Fruban

With Persona 3 and the subsequent spinoffs when it originally came out, I simply thought it was a popular and good enpugh game that Atlus thought it was warranted to come out with P3:FES and a PSP version with a female protagonist option. Then they did the Golden version of 4 with the Vita in mind, but no console version of that. Still, it was the definitive edition. The game was more popular than 3, but P4: Golden remained less accessible for a while. Then they went crazy with P5, P5 Strikers, P5 Royal so soon after, and now Phantom X (if it gets to Western audiences). However, despite the success warranting them, P5's run of spinoffs seems more planned and formulaic.

Honestly, it's burned me out. I now feel obligated to wait for a definitive version and to skip the initial release. I don't have it in me to complete the vanilla version and then dive back into an expanded but largely the same experience so soon after, and not the time and money to purchase and play every iteration and spinoff. It begins to dilute the IP and make Atlus look a little greedy. For P6, for the first time since 3, wait for an updated version instead of buying the initial release. P3R was a good amount of time away and a proper rebuild and update worth revisiting, especially now that some of the series is now available on PC. I hope I don't have to wait too long for an updated 6 beyond the first vanilla release.