According to the investor's website Nikkei, Nintendo is planning to release a new version of the DSi which came out last year in Japan - Boosting the screen by twice its size to 4 inches and going for around 18,900 Yen (same price as the current DSi). Apparently it is aimed at the young children and elderly folk who may have difficulty...
There's only a week left until Persona 3 Portable goes on sale in Japan and it's managed to get a Famitsu score of 8/8/8/8 (32/40) which is just one point short of the original PS2 game which got 9/8/8/8 (33/40). I don't know the details since I don't have access to better shots of the reviews but according to 1up.com's translations, its...
It's Atlus character designer, Shigenori Soejima's turn to blog about P3P this time and he goes into the history of the Velvet Room. For those of you who don't know, the Velvet Room started appearing since the first Persona title and consisted of Igor, an anonymous pianoist and a singer (voiced by Tomoko Komiya). It's a room that only...
It's looking like I'm writing about nothing but P3P on this blog lately but never mind... The official site has been updated with videos showing off the class tests, the new part-time jobs and a two new music samples. Also, everything that was hidden away on the front page are now available in their appropriate sections namely the...
Azusa Kido who was responsible for the fusion system in P3/P4, joins the direction team in P3P and goes over a long list of the new and improved features in this port.
Liking the changes so far but cloning skill cards... Wonder if that means people can spam moves. There will probably be a limit as to how many times you can visit the shrine to...
The official site's been updated with a short clip of the new navigation system in P3P and a bunch of wallpapers for us Persona fans to gawk at - including the other hidden one during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Just over two weeks time until the Japanese release of the game! And if you answer the daytime quiz, you gain access to another three...
So, I was partly right that Yuko and Miyamoto were indeed meeting outside a room during their school trip but not in Kyoto - It's in Inaba! By choosing to play as the Heroine, you will visit Inaba two years before Persona 4 and meet Yukiko who is still just a junior high student. This happens late summer during August instead of November...
Kawashima from Famitsu has a short report about the things he spotted while trying out P3P at this year's Tokyo Game Show 2009. Most of the info we know already if you've been keeping track of all P3P related news but, there are one or two pieces of information regarding the in-game life sim events. Stop reading on now if you don't like...
Susukida who was lead designer for the life sim events that took place in P3 and P4, is partly responsible for the layout and graphical changes in P3P this time. To summarise this week's blog entry, he explains how the 3D environments for the life sim part of the RPG were removed to help improve loading times and, the P4 shortcut system was...
Looks like Atlus may have known about the Mid-Autumn Festival on Saturday... If you click on the moon at the official site during the night yesterday, you get the following wallpaper. Some nice line art and depth of field camera effect!
Other than that, you can now choose to have Elizabeth or Teo to your blog too and the promotional...