Atlus has officially announced the Persona 3 Remake, known as Persona 3 Reload, although right now it’s only been confirmed for PC and Xbox. However, that’s certainly set to change soon enough, so expect confirmation on PlayStation console versions in the near future. For now though, we know one thing: it won’t include content from FES or Portable.
Speaking with IGN, Ryota Niitsuma (Producer) and Kazuhisa Wada (Chief Director) revealed that the upcoming remake will only include content seen in the original Persona 3. That means anything from Persona 3 FES and Persona 3 Portable won’t be featured, including the option to play as a female protagonist.
So first I’d like to mention that since the basic concept of the Persona 3 remake was to remake the Persona 3, we don’t have the FES and Portable contents included. We wanted to really genuinely work on recreating the Persona 3 experience.
So we can’t really go into the details at this point yet, but we have remade basically everything from scratch as for Persona 3 the original version. So we have newly recorded voices, we have new scenes and events. We also have both new and arranged music. We’ll be kind of releasing that information, following everything. So please look forward to that.
So the basic concept of recreating the Persona story was that we wanted to keep everything from the original version, but update everything to the modern day. So at the same level of Persona 5, basically. So we have the newest graphics, we have updated the system to the newest usability… We have the voice lines in [both Japanese and English.] We also have the text available in 13 languages. So you should be able to have similar experiences to that of Persona 5.
Persona 3 Reload is scheduled for release in early 2024.
[Source – IGN]