 Alright folks, got some weird and exciting and confusing news for you guys today. First off, I will address the fact there's no light over here. The light isn't working, the bulb's not burnt out, it's, I don't know, I have too many things plugged in and keep blowing a fuse every time I turn it on. So I gotta sort that out and reroute some wires and reconfigure which outlets are on which breaker. But whatever, that's not here nor there, let's get into the news here. Catherine Fullbody and XCOM 2 have been rated in Korea. This was discovered by Wario64, I put up the reset era thread on it, and basically this means that Catherine Fullbody and XCOM 2 are coming to Switch. These games aren't, to understand how ratings work, you don't get rated in a certain country without being submitted by the company because companies have to pay for these ratings to be made and games can't be sold in those countries until the ratings are made. So it's kind of this, yep, you gotta pay for it, just like Nintendo pays the ESRB to get their games rated for public release, any company needs to do the same thing in Korea. So it has been rated for Switch, meaning Catherine Fullbody and XCOM 2 collection are coming to Switch. Now XCOM 2 is by 2K, maybe a little less surprising that that's coming, 2K has shown support for Switch over the years, although obviously we're all still waiting for Grand Theft Auto 5. But 2K has been rather supportive of Switch and has had success with NBA 2K in particular, seems to be successful and we see it in we're getting it every single year. So Catherine, sorry XCOM 2 coming over isn't as surprising, Catherine Fullbody is actually a Vita game that was ported over to PlayStation 4 but never brought anywhere else. Now there are rumors that are unconfirmed that Atlas had an exclusivity deal in with PlayStation 4, Catherine Fullbody and Persona 3 through Persona 5. And I guess with Catherine Fullbody now coming to Switch, people are thinking maybe if that exclusivity deal did exist that maybe it's now lapsed and if it's lapsed what could be happening here. So Catherine Fullbody was a Vita game never released in the west, it was only in Japan. And it's basically an extension of the original Catherine game, I'm not gonna go into too many details on Catherine and Catherine Fullbody just because I don't have a lot of personal experience although I am aware of what the games are and they are considered to be really good games. Fullbody in particular is considered to be a vastly improved version of the original Catherine with a ton more content and well worth playing so it's really good to have that portable and available on Nintendo Switch in the west for the first time, not just a PlayStation 4 version. But some people are wondering now, what does this mean for Persona 5? And well, now as you see in this article on IGN it says keep fighting for Persona 5 on Switch, Atlas has now, for those who don't know, this light is now working. And what we're seeing here is that Atlas has put out a poll several times actually on Twitter and a few other social media places asking people what games they're interested in for Switch and all this and Persona 5 basically wins the poll every time. Persona 5 Royale wins the poll every single time by a landslide, but yet Atlas has not announced anything and it's really weird. But Atlas tells us Persona 5 on Switch won't happen unless fans keep asking for it. So let's go over this article on IGN because now that we're getting Catherine Fullbody, why not Persona 5? If there was this rumored exclusivity deal with PlayStation it's obviously lapsed so what's going on, obviously we have Joker and Smash, Persona 5 still hasn't announced for Nintendo Switch but publisher Atlas says it doesn't want fans to give up hope just yet. Rumors have swirled around a potential Persona 5 Switch port for a long time with a bogus best buy list and I remember that back in 2019, but that momentum slowed down considerably. So IGN asked Atlas communications manager Ari Advancula, this is from the U.S. branch, if it was finally time for fans to give up on hope for a potential port during a Persona 5 Royale preview event earlier this month to which she responded, I am a strong believer in never give up on hope. Now hope is nice and everything but it doesn't mean anything on the surface. But it says the further report was spurred by a protagonist Joker coming to Super Smash rules last year who ended up being squelched somewhat when a teased P5S turned out to be Persona 5 Scramble an entirely new game and essentially a full on sequel coming to Switch. But Advancula says fans making their voices heard is the only way it'll happen. You want what you want she explained. And if you don't let us know, we're never going to be able to make it. Advancula, keep