As long as I can get Persona 5 on the Playstation Vita, I don't care.

I hope they stay 3rd party as they seem to put some great games on multiple platforms. If they do go exclusive then I'd obviously prefer for them to go to Sony. It seems feasible, and they'd have a very good partnership.

Where were all the sales or praise when MonolithSoft was developing DS games before they became first party?  It wasn't until MonolithSoft became first party that Nintendo fans started paying attention to them.  Now they're the best RPG developer ever.  It's actually for this reason that Nintendo wouldn't be such a bad choice for Atlus being first party.  They'd be immediately relevant once they're first party, like all other first party developers.  Because of this I wouldn't have to worry about their games making their way west.

I'd prefer Sony though since I'd rather see the games on a higher quality portable or console.

Those weren't very good. Lot of people have said so. Ask Soriku. They were decent but they had their faults.

Disaster Day of Crisis, Soma Bringer, some random DBZ game...we aren't praising those and those were made after the 2007 acquisition.

It isn't until Xenoblade till I even knew that they existed. And hell Xenoblade was a fantastic game. 92 meta on a Wii JRPG is almost unthinkable. (Hell did we have a higher scoring one during the 7th gen?)

If they can repeat that level of quality then yeah the gamble paid off, but you're wrong that we like them just because they're 1st party. We like them because they gave us Xenoblade and they may give us experiences like that again.

http://techland.time.com/2012/12/04/top-10-tech-lists/slide/xenoblade-chronicles-wii/ #2 at TIME magazine for the best game of 2012 so yeah Xenoblade was a hell of a good game.

I just hope that if Nintendo does ever buy Atlus, that they would tell them to keep Persona on the Wii U, and not on the 3ds. The other games could work on the 3ds, persona 1-3, maybe 4, however I would want a full console Persona 5. I hope they do not put it on handhelds.

I also hope Namco doesn't buy Atlus. Namco Bandai is TERRIBLE with rpg localization's. They refuse to bring the Tales of series over here no matter what, even the Vita versions. Yea we are getting Xillia, but dang Japan already has Xillia 2!! Smh...

Soriku said: brendude13 said: As long as I can get Persona 5 on the Playstation Vita, I don't care. I hope they stay 3rd party as they seem to put some great games on multiple platforms. If they do go exclusive then I'd obviously prefer for them to go to Sony. It seems feasible, and they'd have a very good partnership. Don't worry. You'll get it on the PS3.

I feel it's more of a portable series. It would make sense because of how popular it is in Japan too.

What about Nippon ichi ? They grew like a lot lately, and they are pretty close to Atlus, NISA even released some of their games out of Japan, while it was Atlus that originally edited Nippon Ichi games

Sony should do it and up the publishing.

Nintendo could use some fresh first-party IPs

Hopefully Nintendo

Namco or Sega feel most likely to me, just hope Atlus sticks around as one of my favorites.