Atlus being sold off. Who is getting her?

[QUOTE="DrRockso87"]

Not really a great selection of publishers to choose from.

- Sega Sammy - Does Sega have enough money to purchase them? Last time I checked, they were cosying up to Nintendo to help bail them out.

- Konami - Last thing we need. A publisher with a record for piss-poor advertising anything that's not Metal Gear Solid or Soccer-related.

- Square-Enix - Yeah... no. Just no. I can already hear executives asking how they can "appeal to a Western audience" with Atlus new titles. Hmm, speaking of which...

- Capcom - Oh great! Can't wait for a sh_itton of on-disc DLC, appealing to the "Call of Duty" audience, and "ultimate" re-releases of Atlus games every six months. Wonderful! 

Only companies from the list I trust are Tecmo Koei, Sony, Namco Bandai, and Nintendo. Still, I can't see Atlus going first-party though (however, Sony would be wise to jump on them; port all of the 3DS titles to PSVita and watch sales quadruple overnight in Japan) so my money is on either Tecmo Koei or Namco Bandai. They're both third-party and publish more niche titles so it seems to fit.

Capitan_Kid

Fair enough. But I just hate this "let's appeal to the Western audience" thinking. How about, I don't know, just make good games? Atlus doesn't seem to worry too much about "targeting the Call of Duty crowd" (serious quote by Capcom more than once).

[QUOTE="lawlessx"][QUOTE="Sweenix"]

don't even say that, microsoft should never get their hands on japanese companies

Lionheart08

Microsoft would gut them and have them making Kinect Games.

I do think Square is going to scoop them up. Say what you will about the FF decline, but they've been pretty hands off with Eidos.

Square-Enix would be just as bad. They're still in the red thanks to the failure of Final Fantasy XIV launch. Because of that, their video game expectations for Tomb Raider, Hitman: Absolution, Sleeping Dogs, etc. are so ridiculous that something like 3.4 million copies selling in one month is apparently a "failure".

Plus, we'd probably see every new Atlus title exclusive to iPhones/Androids/Tablets. Yay...

I'm hoping for Nintendo. The Wii U just seems like such a good system to play RPGs on.

[QUOTE="ManatuBeard"]

Sony already has a publishing deal for Atlus in Europe, Atlus doesnt have publishing licenses for EU market.

This might help, IF Sony is interested in Atlus...

At least there would be a chance we could see Persona 5 before 2020, one of the teams of Japan Studio could make it...

scoots9

I wasn't aware of that. What games are they Publishing for them?

On a related note, Nintendo is publishing SMT IV in Europe and parts of Asia.

I researched a bit and it seem it was a short term thing for PSN only. Atlus then made a similar deal with NIS America, but NIS picks the games they might want to publish in EU, Atlus has no say in it. (Before NIS and Sony it was Sega... http://www.pixlbit.com/news/1874/sega_and_atlus_enter_partnership)

This means Atlus was in the shit for much longer than we thought.

Its actually sad... Persona is one of my favorite franchises.

http://www.vg247.com/2013/04/09/nis-america-to-publish-more-atlus-games-in-europe-after-new-deal/

Not really a great selection of publishers to choose from.

- Sega Sammy - Does Sega have enough money to purchase them? Last time I checked, they were cosying up to Nintendo to help bail them out.

- Konami - Last thing we need. A publisher with a record for piss-poor advertising anything that's not Metal Gear Solid or Soccer-related.

- Square-Enix - Yeah... no. Just no. I can already hear executives asking how they can "appeal to a Western audience" with Atlus new titles. Hmm, speaking of which...

- Capcom - Oh great! Can't wait for a sh_itton of on-disc DLC, appealing to the "Call of Duty" audience, and "ultimate" re-releases of Atlus games every six months. Wonderful! 

Only companies from the list I trust are Tecmo Koei, Sony, Namco Bandai, and Nintendo. Still, I can't see Atlus going first-party though (however, Sony would be wise to jump on them; port all of the 3DS titles to PSVita and watch sales quadruple overnight in Japan) so my money is on either Tecmo Koei or Namco Bandai. They're both third-party and publish more niche titles so it seems to fit.

DrRockso87

People trust Namco Bandai? 

MS :twisted:RR360DD

Also I'm sure the SMT games sell too little for Nintendo to bother buying them.

