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kupomogli on 23 July 2013
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AgentZorn said:
Xxain said:

I not sure what the hype around Nintendo buying Atlus is about. It's not a good idea. Nintendo has proven time and time again they do not care about RPG's not tied to popular brands.

We had to beg for The Last Story by popular designer Hirinobu Sakaguchi.

Nintendo has done almost nothing with Monolithsoft and that is a truly talented developer and given proper resources they could create something to rival FF.
Monolithsoft have not been with Nintendo for that long.

Nintendo take's the RPG Paper Mario.. then removes the RPG!?


They nearly cancelled the Fire Emblem series
Because the series always sold poorly


Where Earthbound/Mother? The Wii U release is the first thing in years to happen to the series.
Itoi has said that the story is DONE with the Mother series

Seriously! Ask yourselves. Do you want Nintendo to buy Atlus? I damn sure dont.

Because the series always sold poorly

To Nintendo, yes, but to other developers no.  The Fire Emblem games were never a shining example of graphical prowess.  The fact that every GBA game is graphically the same while all the DS have the same animations and only look a bit better proves that.  Expect to see Fire Emblem Awakening graphics on the next five games in the series.

Atlus games are much larger in budget than the Fire Emblem games and the sales are worse.  Whether these sales are correct or not, it's currently showing seven different Fire Emblem games above 500,000 sales, with two of them selling 970,000.  Fire Emblem Awakening will pass a million sales eventually.  Compare this to any Atlus "developed," not published,  game and there's only five which sold over 500,000, two of which are remakes/rereleases(Persona 3 FES and Persona 3 Portable.)  The highest selling game is Persona 4 on the PS2 with 820,000.

If you want some more comparisons, their highest selling DS title is Trauma Center with 340,000.  Highest selling RPG is Etrian Odyssey with 300,000.  Highest selling SMT/spinoff is Devil Survivor with 280,000.  SMT4 sales at 250,000 are their highest 3DS sales(which I believe should pass 400,000.)  

Rarely does Nintendo put any sort of massive budget towards their franchises.  Titles they can't get away without putting a decent budget that happens not to sell as well as they hope gets ignored for a very long time.  Metroid Prime The Other M anyone.  Sells well over a million copies, only for Nintendo to come out and say they were disappointed with the sales.  When has been the last time we've heard anything about a new Metroid other than fan made works? 

If Nintendo bought  Atlus we'd see maybe one or two games a generation.  So  only one or two games out of all Atlus' franchises.  Because western gamers happen not to like RPGs, or so Nintendo thinks, who knows if we'll even get the games that they do develop.