UshiromiyaEva posted... I think people underestimate just how much Metaphor was effecting P6's development.
I know it's not literally the exact same overlap of teams, but I'm willing to bet that until Metaphor was in the polishing stages P6 was still in planning.
It's possible since the teams are probably more fluid than we think. It's just kinda weird since P6 should be the game that's pulling people
from other teams than the other way around (eg I'd have expected Metaphor to first pull from SMT if it needed more manpower than from Persona).
Just pure speculation but internally, I think P3R and P6 have both been in some level of pre-production since after Royal wrapped up, with P3R expected to be a smaller project. It then turned out that P3R was a lot more work than expected and in 2022 or so, the decision was made to concentrate on P3R first and have it go in full production while a smaller team continued P6.
This makes sense but if they are seemingly prioritizing P4R over P6 now as well, I feel like either P6 is in some weird development hell like DQXII where they are struggling with how to define the game or they consciously don't think P6 is needed that much yet since P5 + P5 Phantom X are making a ton of money and they don't see a need to supplant/overshadow it.