[QUOTE="RR360DD"]MS :twisted:Nintendo_Ownes7

In my humble opinion Sony or Nintendo. Either is fine with me. I feel that they would let them have the creative freedom that they have now. MS or Capcom would kill them. The others would be rocky. I think if they land with either of the two companies mentioned above that would be fine. If I had to choose another third party.... I'm really not sure. Square Enix might benefit from the creative talents that Atlus has. It might even help the with future RPG designs with characters. God knows they need that. 

Either way it sucks all together since Atlus has been my favortie publisher this gen.

I'd rather they stay 3rd party honestly.

Square-Enix and Capcom won't buy them. they only want game developers who can sell 2 millions plus

For some reason I see Namco buying them. 

Hopefully a multiplat publisher.MrYaotubo

All fanboyism aside, I really hope Sony gets Atlus. They would be in great hands.

All fanboyism aside, I really hope Sony gets Atlus. They would be in great hands.

Cheleman

Please Sony do it!!

Persona 5 only on PlayStation systems! and more Vita JRPGs from them would mean vita doing well in Japan. do it Sony

Sony or Nintendo are good choices in my eyes.

Sony, Capcom, Square Enix and Namco are my top pics.

I think Sony allows for quite a bit of creative freedom in their games that Atlus would have a nice advantage there, but Capcom and Namco seem to fit better with the games they have (and Namco published Dark Souls, the spiritual successor to Demon's Souls), while SE is just on a good quality streak lately so I'd love to see them grow.

[QUOTE="MrYaotubo"]Hopefully a multiplat publisher.nintendoboy16

Square seems to be focusing more on western markets now, im not sure Atlus sells enough games to interest Square.

After Tomb Raider sold "only" 3m copies, Atlus is not in its league...

Sony could do wonders with Atlus, Japan Studios have loads of teams that could help Atlus make development faster and more streamlined, Atlus has been a bit of a mess this gen. With Sony, Atlus could be focused mainly on VITA and have Sony power to localize and publish, Atlus biggest problems this gen.

[QUOTE="nintendoboy16"][QUOTE="MrYaotubo"]Hopefully a multiplat publisher.KungfuKitten

A list of Atlus' creditors:

Production IG (44,100)

ASCII Media Works (31,521)

Aquaplus (24,120)

STUDIO MAUSU (17,314)

Nintendo (13,599)

Pony Canyon (12,373)

Shueisha (11,395)

Enterbrain (6,166)

Fuji Television Network (5,525)

M-ON! Entertainment (5,040)

JASRAC (3,528)

GREE (2,506)

SEGA (2,454)

Movic (2,412)

YOMIKO (1,890)

Aniplex (1,862)

WiZ (1,737)

Tomy (1,370)

T.O Entertainment (1,260)

TV Asahi (1,218)

Taito (1,113)

Gakken Publishing (1,071)

Tatsumi Publishing (1,050)

Nintendo's among the top 5. :?

There doesn't seem to be a good option.

hopefully nintendo stays away, i don't want persona heldback due to nintendo's stoneage hardware on the 3ds

hopefully nintendo stays away, i don't want persona heldback due to nintendo's stoneage hardware on the 3ds

Sweenix

Someone hasn't played Shin Megami Tensei IV.

A list of Atlus' creditors:

Production IG (44,100)

ASCII Media Works (31,521)

Aquaplus (24,120)

STUDIO MAUSU (17,314)

Nintendo (13,599)

Pony Canyon (12,373)

Shueisha (11,395)

Enterbrain (6,166)

Fuji Television Network (5,525)

M-ON! Entertainment (5,040)

JASRAC (3,528)

GREE (2,506)

SEGA (2,454)

Movic (2,412)

YOMIKO (1,890)

Aniplex (1,862)

WiZ (1,737)

Tomy (1,370)

T.O Entertainment (1,260)

TV Asahi (1,218)

Taito (1,113)

Gakken Publishing (1,071)

Tatsumi Publishing (1,050)

Nintendo's among the top 5. :?

nintendoboy16

Why do they awesome IG so much money? The Catherine scenes?

