{"id":52615,"date":"2025-10-03T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=52615"},"modified":"2025-10-02T16:47:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T07:47:56","slug":"persona-3-reload-devs-initially-wanted-to-port-to-both-switch-systems-but-that-would-have-delayed-launch-by-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/persona-3-reload-devs-initially-wanted-to-port-to-both-switch-systems-but-that-would-have-delayed-launch-by-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Persona 3 Reload devs initially wanted to port to both Switch systems, but that would have delayed launch by a year\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Persona 3 Reload<\/strong> will be coming only to the Nintendo Switch 2 on October 23, but Atlus\u2019s P-Studio originally intended to port it to both Switch systems. According to the developers, they gave up on these plans because they wanted to put Persona 3 Reload on Nintendo hardware as soon as possible, but working on both versions simultaneously would have delayed the planned release dates by a year<strong>.<\/strong><strong><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Persona 3 Reload \u2013 Announcement Trailer \u2013 Nintendo Switch 2\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hVcHF5_UtM0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/persona-3-reload-devs-havent-changed-their-minds-about-adding-portables-female-protagonist-we-have-a-mission-to-tackle-new-things\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">4Gamer<\/a>, Persona series general producer Kazuhisa Wada discussed the challenges P-Studio experienced when testing Persona 3 Reload on the original Nintendo Switch. A lot of the issues boiled down to performance,\u00a0as getting the game to look good and run smoothly on the older console would have required a complete overhaul of the UI and art. This would mean a longer development cycle, which the developers didn\u2019t want.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once the Switch 2 was announced, however, the team decided to get a dev kit as quickly as possible and start working on a port, wanting to leave as short a gap as possible between the release of Persona 3 Reload\u2019s other versions. Development of the Switch 2 edition went smoothly, allowing the release date to be moved up from the New Year season to October 23, 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1350\" height=\"758\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251002-52615-001.jpg\" alt=\"Persona 3 Reload\" class=\"wp-image-52621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251002-52615-001.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251002-52615-001-380x213.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251002-52615-001-768x431.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For the Switch 2 specifically, Wada and his team wanted the game to be playable in handheld and docked mode with no discernible differences in graphics and performance. Game director, producer, and Persona 3 lyricist Shigeo Komori adds that since many Switch players like to switch between the two modes, making sure the transition looked seamless and that neither mode got labelled as \u201cinferior\u201d were the most challenging parts of the process.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persona 3 Reload is available for PS5\/PS4, Xbox One,\/Xbox Series X|S, and PC (Steam). The Nintendo Switch 2 edition is set to release on October 23, 2025.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Related articles:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/persona-3-reload-devs-havent-changed-their-minds-about-adding-portables-female-protagonist-we-have-a-mission-to-tackle-new-things\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Persona 3 Reload devs haven\u2019t changed their minds about adding Portable\u2019s female protagonist. \u201cWe have a mission to tackle new things\u201d<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/resident-evil-requiem-devs-say-optimizing-for-switch-2-was-a-smooth-ride-we-accounted-for-scalability-from-the-start-it-wasnt-a-forceful-downgrade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Resident Evil Requiem devs say optimizing for Switch 2 was a smooth ride. \u201cWe accounted for scalability from the start, it wasn\u2019t a forceful downgrade\u201d<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persona series developers Kazuhisa Wasa and Shigeo Komori talk about why they gave up on a Nintendo Switch release for Persona 3 Reload.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":52619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-52615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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