BODY: Atlus is not waiting until 2027 to let players back into Inaba. The publisher has announced a national in-store demo tour for Persona 4 Revival, running November 14 through December 13 at six venues across five Japanese cities — and before that, a free online quiz that tests how much of the series you actually remember.
The demo stations will be set up inside Yodobashi Camera and Bic Camera locations, Japan's big-box electronics chains. Attendees pick one of two scenarios: a story route covering the game's opening and exploration of the eerily transformed Shopping District, or a dungeon route that drops players into Yukiko's Castle for Shadow combat and a boss fight. Everyone who plays walks away with a bottle holder, and anyone who finishes the demo and places a preorder on the spot also receives a B2-size poster.
Two dates carry extra incentive. On November 21 at Yodobashi Camera Multimedia Akiba and November 29 at Yodobashi Camera Multimedia Umeda, Kuma — Teddie to English-speaking fans — will appear in costume to greet visitors.
Running ahead of the tour is the Persona Kentei, a free 50-question web quiz open from noon on October 31 until 6 p.m. on November 1. Questions span the whole mainline series, from the original Persona through Persona 5 Royal, and finishers are issued a digital certificate scaled to their score.
Persona 4 Revival launches February 18, 2027 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and PC, with a Nintendo Switch 2 version following May 20, 2027, priced from ¥9,900.
The insider take
Both halves of this campaign are very Japanese in shape. Retail demo pods at Yodobashi and Bic are a long-standing Atlus habit because Japan's console market still runs heavily on physical preorders taken at the counter — the poster is bait for exactly that conversion, not a general giveaway. And the word kentei is doing real cultural work: Japan has official certification exams for everything from regional trivia to kanji to ramen, so framing a fan quiz as an "exam" with a printable certificate taps a familiar national pastime rather than reading as a gimmick. Expect the top scores to circulate on Japanese social media as a flex.
Originally reported by GAME Watch (Japanese).