[QUOTE="Sweenix"]

hopefully nintendo stays away, i don't want persona heldback due to nintendo's stoneage hardware on the 3ds

LegatoSkyheart

Someone hasn't played Shin Megami Tensei IV.

i own a 3ds and i plan on getting it, but a 3ds persona game would be a huge downgrade from persona 4

[QUOTE="LegatoSkyheart"]

[QUOTE="Sweenix"]

hopefully nintendo stays away, i don't want persona heldback due to nintendo's stoneage hardware on the 3ds

Sweenix

Someone hasn't played Shin Megami Tensei IV.

i own a 3ds and i plan on getting it, but a 3ds persona game would be a huge downgrade from persona 4

How so?

From what I've seen from playing Shin Megami Tensei IV and Persona 4 Golden. I doubt you'll be missing a lot.

[QUOTE="Sweenix"]

[QUOTE="LegatoSkyheart"]

Someone hasn't played Shin Megami Tensei IV.

LegatoSkyheart

i own a 3ds and i plan on getting it, but a 3ds persona game would be a huge downgrade from persona 4

How so?

From what I've seen from playing Shin Megami Tensei IV and Persona 4 Golden. I doubt you'll be missing a lot.

Shin megami tensei iv, doesn't look anywhere near as good as persona 4 "graphics wise"

so it would be a downgrade

[QUOTE="LegatoSkyheart"]

[QUOTE="Sweenix"]

i own a 3ds and i plan on getting it, but a 3ds persona game would be a huge downgrade from persona 4

Sweenix

How so?

From what I've seen from playing Shin Megami Tensei IV and Persona 4 Golden. I doubt you'll be missing a lot.

Shin megami tensei iv, doesn't look anywhere near as good as persona 4 "graphics wise"

so it would be a downgrade

[QUOTE="LegatoSkyheart"]

[QUOTE="Sweenix"]

i own a 3ds and i plan on getting it, but a 3ds persona game would be a huge downgrade from persona 4

Sweenix

How so?

From what I've seen from playing Shin Megami Tensei IV and Persona 4 Golden. I doubt you'll be missing a lot.

Shin megami tensei iv, doesn't look anywhere near as good as persona 4 "graphics wise"

so it would be a downgrade

I agree.

At this point tho, I don't even care if it comes to freaking Ouya, I'll still buy it.
I NEED it :cry:

Shin megami tensei iv, doesn't look anywhere near as good as persona 4 "graphics wise"

so it would be a downgrade

Sweenix

From what I'm seeing so far, It's not a downgrade. Only thing I don't see are 3D models of supporting Characters and Battles, but the Quality is still there. Just no 3D models.

[QUOTE="Sweenix"]

[QUOTE="LegatoSkyheart"]

How so?

From what I've seen from playing Shin Megami Tensei IV and Persona 4 Golden. I doubt you'll be missing a lot.

Sagem28

Shin megami tensei iv, doesn't look anywhere near as good as persona 4 "graphics wise"

so it would be a downgrade

I agree.

At this point tho, I don't even care if it comes to freaking Ouya, I'll still buy it.
I NEED it :cry:

Atlus needs to atleast tease a persona 5, i don't care if it takes 5 years! i just wanna know, they are making it :p

Atlus needs to atleast tease a persona 5, i don't care if it takes 5 years! i just wanna know, they are making it :p

Sweenix

They already confirmed it's being developed.
By the same team as P4.

How this buy out will effect it is unknown, tho..

[QUOTE="Sweenix"]

Atlus needs to atleast tease a persona 5, i don't care if it takes 5 years! i just wanna know, they are making it :p

Sagem28

They already confirmed it's being developed.
By the same team as P4.

How this buy out will effect it is unknown, tho..

Look how things turned out for South Park.... not good!

Look how things turned out for South Park.... not good!

ManatuBeard

Mhmm.

Let's hope a scenario like that can be avoided.

I keep tossing the idea of MS purchasing Atlus around in my head.  I can't imagine a scenario where it would be a good marriage for either of them, but likewise can't imagine a situation that helps the Xbox brand overseas more than this could.

My money is on Namco.

I keep tossing the idea of MS purchasing Atlus around in my head.  I can't imagine a scenario where it would be a good marriage for either of them, but likewise can't imagine a situation that helps the Xbox brand overseas more than this could.

My money is on Namco.

Basinboy

MS buying a niche Japanese dev is pretty much out of the question if you ask me.

But hey, stranger things have happened.

Here is how i see it.

