Phantasy Star Nova Playable at Sony Booth during Tokyo Game Show 2014, Atlus Speculation?

Sony’s lineup of their booth’s playable games for Tokyo Game Show 2014 was recently revealed. Continuing from its recent demo opportunities, Phantasy Star Nova for the Playstation Vita will be available for attendants to check out. Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax, a fighting game developed by Sega and featuring various Sega shoutouts in the form of stages and a Virtua Fighter character team, will also be available for demoing. Though previously only available in arcades, it is being ported to Playstation 3 and the Vita.

It is possible that other Sega games will be present in some form, even if not playable. Yakuza Zero was given a trailer at the SCEJ TGS Press Conference, and with the release of the Shining Resonance opening movie, perhaps the Sega booth (they do have one this year) could put those videos on repeat for attendees. It is curious that Sony is still featuring demo-able PS3 games on their booth (Kingdom Hearts 2.5 and Tales of Zestiria) and yet a Shining Resonance demo is not present. Shining Resonance releases in December, and with no media of the game in motion currently available this would have been a great opportunity to show it off. With the announcement of Puyo Puyo Tetris on PS4 and Xbox One, it is also strange not to see the game available for either version.

On the Atlus front, we can speculate about some of their titles though they have not come forward with a lineup like Konami or Arc System Works have done. The first trailer for Persona 5 premiered at the same SCEJ TGS Press Conference that showed off the Yakuza Zero trailer. That trailer’s premiere is a big move for one of Atlus’s premiere franchises. Personally, I think considering the pace of the information we have received on the game so far it might be too much to ask to see more preview content of the game at the conference, but there’s no harm in hoping. Etrian Odyssey II Untold: Knight of Fafnir is also steadily receiving promotion. Updates on Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem are sorely overdue; while eager fans have been assured that the project is not cancelled, not being substantively updated since the game’s announcement at E3 2013 does nothing good for this unique crossover’s momentum. Perhaps Persona 4 Arena Ultimax may show up, but Arc System Works did not confirm the game’s presence. And Persona 4: Dancing All Night is due for release in Japan during the Fall of this year, so it could not hurt to show off that game either.

Credit to this NeoGAF thread and this Gematsu article for the notification.

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