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

[MikeRox]

osed125 said:

Xxain said:

osed125 said:

Xxain said:

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.

Does Monolithsoft have been with Nintendo that long to make a lot of games? Don't know when Nintendo bought them but they made Xenobale which I imagine took all of their manpower and 'X' is probably the same. Those are pretty big games which take a lot of time and money to make. 

Or Xenoblade being named "best RPG of the generation" by a lot of gamers doesn't count for anything?

Your right, Xenoblade is a awesome JRPG. Why didnt Nintendo treat like that? We almost did not get to experience it.

And that's problem of Nintendo themselves and not what they are doing with Monolith. Nintendo let them do what they wanted (or at least I think they did).

Nintendo is a weird company, they published the game in Europe, but decided not to in the U.S. My personal theory is that Nintendo of America for some reason took waaaay to long to decide if they wanted to published the game in America or not, and by that time the game was already pirated to no end. Heck according to this the game was downloaded illegally nearly 1 million times in 2011, not really a huge incentive for Nintendo, and probably the reason why Xseed made a limited print of the game.

I think Xenobalde is one of the very very few cases where the illegal downloads are much higher than the actual sales.

 

Sorry if someone's already posted, but basically NoJ, NoE and NoA all actually operate as separate entities. They all decide what will and won't come out in their market.

For some reason with the Wii, NoE and NoA seem to have switched around, normally Europe is the region left waiting months (due to translations) if they actually get the game at all. It looks like Nintendo America didn't actually want to bother releasing the games (didn't feel there was enough demand for whatever reason). It's certainly not a reflection on Nintendo's global view.

Was really strange to see NoE pull their finger out to actually do the English localisations for Last Story, Xenoblade and Pandora's Tower. Even more strange, was that because NoE did the translations themselves, rather than just using the standard US English voice acting, there is a British voice acting cast so the accents sound very weird for a video game, even to a Brit! Ha

Personally I'd hate it if Nintendo bought Atlus, but for selfish reasons. I loved Persona 4: The Golden, I couldn't imagine playing Persona 5 on 3DS after that. That said, I could live with a Wii U version of it :D