Great-Sony (Good hardware to focus on, creative freedom, Vita needs help because its not really giving the 3DS any competition)

Good-Namco, Konami, Capcom (Multiplatform games, i dont foresee any real problems if the franchises go to these publishers)

Bad-Square Enix (I'm afraid they would make low quality mobile Persona/SMT games, and/or may not even localize them)

Worst-Nintendo (Worst hardware, region locked, may not localize, no good would come from this)

Here is how i see it.

Great-Sony (Good hardware to focus on, creative freedom, Vita needs help because its not really giving the 3DS any competition)

Vita could greatly Benifit from this.

Good-Namco, Konami, Capcom (Multiplatform games, i dont foresee any real problems if the franchises go to these publishers)

Things would act pretty much the same if any of these take up Atlus. Personally I think they would be right at home with Capcom.

Bad-Square Enix (I'm afraid they would make low quality mobile Persona/SMT games, and/or may not even localize them)

They wouldn't dare. Though I would be afraid they would fire most of the staff if any of their titles don't take off.

Worst-Nintendo (Worst hardware, region locked, may not localize, no good would come from this)

Atlus Region Locked Persona 4 Arena on the PS3, the only game to my knowledge to ever do so for that system, and you're worried about Nintendo's Region Locking? also haven't all of Atlus's Nintendo Titles been released Locally or are you only speaking of the NonLocalizations of the Fatal Frame games? another point to make is the worst hardware point you have, name me one game from Atlus that was graphically enhanced because everything I've seen coming from Atlus doesn't look like a WiiU or a 3DS would hinder much if anything (in other words, They're not graphically heavy games).

crimsonman1245

Here is how i see it.

Great-Sony (Good hardware to focus on, creative freedom, Vita needs help because its not really giving the 3DS any competition)

Good-Namco, Konami, Capcom (Multiplatform games, i dont foresee any real problems if the franchises go to these publishers)

Bad-Square Enix (I'm afraid they would make low quality mobile Persona/SMT games, and/or may not even localize them)

Worst-Nintendo (Worst hardware, region locked, may not localize, no good would come from this)

crimsonman1245

[QUOTE="crimsonman1245"]

Here is how i see it.

Great-Sony (Good hardware to focus on, creative freedom, Vita needs help because its not really giving the 3DS any competition)

Good-Namco, Konami, Capcom (Multiplatform games, i dont foresee any real problems if the franchises go to these publishers)

Bad-Square Enix (I'm afraid they would make low quality mobile Persona/SMT games, and/or may not even localize them)

Worst-Nintendo (Worst hardware, region locked, may not localize, no good would come from this)

nintendoboy16

What would be the issue with them cancelling projects that they cannot continue to make due to helping competition or otherwise? Either way I doubt they'd straight scrap any games far along in development.

What would be the issue with them cancelling projects that they cannot continue to make due to helping competition or otherwise? Either way I doubt they'd straight scrap any games far along in development.

GD1551

except Shin Megami X Fire Emblem has Ties to a rival company, so if Sony were to get Atlus then that would mean Sony would be developing a game for a rival company and we sure as heck ain't gonna see that happening any time soon.

[QUOTE="nintendoboy16"]

[QUOTE="crimsonman1245"]

Here is how i see it.

Great-Sony (Good hardware to focus on, creative freedom, Vita needs help because its not really giving the 3DS any competition)

Good-Namco, Konami, Capcom (Multiplatform games, i dont foresee any real problems if the franchises go to these publishers)

Bad-Square Enix (I'm afraid they would make low quality mobile Persona/SMT games, and/or may not even localize them)

Worst-Nintendo (Worst hardware, region locked, may not localize, no good would come from this)

GD1551

What would be the issue with them cancelling projects that they cannot continue to make due to helping competition or otherwise? Either way I doubt they'd straight scrap any games far along in development.

[QUOTE="GD1551"]

What would be the issue with them cancelling projects that they cannot continue to make due to helping competition or otherwise? Either way I doubt they'd straight scrap any games far along in development.

LegatoSkyheart

except Shin Megami X Fire Emblem has Ties to a rival company, so if Sony were to get Atlus then that would mean Sony would be developing a game for a rival company and we sure as heck ain't gonna see that happening any time soon.

Well I know, that's why I asked what was wrong with that.