Persona 4 remake news feels all-but inevitable, but a little rating weirdness means I wonder about Golden content

Almost exactly a year ago, Persona 4’s seemingly inevitable remake broke cover for the first time at an Xbox Games Showcase. Well, sort of. There wasn’t much of it, you see. The trailer consisted mostly of the game’s protagonist running around a barren Inaba Shopping District, with the odd panning shot of other—equally depopulated—locations from the game, giving the impression Atlus was in early stages on the project and had been forced to whip up something quick out of the materials it had for a reveal.

But perhaps it’s due sooner than that first trailer would suggest. Fans have spotted that Persona 4 Revival now has an ESRB rating—which you can verify for yourself on the game’s Xbox store page—suggesting that, well, there’s enough of the game to rate, for one thing. Those of you hip to the calendar might also note that this rating has popped up very close to the June 7 Xbox Games Showcase; I’d bet all my Third Girl’s Talc we’re getting some P4R news there.