in mind, it won the fan polling, so fans have already let Atlas know they want this. But Advancula said Atlas is listening and does see the desire for Persona 5 on Switch saying it's important to always voice your opinion. Advancula encouraged fans to keep telling us what you want she says, she's fighting for it internally as well. However, it's important to point out that she has also said she obviously is not the decision maker in a situation like this despite being an internal champion for it. So this person is really fighting to get it on Switch but doesn't get to make the choice. So this shouldn't be taken as an indication of what's happening or what could happen down the line. Still, Atlas has made it clear it is listening to the Persona community and taking feedback seriously notably also revealing that it will change a handful of scenes in Persona 5 Royal fans have previously condemned for being homophobic blah blah blah for Western release on March 31st. So yeah, fans are demanding that Atlas puts this game on there. And the thing is, Atlas has another game, you'll forget, you know, Scramble. Atlas has another game announced for Switch back in 2017. Hello, Shin Megami Tensei 5. Supposed to be Switch exclusive. I really don't care if it's Switch exclusive. They can bring it to all platforms. They are a multi-platform company. I believe great games should be played by as many fans as possible. I don't even care if Breath of the Wild leaves this platform and goes to the PlayStation. What I care is that as many people as possible get to enjoy amazing experiences. And here we have like Shin Megami Tensei 5, which was one of the first announced Atlas games. Haven't seen it since 2017. Forget it being announced by them. We haven't seen the game. So it doesn't even exist. Has it been canned? Is it on the shelf? Is it just in development hell? What's going on with that? And then obviously now we have, you know, Catherine Full Body. You know, Catherine Full Body is coming to Switch. Finally coming to Switch with the 2011 version, I believe it is. So it is, that version is coming to Switch specifically. If you're wondering, this guy, this is the guy that originally on Twitter pointed out to me, this IGN article. So yeah, like Persona 5. Jokers in Smash. We're getting scramble. Why not Persona 5? Royale. Why not Persona 5? Bring it over. I do not understand why we don't have Persona 5 right now. Assuming an exclusivity deal is no longer in place between Sony and Atlas for the game. It should come over. It's a popular game. It's a better name than Shimakami Tensei to be honest. That's why Persona kind of split off and now there's Persona, Shimakami Tensei and Persona. They're related, but they're not the same. It's really an interesting thing that happened with those IPs, but Persona 5 needs to come over. It needs to happen. There has been demand for it. Dating back to when Joker was revealed. Only before Joker was revealed. But since Joker was revealed for Super Smash Resultimate, I don't know how Atlas could not see the demand for Persona 5. It was massive back then. It wins in every fan poll they make. There is no legitimate excuse to not make it happen beyond an exclusivity deal or Atlas thinking it won't sell well enough to warrant a port. And even then, as we've seen with Platinum, they could just kickstarter a port and literally get money from fans early for it. But yeah, Persona 5 on Switch needs to happen. It would be a huge get for Nintendo to switch. Some people might think it might be a blow to Sony. I know there's this console war thing where they're like, oh, it's a PlayStation and Vita game. It can't come to Switch. It can. They're a third party company. They make games for Switch already. Why not? I honestly think that console wars need to go away. This shouldn't be a console war debate. If you love Persona 5 and you have played it on PlayStation 4, you should want it to go to other platforms. You should want Xbox and Switch to get it. Because why not? Why wouldn't you want more people to enjoy it? Because you want to force people to buy your preferred platform? Why do you care what other people buy? That's really the big question in console wars is why do you care what other people buy and enjoy? Who cares if they buy a game on Switch or on PC or PlayStation 4 or Xbox as long as they have fun with it? Witcher 3, the worst version of it, is on Switch. But if people are getting a ton of enjoyment out of it, who are you to crap on them for not having the PC, 4K, Ultra, 120 plus FPS, 2080 Ti version with hairworks turned on? Who cares? Everyone's allowed to enjoy games at different fidelities and different form factors and in different play settings. Maybe someone's taking that Switch and playing the Witcher 3, slapped in a dock on a 4K TV and