2023 seems to be an exciting year for JRPG games, as Japanese game developers are working hard to bring new titles as well as work on their past titles to please their fans. In a recent article on Famitsu, a popular online and offline Japanese game magazine, there was a post that mentioned 68 game developers and their New Years greetings to their fans.
Using their original artwork to wish fans a happy New Year, most of these developers spoke about how the past year affected their titles, and what they hope for the future. Amongst them were wishes from Atlus, Idea Factory, and Arc System Works.
Atlus is famously known for its Shin Megami Tensei series, as well as certain titles from the Persona series, with the latest being Persona 5 Royal. They mentioned their record-breaking sales for P5R, stating that it sold 3.3 million units worldwide. As for what they expect in 2023, they will be releasing Persona 3 Portable and Persona Golden 4 first, after which they will work on some new titles. Atlus mentioned in their post, “In 2023, starting with the release of ” P3P ” and ” P4G ” remastered versions, we are preparing several unreleased new titles. Please look forward to it!”
Idea Factory is not too far behind, as they launched a new brand Altergear, and will be pushing out more male-centered stories. Their Otomate branch will plan various developments on their Hakuouki series to honor their 15th anniversary this year, as well as work on their new title, Temirana no Koku no Kiunu Hime to Miunu Kishidan. The new Otome visual novel will be launched in April 2023. They even mentioned Compile Heart planning on a musical version of Neptunia, as well as new future works.
As for Arc System Works, whose popular titles include DNF Duel and the Dragon Ball series, they mentioned that they are “preparing various titles that are unique to Arc System Works, including the release on the Xbox Series X.” Hopefully fans will get a glimpse of these new names shortly.
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