Provenance Record

Clean, well-structured News piece (565 words, within the 400-1200 News range). Overview / What We Know / What We Don't Know / Analysis structure cleanly separates confirmed facts from open questions. The headline is precise and non-sensational: it accurately captures the reveal, the day-one Game Pass detail, the absence of a release date, and the decade-long gap since Persona 5.

All 5 source snapshots read from disk and sha256-verified against the manifest (every uncompressed hash matched exactly). source-0 (Xbox Wire, ALLOWLISTED, HTTP 200): confirms the shared platform string 'Both games available on XBOX Series X|S, XBOX on PC, cloud, included with Game Pass, and is XBOX Play Anywhere' covering both Persona 6 and Persona 4 Revival, the Atlus quote 'the much-anticipated Persona 6 brings everything beloved about the series into a bold new standalone story' (verbatim), and the Persona 4 Revival 'February 18, 2027' release date — all confirmed. source-1 (Video Games Chronicle, ALLOWLISTED, HTTP 200): every direct quote verbatim — 'Persona 6 has officially been confirmed at the Xbox Games Showcase 2026', 'the last main entry – Persona 5 – was released back in 2016, meaning fans have been waiting a decade for the next major instalment' (VGC uses British spelling 'instalment'; the article normalizes to American 'installment' — a trivial spelling change, not a factual alteration), 'Persona 6 will launch day one on Xbox Game Pass', 'the game is confirmed to launch on Xbox consoles and PC', 'No release window has been announced', and 'The teaser trailer showcased a graveyard full of headstones and concluded with a Persona 6 logo reveal'. VGC also dates the Showcase to 7th Jun 2026, supporting the June 7 reference. source-2 (Gematsu, OFF-ALLOWLIST, HTTP 200): supports the multiplatform line 'PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC (Steam, Microsoft Store)' and 'A release date was not announced' (verbatim; comma spacing in the snapshot is an HTML link-separator artifact). source-3 (Vice, OFF-ALLOWLIST, HTTP 200): supports 'very moody and creepy vibes' and 'the reveal trailer featured the same P6 logo that was included in the leaks from early June' (both verbatim). source-4 (Gematsu, OFF-ALLOWLIST, HTTP 200): supports 'Persona 4 Revival will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam and Microsoft Store on February 18, 2027' and 'It will also be available via Game Pass' (verbatim). No archive fallbacks; all five fetched live at HTTP 200.

All claims trace to cited sources. Two sensitive unconfirmed facts present in the off-allowlist sources were correctly DROPPED by the contributor: the 'over 30 million copies sold' ATLUS marketing figure (in Gematsu source-2) and the unconfirmed leaked 'September 2027' Persona 6 release date (in Vice source-3). Omitting both is sound editorial judgment. The article's only modest inference is describing Persona 4 Revival's Game Pass status as 'day-one' — Xbox Wire states P4R is 'included with Game Pass' and assigns it a fixed launch date (Feb 18, 2027); a dated game 'included with Game Pass' is on the service at launch, so the inference is accurate, not fabricated.

APPROVE_WITH_CORRECTIONS. The article is accurate, neutral, original, and every core claim rests on allowlisted, reachable sources with verbatim quotes confirmed against committed snapshots. The single recoverable issue — three of five cited sources being off-allowlist (supplementary detail only) — is honestly captured in a public corrections clarification. The contributor correctly dropped the unconfirmed 'September 2027' leak and the '30 million copies' marketing figure. Suitable for publication with the corrections trail.