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The Funny Story Of How Persona 4: The Ultimate In Mayonaka Arena Came To Be

By Spencer . September 29, 2011 . 2:00pm

The Funny Story Of How Persona 4: The Ultimate In Mayonaka Arena Came To Be

Matching Arc System Works’ fighting game knowhow and anime graphics with the Persona 4 license from Index Holdings is a perfect fit. Maybe not even unusual since developers talk to each other all the time. Street Fighter X Tekken and Tekken X Street Fighter, for example, started development because producers Yoshinori Ono and Katsuhiro Harada are buddies. That’s not how Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena came about, though!

 

"It was Atlus who wanted to do a Persona 4 fighting game and contacted us because our specialty is being a fighting game developer," Minoru Kidooka, President of Arc System Works, said in a Siliconera interview.

 

"It’s a funny story, [laughs] Atlus first contacted us through a general inquiry e-mail at hello@arcsys.com," Kidooka recounted. "It’s rare, but not completely unusual. While we do work with contacts, our front door is also open for all publishers!"

 

Good thing Arc System Works actually checks their general inquiry e-mail otherwise the Persona 4 fighting game may never have happened! Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena will first be released in arcades next spring and then ship for consoles in the summer. Read our hands-on impressions of the arcade version here.


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  • http://twitter.com/seph_luis_br Luis Camargo

    I was expecting something more funny like this story:

    http://www.1up.com/news/incredible-tale-how-gunstringer-came-to-be

    Regardless, I’m happy this is happening. I’m a huge fan of both SMT series and fighting games. Who knows, we may see Atlus x Arc System Works someday.

  • http://whatistheexcel.com/ Excel-2012

    Why do the score counters have 16 digits?

    • cj_iwakura

      Why not?

  • AzureNova

    This is going to be the best fighting game ever! ATLUS x Arcsys for the win!

  • aoihana

    I thought it was because of their common goal to take our monies ^_^

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Wayne-LaBranch/100002132711844 Wayne LaBranch

      That too really

  • Solomon_Kano

    Huh. It is indeed a very good thing that they check their mail. This is such an awesome collaboration and it would’ve been a shame if we missed out because nobody read the mail lol.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=685220688 Vince Vazquez

    hahaha – I’VE contacted developers through the general inquiry e-mail address:) That’s really cute, Atlus! 

  • z_merquise

    It’s really good that it happened. I’m really looking forward in this game. We need collaborations like this in our games sometimes.

    Now if only I can do the same thing for SNK so they can finally develop a new 2D Samurai Shodown game that’s not a dating sim or pachinko game:

    “Please develop a 2D Samurai Shodown fighting game after KOF XIII. I can give you my money because I’m Tony-Stark-rich, b*tch!!!”

    Hehe, it’ll never happen to me though.

  • Fonic

    In return, maybe Atlus could make a Blazblue RPG or something.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Agino-Terra-Terra/100000005990054 Agino Terra Terra

      there something the i like to see Blazblue rpg by atlus

    • icecoffemix

      Oh god, please make this happen!

  • Genjo

    lol i am pretty sure Arc System Works will be checking there e-mail more often now :P

  • SalomeHarras

    It’s a little disappointing that there isn’t more to this story, but to be honest, this is pretty much what I expected.  It’s pretty obvious that Atlus wants to push the Persona 4 francise pretty hard right now, and not so surprising to me that Atlus was the one who brought it up to Arc System Works.

  • XypherCode

    yeah most companies never reply to small scale emails like in “Contact Us” pages in sites instead they prefer “direct” emails to a person and such :D looks like they have to read their emails now more often >.<

  • Scratch90

    I kind of wanna read what Atlus send them the e-mail that prompt ArcSys agree to this game.

  • PrinceHeir

    pretty cool arc system works actually checks their inquiry :D

    i wonder how huge will the roster will be??

  • http://strictlyapathy.comoj.com/ SoulArbiter

    ArcSys really know who to hit up for creating games and getting around in the industry! Perhaps they should email more people in the industry. Imagine the types of games they’d create!

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