Will Persona 5 release in North America by December 31, 2015?

No, mid next year

That's true, but for me, who isn't a hardcore Persona fan, I would really have to weigh its day 1 purchase against other holiday games I may want.

@Heil68: Yep, you're the expanded audience haha.

Persona 5 isn't expanding any audience as it's extremely niche and full of weeaboo themes

@FireEmblem_Man: Actually, beyond superficial appearances, it is not.

Not to the eyes beyond the niche ;)

What the heck is a "weeaboo theme"?

This is fucking rich coming from a Fire Emblem fan

Fire Emblem is more manly than Persona :P

Weeaboo isn't a derogatory term, jeez. Same with dudebro.

I don't think it'll hit the US by the end of the year, and I definitely don't think it'll hit Europe in 2015.

Meanwhile, I just hope that Persona 5 has interesting dungeons and decent story pacing.

P4G's worst sections involved trudging through generic, repetitive labyrinths; and the story got really stale by the second/third/fourth fake-out ending.

Yes. Adam Boyes, head of 3rd party relations at Sony is determined for it to release in NA in 2015. If it releases in Japan in 2015, you can expect it in NA as well.

It was, in fact, created to be derogatory.

It's just that people nowadays use it out of context a lot; "weeaboo themes" don't exist.

If they didn't waste their time recording a bunch of mediocre English voice over that half the players won't listen to anyway, and simply give us a text translation with original voice over, then I bet the localisation would be a lot faster.

@93BlackHawk93: The fact that there are derogatory terms on what people like to play is an insult in itself. Grow up peeps.

@Legend002: It was created to mock someone who is obsessed with all things Japanese and curses his non-Japanese heritage. Not to insult someone that plays some kind of games.

@93BlackHawk93: That's actually hilarious. Who created that term? My guess would be a Xbox fanboy since that platform doesn't really get any Japanese games. If it was a negative term then I'm glad most people are now misusing it.

I believe it will release in the US around October/November 2015.

@Legend002: Infamous 4chan.

It had nothing to do with gaming actually.

Most people that misuse the term still use it as a negative btw. Which is pretty stupid.

@93BlackHawk93: Doesn't really seem like they are misusing it if the context is negative.

@Legend002: As I said before: It was created to mock someone who is obsessed with all things Japanese and curses his non-Japanese heritage. Now look at FireEmblem_Man post. That's misusing it while still being derogatory.

I feel the need/want to get a Vita just to play P4. I went to BB and was about ready to pull trigger. With memory card it was $250...I left.I keep getting the "free" PSN+ games for it so I have a decent library with nothing to play the games on...lol

Honestly, if P4G is all you want it for, then you might as well just buy a Vita TV for less than half the price and play it on that.

Also, Persona 4 (not Golden, the vanilla one, but Persona 4 nonetheless) is available on PSN on PS3 for $10, if you're interested in going that route.

It would be best for it to come out this year. All of the delays have oversaturated 2016.