Persona 4 coming to PlayStation 3 on April 8

Role-playing game Persona 4 will be released as a downloadable PlayStation 2 Classic for PlayStation 3 on April 8, publisher Atlus confirmed today.

Atlus will sell the game for $9.99 through the PlayStation Store in North America and South America.

The PS2 Classic release of Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4, which first hit PS2 in 2008, was hinted at earlier this week in a listing from the Entertainment Software Ratings Board. An updated version of the game, pictured above, was released for PlayStation Vita in 2012 as Persona 4 Golden.

The next main entry in the series, Persona 5, is slated for release on PS3 in North America in 2015.