You Can't Use the PS4 Share Feature with Persona 5

While the long-awaited Persona 5 is currently out in Japan and has been reviewed by a few select outlets here in the ol’ US of A, it still won’t launch for US consumers until April 4th… also, it’ll be coming out for the PS4, and PS3, funnily enough. I can’t remember the last time we had a PS3 launch, but that must be super cool for the people still stuck with last-gen consoles.

But I’m getting ahead of myself: if you’re a long-time Persona fan and you were thinking you’d want to chronicle your adventure for friends or YouTube, you might have a harder time than you think: Atlus has confirmed via Polygon that they have decided to prohibit the use of the PS4’s share functionality, so no one will be able to capture screenshots or videos from their time with the game… at least, not with the built-in software in your PS4.

As for why, well, it's probably exactly what you’re thinking:

“This being a Japanese title with solely a single-playthrough story means Japan is very wary about it. Sharing is currently blocked through the native PS4 UI.”

So yeah, to avoid spoilers, they don’t want you posting videos or anything from your playthrough. Now, that likely won’t stop certain YouTubers from using their external capture tools, and I very much doubt Atlas will take them to court over such a thing, but it’s still a bit unusual.