There isn't much marginal benefit in Nintendo buying Atlus.

[kupomogli]

Otakumegane said:

kupomogli said:

Atlus games are much larger in budget than the Fire Emblem games and the sales are worse.

I'd like to see some good reasons why you think this. If anything, I'm playing SMTIV right now, and while the game's good I keep thinking it lacks a certain degree of polish in the presentation (Argh those sprites are so jarring with the artstyle they chose to represent it in). Cutscenes aren't even animated. 

These three are different games.  The three GBA Fire Emblem games.  The first one pictured wasn't released in the US.  Attack animations, spell effects, just about everything in each game is the same except for characters, storyline, world map, and music.  Even though there's a difference in the world itself, they also use most of the same tile pieces.  So the series has an extremely small budget in comparison to most RPG titles where you know.  Graphics actually improve.

When you're pushing games that are pretty much built on the same graphics engine, GBA games then the DS on their own, and 3D titles that look worse than a lot of other RPGs that gen, it's clear that budget priority is not even remotely there.  

Regardless of development costs though, which I believe are larger since the series isn't copy/paste/release, the games still sell far less.  You expect Nintendo not to hold back Atlus' franchises from the west when they already do so with a series they own that sells better?

chapset said:
Nintendo won't be buying them because their franchise are way to niche and Nintendo only does mainstream pretty much. Their biggest game is demon's soul at 1.71mill and everything else is sub 1mill these are not numbers that could interest Nintendo

Because they published Demon's Souls and didn't develop it, you can't really call that their biggest game.  It's not even their game if you want to be technical.  If Atlus is purchased by Nintendo they're no longer going  to be a publishing company, or if they are it won't be for consoles other than Nintendo.  This will be the same for Sony and Microsoft if they acquire them.  They'll still make money from previous games published, but they probably won't be doing anymore publishing.