Persona 6 is getting some kind of physical release on PS5, and some fans are taking it as a sign that Atlus plans to launch the long-awaited game before Sony buries PlayStation discs in 2028.

The news comes courtesy of an announcement post published by Sega Japan around the same time as the game's official reveal - June 8 - though it seems series enjoyers only recently caught wind of the small print tucked away at the bottom of the page: "Only physical copies of the PlayStation 5 version are available."

(It's worth noting Persona 6 may get a physical Xbox release outside of Japan, just as previous Atlus games have, since this presser comes from Sega's Japanese arm.)

While Persona 6 doesn't have a whiff of a release date or even a release window, Sony has announced that it'll stop manufacturing physical discs for new PlayStation games in January 2028. "Following this date, new games will be available on PlayStation Store and at retailers in digital formats only," the console maker said, and as a small relief, "this transition has no impact on games that already released, or will be releasing, prior to January 2028 in disc format."

Many fans were then left convinced that developer Atlus has plans to put Persona 6 out before physical PlayStation discs become a thing of the past. "So it's releasing next year then," one Redditor writes . "If Sony goes digital as of 2028, it must be penned in for later in 2027," says another.

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