Soriku said:
jarrod said:
Soriku said:
jarrod said:
I actually wouldn't mind seeing them (and the Tales IP) sold off to Square Enix... though I wonder how it might effect their relationship with tri-Ace? Is there still bad blood there? Enix was originally bidding with Namco for "Tale Phantasia" back in the early 1990s iirc.
If Namco just closes Tales Studio down, I imagine they'll just take key staff internal and continue making (fewer) Tales games, which also might not be a bad thing.
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I'd rather see them sold off to Atlus...that means every game is localized. I wish only Team Symphonia and Team Destiny would make games since everything else is filler and not up to standard...
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To be honest, I'd rather not see Atlus assume the risk or expense. I like Atlus too much (both for their own games and Atlus USA's choice pickups).
The only parties I can really see being both able and interested in buying Tales Studio would be Square Enix, Nintendo or Ubisoft. :/
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Atlus makes profit really easily on niche games. IMO Tales games could look like Persona graphically and it'd be fine.
For some reason I wouldn't feel comfortable with SE. Nintndo would be nice ONLY if they localize at least Team Symphonia and Destiny titles.
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Eh, Megaten games have far, far lower production values (and thus likely far, far lower budgets) than mainline Tales though. Ditto for other Atlus staples Etrian Odyssey, Growlanser, Trauma or Sting's games... even something like Tales of Hearts seems like it was probably a more costly venture than all Atlus R&D1's DS games combined so far. That's the problem, Tales games these days have AAA budgets but B grade sales in Japan, and the franchise has been mismanaged into oblivion elsewhere.
Honestly I think the best thing going forward would be to reorganize the studio into one core team, and maybe within Namco even. Let them work on one high profile Tales at a time, and get it out every 2 years or so. A full 3D Tales of Phantasia remake might be a good start (as a sort of "series reset"). Maybe for 3DS too, hit the ground running for next gen and really consolidate the Tales base on one platform for the future.
