Persona 6

Persona 6 is an upcoming role-playing video game developed by P-Studio, an internal division of Atlus, and published by Sega for PlayStation 5, Windows and Xbox Series X/S. It will be the seventh main installment of the Persona series, itself a part of the larger Megami Tensei franchise.

Persona 6 will be the first main entry in the series since Persona 2: Eternal Punishment (2000) to not be directed by Katsura Hashino, following his departure from the Persona development team in 2016. Preparatory work for the game began before the release of Persona 5 in 2017, while full production had commenced by 2021.

Following the Japanese launch of Persona 5 in 2016, Katsura Hashino, a primary producer at P-Studio and the director of the last three main Persona games, had officially departed the team, citing the aforementioned game as a "turning point" for the series, as well as a desire to pursue new projects away from the franchise.^{[1] [2]} That same year, he established Studio Zero as an development group within Atlus for original projects adjacent from their flagship franchise, Megami Tensei .^{[3] [4]} Atlus USA would thereby release a press statement on December 23, 2016, clarifying that while Hashino's preoccupation with developing Metaphor: ReFantazio (2024) with Studio Zero dispelled any possible involvement with the Persona series at present, P-Studio was committed to creating further Persona games for satisfying fan demand. Atlus reaffirmed that series character designer Shigenori Soejima and composer Shoji Meguro, would continue to reprise their respective duties for future Persona projects simultaneously with their involvement in Studio Zero and Metaphor: ReFantazio.^[5] Meguro would also depart Atlus at the end of September 2021 in order to pursue freelance composing work and partake in independent game designing. He would publicly commit to his continued involvement with Atlus games,^[6] publicly stating that he would prioritize full game soundtracks with the publisher. However, he cautioned expectations as to whether he would remain involved with composing for the Persona games.^[7]

On July 13, 2021, following the unveiling of an updated Persona Channel website commemorating the series' 25th anniversary,^[8] Atlus posted a company recruitment page featuring various interviews with employees regarding work culture, that confirmed Persona 6 as being in active development. The page included a quote from Naoto Hiraoka, who stated, "the vision for Persona 6 is not a small one and one that can't be realized with the current staff." Hiraoka stressed the need to make a new main installment that would exceed Persona 5's quality just as they faced pressure to exceed Persona 4 (2008) with the former game.^[9] While concluding the Persona 25th Anniversary celebration in October 2022, current P-Studio chief director and lead producer Kazuhisa Wada reaffirmed that Atlus was developing the "next stage for the Persona series" for players to look forward to.^[10]

In May 2023, a placeholder logo used during development for Persona 6 was leaked online. The prominence of green in the logo suggested that the game's aesthetic would heavily derive from it as a thematic color, not dissimilar to the prominence of blue, yellow and red in the presentations of Persona 3, Persona 4 and Persona 5, respectively.^[11] While announcing Persona 4 Revival in June 2025, Kazuhisa Wada released a statement reiterating that P-Studio was "actively preparing" for the development of future Persona games in tandem with their recent remakes, and that work was "progressing well" in that regard.^[12]

Persona 6 will be the first new main installment in the franchise to be published worldwide by Sega under the Atlus brand following their merger with the developer in 2016.^[13] Throughout the early 2020s, Atlus and Sega had begun publishing the main Persona series outside PlayStation consoles for the first time in its history, including ports of prior entries on Windows, Nintendo Switch and Xbox consoles.^{[14] [15]} In a November 2023 earnings call, Sega Sammy Holdings president Haruki Atami pledged that all future Persona games would prioritize a simultaneous worldwide launch and availability on multiple platforms to meet internal company expectations of selling at least 5 million units of a new game in its first year.^[16]

Throughout early June 2026, alleged images and the title treatment for Persona 6 were leaked online and corroborated by insiders on social media, showing early concept illustrations of an unnamed male protagonist character and a female character, as well as Japanese character names.^[17] All such images were later taken down by Sega.^[18] Persona 6 was officially announced with a teaser trailer on June 7, 2026 during the Xbox Games Showcase.^[19] At the time, P-Studio producer Kazuhisa Wada cautioned that no further information on the game would be shared until after the launch of Persona 4 Revival in February 2027.^[20]

Persona 6 is scheduled to release on PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S, becoming the first mainline Persona title, excluding remakes, to release on all three platforms at launch.^[21] From launch, it will be available on Xbox Game Pass and will support Play Anywhere cross-progression on the latter platforms.^[22]

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