Sega confirms the Persona 6 leak by trying to stop it

Sometimes it might be a better idea to do nothing, rather than indirectly confirm that a moderately spread leak is real and thereby make it bigger than it was before.
Text: Jonas Mäki
Published 2026-06-05

There have been persistent rumours that Persona 6 will be announced during either tonight's Summer Game Fest, Sunday's Xbox Games Showcase, or Nintendo's rumoured Direct stream next week. These rumours have also been further backed up by allegedly leaked images from the game.

So far, the images haven't spread very widely, but this week Sega has done something that might do more harm than good. IGN reports that Sega has cleared the internet of all leaked images by sending out copyright infringement notices.

In other words, this means the images are actually genuine, and it certainly increases the chances that Persona 6 will be revealed very soon.

If Sega's goal was to keep Persona 6 under wraps, we can only note that we and countless other sites have now reported on the matter without showing the leaked images, and one might therefore suspect that Sega's actions have only made the situation worse.

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