Persona 3 nabs a mobile phone prequel

By Spencer . November 12, 2007 . 12:01pm

Without delving into too much some events happen pre-Persona 3 Playstation 2 and you get to play through the events in Aigis: The First Mission. Decent looking 3D graphics, a soul point battle system and cameos from characters in the PS2 game (see left picture) for a mere 525 yen ($4.50). It’s a shame that companies aren’t interested in localizing cell phone games because there is some good stuff out there.

TAGS: Atlus, Cell Phone

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3 Responses to “Persona 3 nabs a mobile phone prequel”

Pedro Silva Says:
November 12th, 2007 at 12:08 pm

who plays these? Square did the same to Parasite Eve 3.

why not DS and Mobile phone cross platform games?

Spencer Says:
November 12th, 2007 at 12:32 pm

@Pedro Silva - In Japan it’s not uncommon to spend lots of time on the train and you don’t always have a handheld with you. However, people always carry their phones with them, which makes it a pretty good market. Plus cell phone games don’t cost as much to develop so you’ve got a good profit margin too.

Pedro Silva Says:
November 12th, 2007 at 1:49 pm

@ Spencer - I understand that, but I look at this and think “Hell, I’ll never be able to play this” not because I don’t want to… but because of the platform it’s on.

DS and Cellphones are really similar, both use ARM CPU architecture and… well, Square Enix is porting a Cellphone game into the DS now and Id Software did the same with Orcs and Elves recently… Oh… and Contra 4 was ported/adapted from DS to Cellphones.

I really think these games should go multiplatform to DS; why not start making them for both platforms from the ground?