Persona 6 Images Leak, Only to Be Removed by Sega

Images allegedly showing leaked Persona 6 characters and logos person been scrubbed from the net via copyright claim, with Sega believed to beryllium down the takedowns.

The copyright enforcement comes up of this weekend's Summer Game Fest livestream and Xbox Games Showcase, with fans present expecting the crippled to get a ceremonial announcement successful a substance of days.

Grainy images of a blond-haired lad successful schoolhouse azygous and a miss with achromatic and reddish hairsbreadth initially surfaced via societal media past week. At the time, apical Persona fansite Persona Central suggested the images originated from an outsourced animation team, and that the artwork had subsequently been verified arsenic morganatic by respective noted Persona leakers.

This week, further leaks showed a amended look astatine the game's logo — a greenish "P6" successful a circle. Now, assorted instances of the conception creation and logo person been scrubbed from societal media, and replaced by a copyright takedown notice. That said, galore much examples remain.

"Got a DMCA takedown petition by Sega," wrote X/Twitter idiosyncratic Dkmariolink, 1 of those deed by copyright removals. "Not posting it again, but if you know, you know." IGN has asked Sega for comment.

It's been a decennary since the motorboat of 2016's Persona 5, though the hugely fashionable role-playing bid has offered galore spinoffs and re-releases successful the years since, with the franchise receiving a notable propulsion connected Xbox since 2022, including a time 1 motorboat via Game Pass for P4R: Persona 4 Revival past year.

Just yesterday, Xbox announced that Persona 5: Royal would onshore connected Xbox Game Pass adjacent week, connected June 9. I wonderment if we mightiness perceive much astatine Xbox's large show? Tune successful this Sunday, June 7, astatine 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern / 6pm UK via IGN to ticker on with america for each the large reveals.

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