Atlas would be extremely beneficial to be fully owned by Sony. Which of course means it'll never happen.
Sony stopped buying full studios a couple of years ago - Sucker Punch in 2011 were the last. I don't think we'll see them buying any more in the future; they seem to prefer second-party partnerships these days. Otherwise I'm sure we'd have been seeing teams like Sanzaru included in the first party roster.
My biggest hope is that Atlas go third party; like Badgenome says, to someone like GungHo. So they can just keep continuing what they're doing and strongly supporting both Sony and Nintendo.







