News > Atlus Cares About Quality. Persona 3 Delayed
July 23, 2007
It appears that a slight problem with Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 is going to cause it to miss its July 24th release date. For those of you keeping score at home, that would've been tomorrow. The reason for the slippage is a manufacturing defect with the game's included art book.
Atlus had this to say about the delay:
"Due to a manufacturing error with regard to the Persona 3 Art Book, the title will regretfully narrowly miss its scheduled ship date of July 24th, 2007. This was an unforeseen scenario, and one regretfully out of our control.
Presented with the choice of compromising on the quality of the art book, or shipping the game without said extra, we decided to have the art book redone with a higher quality binding, which will cause a very short delay in the ship date of the title.
While all other materials and packaging related to the game are complete, we were unwilling to sacrifice the art book, and as such will expedite the manufacturing process to the best of our ability in order to release the title as soon as is possible.
We appreciate your understanding and will release a formal announcement when Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 ships."
I respect that decision, and I've always been down with Atlus because of that kind of attitude toward gaming (actually, it was mostly because of their software). I'll tell you right now, though, Persona 3 is looking like a damn fine game, and you can expect to see GameWad's full review sometime in the next few days.
*Eddie R Inzauto - Senior Editor, GameWad.com
