Rumor: Xbox Game Pass Possibly Adding Another Beloved Atlus RPG

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Xbox Game Pass might be adding another critically acclaimed Atlus title to its growing JRPG library, with a newly emerged rumor claiming that Shin Megami Tensei 5 will debut on Microsoft's game subscription service in a matter of months. This development arrives just as the Japanese studio's 2022 RPG Soul Hackers 2 was added to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate on February 28.

Seeing how the Game Pass debut of Soul Hackers 2 was leaked weeks in advance, another early notice of an Atlus title arriving to the service seems well within the realm of possibility. This is more evidence of Microsoft's steadily strengthening relationship with Atlus, which is also underlined by the recent arrivals of Persona 3 Portable, Persona 4 Golden, and Persona 5 Royal to Xbox Game Pass.

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Shin Megami Tensei 5 is now said to be joining that list as well, according to a new rumor which surfaced online just as Atlus announced a 30-year anniversary event of its iconic franchise. According to that claim, the studio might confirm the Xbox Game Pass release of SMT5 at some point during the two-day event that's scheduled to start on May 5 in Yokohama, Japan. The usual caveats that come with all rumors still apply here, doubly so given how the source of this speculation isn't a leaker, but an aggregator of industry rumblings. While the early notice of the last Atlus RPG to hit Game Pass also had obscure origins, the claim that SMT5 is coming to Microsoft's subscription service currently cannot be attributed to any particular insider—established or not—and should hence be taken with even larger reservations.

The very prospect of the latest mainline SMT title on PC and Xbox consoles should still be rather compelling