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

[Otakumegane]

kupomogli said:

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?

And SMT also reuses demons and spell animations. Some of the sprites in SMT are rips of Soul Hackers. Sequels reuse assets.

Still haven't answered my question. What makes you think that most Atlus games have a higher dev cost? At least FE:A used 3D models during actual battle and story cutscenes SMTIV uses all sprites, and the little 3D animation/models that are there is for dungeons. If SMTIV had such a big dev cost and effort put into it, then why is combat all 1st person sprite based?

Those GBA games you have there have better sprite work/animations than SMT.