Persona 5 Tactica briefly went live on Steam today
Persona 5 Tactica, which is set for a global November 17, 2023, release date on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch, was out for a few minutes on Steam today – over a week early and obviously erroneously so.
The game’s store page for some reason showed November 8, 2023, as its release date and the buttons for purchasing the title changed from the “pre-purchase” text to the regular version. In that period of time, the purchasing process went as normal, but playing the game wasn’t actually possible. During the installation process, Steam showed a message reporting a failure due to the app not being released.
Persona 5 Tactica was briefly released today on Steam due to some mistake in the backend.
Steam
Someone quickly noticed the mistake and changed the November 8, 2023, release date to a “coming soon” message. Afterwards, things seem to have become a little chaotic over at Steam, because a few minutes later a new release date for Persona 5 Tactica was shown: January 1, 1970. That obviously wasn’t it either. What would you even have played it on back then, a Datapoint 2200? Unlikely. Imagine where we could be today if the tech of those days had been capable of creating something like this, though. Ah, the dream.
Things got more wrong before they became better.
Steam
Rejoice, though, because after that rather embarrassing parade of mistakes, someone finally remedied the situation and put up the correct date: November 17, 2023.
Everything is now as it should be, but it’s been an exciting afternoon for fans of the JRPG series developed by Atlus and published by Sega.
