Persona 5 Royal on Nintendo Switch Features a Significant Improvement Over the PS4 Version

ScrambledFaz, a Twitter user, noticed this week that the Nintendo eShop listing for the game had gone live (at least in Japan), with a few screenshots and other information listed there. According to one of the tidbits shared on that page, users will need at least 12.5GB of free storage space to download the game.

Persona 5 Royal on the Nintendo Switch is 12.5gb, 3 times smaller than the PS4 version pic.twitter.com/5hnDYgEV8W

— Faz | Persona 5 Royal giveaway in pinned (@ScrambledFaz) September 8, 2022

This small footprint is fantastic news given that anyone who wants to have a substantial Nintendo Switch library probably already has an SD card to manage their downloads. It’s an even better improvement for Nintendo Switch users who value their storage space when compared to the PlayStation 4 version of the game, which weighed in at about 30GB.

ScrambledFaz also speculated that the reduced visual quality of the game’s animated cutscenes may have contributed to the saved space. That’s not a bad compromise to make if it means more storage space, as long as the downscaled visuals in those cutscenes aren’t dealbreakers for those who were set on getting the Nintendo Switch version anyway.

About Persona 5

Persona 5
Developer(s)	P-Studio
Publisher(s)	JP: Atlus NA: Atlus USA PAL: Deep Silver WW: Sega (Royal)
Director(s)	Katsura Hashino
Producer(s)	Katsura Hashino
Designer(s)	Naoya Maeda
Programmer(s)	Yujiro Kosaka
Artist(s)	Masayoshi Suto Shigenori Soejima
Writer(s)	Shinji Yamamoto Yuichiro Tanaka Katsura Hashino
Composer(s)	Shoji Meguro
Series	Persona
Platform(s)	PlayStation 3 PlayStation 4 Nintendo Switch PlayStation 5 Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X/S
Release	show September 15, 2016
Genre(s)	Role-playing, social simulation
Mode(s)	Single-player