Persona 5 Royal coming to Switch this October – with Persona 3 and 4 to comply with

Joker’s now not nearly spin-offs and Smash on the Switch, as Nintendo followers will quickly lastly get their want – Persona 5 Royal is coming to Switch this October.

As on Xbox, Switch variations of Persona 3 Portable (PSP) and Persona 4 Golden (Vita/PC) will later comply with down the road, too. This transfer completes what seems to be a plan by Atlus to open up the Persona sequence to a far wider viewers. Previously a PlayStation-only affair for a few years, the corporate gingerly dipped a toe with a PC model of Persona 4 Golden, and now has variations of the three trendy system Persona video games within the pipes for PC, Xbox, and Switch.

Persona 5 is the primary launch, and will probably be touchdown on October twenty first, the identical day it hits Xbox. On Switch these will in fact be full-price releases, however the Xbox and PC variations are going into Game Pass, if that makes a distinction to you.

All three video games are wonderful. Persona 5 Royal is the expanded model of the hit RPG which casts you as a younger thief who bands along with pals to utilize supernatural powers. Persona 4 Golden is a likewise definitive tackle the story of small-town youngsters unravelling a Scooby Doo-esque homicide thriller – however with a darkish twist.

Persona 3 Portable, in the meantime, is a full science-fiction in a way – although it retains the identical faculty setting. All of the Persona video games are set in the identical universe, although like Final Fantasy every recreation is a singular title with its personal stand-alone story and forged of characters with little in the way in which of cross-overs.

The announcement got here as a part of immediately’s Partner-focused Nintendo Direct, together with information on a Switch port of Nier Automata and a launch date reveal for Dragon Quest Treasures. It’s day to be a Switch-owning RPG fan!