platform ? e.g player buys Metaphor on PC then wants to buy Metaphor "ReImagined" on Switch 2 unless Metaphor "ReImagined" comes out on PC there's no way to implement that without putting up with various console manufacturers

exactly why i ended up never bought any atlus games since ps3 generation, lets wait until the definitive edition and lose all interest on it later on.

Everyone let’s agree not to buy persona 6 vanilla

don't forget the fact that the director of P3Reload said they have no plan for making The Answer and FeMC. but guess what.... around 1 year later, they announce Episode Aigis (which is the remake of The Answer)

All good I'll buy the next version of Metaphor when it comes to the next Nintendo console. On a serious note I bought SMTV back in 2021 and now I have Vengeance as well. I kinda hope that Atlus gets it together and sticks to DLC/expansion passes in the future.

That's why we need more pir@cy specially for Triple A games.

If Atlus does a re-release again instead of making it a DLC, an expansion or at least at a heavily discounted price like I heard p3FES orignially released, then I'm just gonna pirate that game completely guilt free. Coming from someone who used to buy their DLC that I didn't need just to try and show support to a company that was at a time underrated...

I think the persona 3 reload example is pretty disingenuous. People aren’t upset because it simply costs extra money. They’re upset because something like the triple digit ultimate collector’s edition STILL didn’t come with the answer included. And on top of that you are forced to buy it in a bundle. Resident Evil 4 Remake by comparison not only reduced the base game price when the story dlc was remade but the dlc was sold by itself for only 10 bucks. Even if you bought persona 5 twice for when each version launched, you’d still be paying LESS than it would take you to buy all the dlc for reload

Persona 3 Reload is literally not a re-release like Golden & Royal though.

Great video, this is making me question my desire to buy metaphor on release, if that gets a rerelease in 2026ect then ima be pissed, id much rather pay £50 then £25 for a dlc then £50 and another £50-60 just to get the full game

The big problem is that it's DRAINING MY WALLET

Can't speak for other folks who were fans of P3FES back in the day, but I think for them (and for me) the issue with Reload's expansion pass is that P3FES was clearly the basis of Reload, despite what they said in interviews. Atlus remade like 75% of a game, charged us full price for it, and are now charging us again for the remainder. Using P5 as an example, if they added the "Royal" stuff to the base P5 2017 game as DLC, that would have been fine since that would be NEW content at that point in time. But in P3R's case, The Answer isn't new content, so it feels scummy on Atlus' part.

I dont mind Persona getting spinoffs, i just wished they were less filler and more sequels set after the main game. So i rather have gotten Royal as P5-2 and so on with P3P and P4 Golden etc. im hoping Metaphor and the eventual P6 breaks the trend.

I'm not against remaking or re-releasing games, but when the remake comes a few years after the original and is on the same system, it's a clearly scummy money-hungry decision.

Most of the times, when a re-release happens, it has been long enough that I'm mostly okay with it. It gives me a chance to try a new run again, see what's new, and use my knowledge of the previous game to better the next. I also hate this practice because there is no way to really stop it unless people outright refuse to buy the re-releases, which isn't going to happen, because the people buying the re-releases are a giant mix of old and newcomers of the game. It's either people double-dipping, or buying the game for the first time, either because they waited for this exact re-release, or just because it's the "definitive" version. TLDR; Re-releases come out long enough after the OG, that I'm somewhat okay with it. Hard to prevent this unless Metaphor Revamped joins Soul Hackers 2 in sales.

I don't think it's just the new content that makes the re-releases sell so well. I think it's more the growth of the brand Persona, and to a lesser degree SMT are growing in popularity. Word of mouth takes time.

5:42 "preferably a girl" yes

I played SMT V a year ago, I'm not going to buy this new version, it feels like a slap in the face, buy the same game

P5 and smt 5 vanilla are both awesome games and the content in the rerelease are worth it so i dont see the problem If you want dont want to buy it is ok you already play a great game but if you want more content you buy their rerelease

6:18 why buy it if they are going to sell it again in two years? So I don’t have to wait two years to play persona 6 lol I don’t buy any other atlus games other than persona so it doesn’t mean anything to me when they release SMT 6.7 Teraclap or whatever those games are called. SMT is super confusing franchise and everyone who has ever told me about the games has never given me any reason to actually play the games. They are vastly different from persona and it doesn’t sound that fun to me personally. If they come out with a definitive persona 6 later I’ll buy that too. 60-80 bucks 2 years later, sure fine it’s more achievements. Would rather have it just be a DLC but long as it’s not day 1 dlc or ripped from the main game and sold to us I don’t care