blurry as hell. Who cares? As long as they're having fun. What matters in the end is how much the gamer is getting enjoyment out of the game. And so we shouldn't be chastising when previously exclusive games are suddenly not exclusive anymore. Can you imagine if Switch fans got out their pitchforks and would not buy Octopath Traveler the sequel because Octopath Traveler is now on PC and going multi-platform? Are we supposed to be upset at Square that oh no, this previously exclusive Switch game now isn't exclusive anymore? Who cares? Like the wonderful one on one is going multi-platform. Do you see Switch people BITCH eat about it because the former Wii U exclusive games multi-platform now? Who cares? As long as more people get to play these amazing games, that's really what should matter. So honestly, if you're a fan of Persona, you should be excited to see Persona 5 go to Switch because that's going to create a bigger fan base for the Persona franchise and open up future sales not only on Switch, but in general for the next Persona game. You're just going to build more interest in the next Persona game. And I'm saying all this is someone who has never played a Persona game. Like if I got this, it would be my first ever experience with the Persona franchise. So I gotta just say that like this is great news and I've seen some console war debates over it again, which seems to always stem up when a previously exclusive game might go multi-platform. It's happening with Catherine Full Body and it's probably going to happen if Persona 5 ever comes over. Here you have Atlas, a person at Atlas in the United States saying, hey, look, we want this to happen. Fans are clearly making it known. Keep making it known. Eventually, you would be almost stupid if there's enough fan demand to be almost stupid. Atlas would be leaving money at the table if they don't bring it over. So keep demanding it. Keep going to those fan polls. Keep tweeting at the official Atlas accounts. These don't go to individual developer accounts and stuff like that and pester people. I hate when people do that at the Sakurai. Let's not do that here because these people are people. They have lies. They have a job. They have a career to worry about. We don't need to pester them on an individual level. But if you want to go at the Atlas official pages, you want to go at the Persona Twitter accounts or whatever, that's fine. The official representative accounts for the game and for the company, those are an open game because those don't go to any person on an individual level that we're aware of. It goes to a company. But yeah, let's keep making them aware that we want it. Let's ask them in interviews when we get the opportunity to, hey, you know, fans really want this. Hey, we did a fan poll on our website, on our YouTube channel. You know, we have thousands and thousands of people saying they want this to happen. What are you going to do about it? Keep the pressure on. Honestly, I think we need to put more pressure on 2K as well. If we really want Grand Theft Auto 5 on Switch or Grand Theft Auto 6, which is clearly in development on Switch, we're going to have to keep putting the pressure on these companies to be like, hey, you know, why don't we have this stuff on Switch? Because Switch is over 50 million in unit sales. Why are we still fighting so hard to get these games? Because these companies don't have a history with these particular franchises. On Nintendo platforms are selling extremely well, so they need to be convinced. Unfortunately, that's the reality we live in. So if we want these games, we got to show up like people did for the wonderful one-on-one Kickstarter. We need to show support and we need to, you know, I hate port begging, but I mean, that's basically companies are asking us to do it. This is someone at Atlas asking fans to keep port begging. So here's the thing. I might not be a fan of port begging, but third-party companies are asking us to port beg. So you know what? We want these games, port beg away, it's not going to hurt yet to take two seconds to tweet something on Twitter or whatever. Anyways, thank you guys so much for tuning in. Let me know what you think about this on the comments below. Are you excited for Catherine Full Body or XCOM 2 Collection coming over? Are you excited potentially about Persona 5 if we can convince Atlas to do it? Do you think we even should need to convince Atlas? I think after the excitement around Joker, it should have been pretty obvious that we want him or we want, you know, not just him, we want Persona 5 on Switch. So let me know down in the comments below what you think about all this. Obviously, if you enjoyed this video, drop a like, subscribe for more content, and hit that bell icon. I'll catch all of you in the next video.