We haven't seen Shin Megami Tensei V since it was shown in 2017. Atlus says it is in active development. But what does that mean?
For those who don't remember, at the live conference in January 2017 where Nintendo Switch was shown for the first time, they officially announced Shin Megami Tensei V. It would be the fifth installment of the parent series from which the Persona subsaga was born, which later it would become more popular than the series it came out of.
They are still working on it, after three years
If you haven't seen much new data or information about that Shin megami Tensei V for Nintendo Switch, it's not that you missed it. Atlus hasn't officially said anything about the game since that same trailer where they simply said that they were working on it and that it would use the Unreal Engine.
What's happened that they haven't said anything for almost three years? This isn't official and we're just speculating, but we believe the Atlus team isn't large enough to handle many projects at once and has been working on Persona 5 Royal and the extended version of Catherine. Since Shin Megami Tensei V is a large project that requires people who know how to use and learn to use the Unreal Engine, they need their core team developing it.
Now to the body of the news after putting you in context. Atlus has said in a recent statement to the Japanese magazine Famitsu that they are actively developing it. That means that somehow the project is not currently frozen or canceled. They have not specified how far along the project is but we can hope that after finishing Persona 5 Royal about two months ago they have gotten serious about finishing it. It would mean that in the best of cases it could come out at the end of 2020, but it has the point that it will come out in 2021.
Source: Nintendo Everything
