{"id":115939,"date":"2020-07-28T02:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/07\/persona_5_scramble_still_planned_for_the_west_according_to_koei_tecmo_report"},"modified":"2020-07-28T02:35:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T02:35:00","slug":"persona-5-scramble-still-planned-for-the-west-according-to-koei-tecmo-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/28\/persona-5-scramble-still-planned-for-the-west-according-to-koei-tecmo-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Persona 5 Scramble Still Planned For The West, According To Koei Tecmo Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/82292642e2775\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/82292642e2775\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<p>Although we&#8217;re still yet to see a mainline Persona game released on the Nintendo Switch, one entry in this series that has been made available (at least in Japan), is the spin-off, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/persona_5_scramble_the_phantom_strikers\">Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been getting updates from Koei Tecmo on a regular basis about a possible western release and the latest reminder has popped up in the company&#8217;s recently released financial statements for the first quarter of its fiscal year ending March 2021 (this combines April, May and June 2020).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"P5S Koei Tecmo\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2e43c06f9730f\/p5s-koei-tecmo.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' viewBox='0 0 900 537'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" width=\"900\" height=\"537\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2e43c06f9730f\/p5s-koei-tecmo.900x.jpg\" alt=\"P5S Koei Tecmo\"><\/a><span class=\"image-credit\" title=\"Image Credit\">Persona Central<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>As explained by Persona Central, a presentation slide about &#8220;packaged games&#8221; says Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers is still planned for a release in &#8220;the West&#8221; for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/04\/persona_5_scramble_localisation_still_being_planned_according_to_koei_tecmo_report\">follows on from an update in April<\/a>, when it said something similar, and a month before this, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/03\/atlus_survey_asks_fans_if_they_would_like_to_see_persona_5_scramble_localised\">Atlus asked fans in a survey if they would like P5S localised<\/a>. The signs are certainly there &#8211; we just need an official announcement and release date now.<\/p>\n<p>Would you show your support for Persona 5 Scramble if it was released locally on the Nintendo Switch? <em>Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although we&#8217;re still yet to see a mainline Persona game released on the Nintendo Switch, one entry in this series that has been made available (at least in Japan), is the spin-off, Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers. We&#8217;ve been getting updates from Koei Tecmo on a regular basis about a possible western release and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}