Persona 5 isn't just an outstanding game - it's also a gorgeous work of art. However, if you were planning on flooding your various social media accounts with cool screenshots, then we're afraid that you're out of luck, as Atlus has confirmed to Polygon that the entire game disables the PlayStation 4's Share button.
When we were reviewing the upcoming title, we did notice that our Share button was disabled, but we partly assumed that it would be enabled following the game's release. Alas, that won't be the case. According to Atlus, it's vary wary of people potentially stumbling across story spoilers, so it's decided to block Share functionality altogether.
To be fair to the developer, Persona 5 is a very easy game to spoil. Laying your eyes on a single specific screenshot could easily ruin parts of the story, and obviously that's something no one wants to deal with. That said, it's a shame that the Share button is disabled throughout the entire release - couldn't it have just blocked off specific scenes? Either way, Atlus seems to be sticking with its decision.
What do you make of this? Were you looking forward to taking loads of pretty screenshots? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.
[source polygon.com]
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I hope everybody starts taking pics of their TV while playing this game and posting them to twitter and instagram.
Good. Spoiler dodging has been a pain for me to do with P5. And I still gotta keep it up 'till I get it! I really want to look up the game, but any glance can be a spoiler.
@DerMeister Exactly! I've been keeping myself in the dark so I don't want any spoilers, especially this close to release
I think it's complete b*ll*cks and frankly disgusting behaviour. Sony are absolutely pathetic to allow this. Why not disable rest mode or boost mode or trophies. Please get out. I don't know if this is for PR or if they're genuinely just morons but I'll now just have to take a pass until they see the light. I can't support idiocy.
Kinda sucks because I like sharing to Twitter so I can save my screenshots to my phone and then delete the tweet. If they're trying to keep spoilers away then they need to remove all gameplay videos from Youtube as well. I know I've seen some titled "Persona 5 ending" while viewing a little bit of gameplay.
Great move by Altus with the game so close to release. No reason they can't switch it on in a few months time when the majority of us have finished the game.
A week ago I would have been scathing at the disabled share capability, until the communities tab on my PS4 had a mass effect Andromeda picture which ruined the big reveal and has completely spoiled the game.
Anyone saying this is a bad move or unacceptable needs to play a Persona game to understand.
@ArkhamKnerd That is kinda easy to avoid. The worst people think they are funny when they spoil the ending for others.
@Bad-MuthaAdebisi Someone is a little mad so for this you dont get a great game? Big loss for you personally i could not care less.
@themcnoisy I'm with you on this, Persona games are definitely one of those to be enjoyed first hand with no spoilers. These days I seem to have as much trouble with gaming sites (though rarely this one) assuming everyone has completed the game just a few days after release and posting spoiler articles.
Bring on next week, I can't wait for this 😃
Personally, I don't care one bit, as it's not a game I'll be playing.
But I can understand people not wanting spoilers, as even when you try to avoid all news about a story-driven game (as I often do), it can be really frustrating. A recent headline from another site popped up in my feed last week giving what I considered a spoiler for Uncharted's Lost Legacy, which was irritating as I've been avoiding everything about it since the announcement.
But it does seem utterly pointless, as the pros - and many non-pros - will use external capture methods anyway. So I don't see that it's going to make any real difference.
Been spoiled on Persona 2, 3, 4, Q, games were great regardless.
Pointless complaining about spoilers in the age of social media tbh.
so sick of spoiler crybaby culture. Some people wabt to share their stuff and these things called capture cards exist, so video playthroughs will happen regardless. Spoiler culture was a mistake.
I wish Sony wouldn't allow publishers to have full say on what features gamers can and can't use. People will want to take screenshots throughout their playthrough, now they can't because Atlus want to stop spoilers despite websites been allowed to upload "first hour of Persona 5" videos before release. If you release a game on PS4 then it should fully support all the consoles features including Remote Play, Share play and (Looking at you Horizon zero dawn) spotify playlists.
@adf86 Spotify playlists with Persona 5 would be a travesty!
Anyway, I don't much care whether PS Share is allowed or not. I do sometimes take screenshots but honestly not that often. It just seems kinda futile, as anyone that wants to will just take a pic anyway, but I guess it stops spoilers showing up in your PS4 news feed.
@rjejr Took the words right out of my mouth. People will do it now just out of spite.
@RedMageLanakyn "out of spite"
Yeah, I think spite is what I was trying to get at, but all my brain could come up w/ was
Persnonally, I'm waiting for a 100 hour long game that doesn't let you use the "save" feature b/c the devs feel like the only way to truly experience the game is straight thru w/o stopping.
@rjejr Don't give Ubisoft/Kojima any ideas like that!
@RedMageLanakyn If Death Stranding has no save point you can blame me.
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This is one of the big releases I've been looking forward to this year.
I don't understand this. I love screenshots. I like to document my playthroughs with screenshots so I can look back on my experience.
This will do nothing but aggravate people who enjoy taking screenshots. I mean, even blocking cutscenes is bogus, but the entire game?
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