Fixed ;)

I would love to see the meltdowns...

They made several DS games, but their big console RPGs take like 3-4 years to make (and Xenoblade is HUGE, and X looks to be the same) so no wonder they haven't gotten that many games out. Plus I don't think Monolith were that big and they recently expanded.

Nintendo's handling of Xenoblade was bad but we'll see what happens with X. It seems like they're already planning to localize it. And at least Monolith has released a couple games in the past couple years, and X is coming out next year. Team Ico has released absolutely nothing in like 7 years...

And about Atlus, their console output as of late isn't anything to write home about...

No. They're mismanaged in the same way that Team Ico is mismanaged by Sony. They make great games and they hardly put anything out. They've only made two Wii games (which one NA didn't even get and the other took prodding and prying) and helped on SRT games with Namco + Soma Bringer. They could be far bigger than are, but they're forced to have fewer projects than they should and the games they make are very rarely if ever promoted by Nintendo.

Let's not confuse NoA with the entirety of Nintendo here... The Japanese and European branches did a fine job supporting Xenoblade. The game got TV ads in Japan, interviews with both developers and composers through Iwata Asks, a limited edition bundle with a classic controller pro and signed posters in PAL areas, a localization with 2 voice tracks and 5 language tracks, reversible covers voted by fans, and a commemorative coin along with ones for The Last Story and Pandora's Tower. And while I do agree with the criticism towards NoA's late and somewhat limited release (as well as not localizing their other games of course, specially Disaster), they did end up doing a few of these things as well afterwards, and they have been much more supportive of "X" so far.

Monolith is certainly better with Nintendo than how they were with Namco, which had them censor all 3 Xenosaga games in order to avoid an M rating, didn't include the original VA on any of their US releases, didn't publish their games in PAL areas (with Nintendo doing it for Baten Kaitos there, and later with Origins in the US), and only localized one out of 4 DS games. And their current work on Namco's games is a consequence of their transition, with Namco originally holding a stake in them. A consequence I for one have no problem with, as I'm interested in said games...

In fact, I would even go further and say that Nintendo has easily being one of the biggest JRPG supporters of this past gen (which addmitely isn't a lot...). Not only they funded these new IPs and their usual releases of Pokémon, Fire Emblem and Mario RPGs, but they also brought back niche series like Golden Sun and Glory of Heracles, and published 3rd party RPGs in the West like Dragon Quest, Solatorobo, Inazuma Eleven and Children of Mana. And now they're publishing Bravely Default in the West and Shin Megami Tensei IV in PAL areas and Korea. It's actually quite ridiculous how little credit Nintendo gets from JRPG fans in general after all this while Sony gets praised for getting 3rd party JRPGs that have nothing to do with them, refusing to localize most of their own JRPGs (Wild Arms, Brave Story, Demon's Souls, Ore no Shikabane), and investing less and less on the genre.

PS: Monolith also helped on the development of Brawl and Skyward Sword, which is something to consider while evaluating their output.

Let's not confuse NoA with the entirety of Nintendo here... The Japanese and European branches did a fine job supporting Xenoblade. The game got TV ads in Japan, interviews with both developers and composers through Iwata Asks, a limited edition bundle with a classic controller pro and signed posters in PAL areas, a localization with 2 voice tracks and 5 language tracks, reversible covers voted by fans, and a commemorative coin along with ones for The Last Story and Pandora's Tower. And while I do agree with the criticism towards NoA's late and somewhat limited release (as well as not localizing their other games of course, specially Disaster), they did end up doing a few of these things as well afterwards, and they have been much more supportive of "X" so far.

Monolith is certainly better with Nintendo than how they were with Namco, which had them censor all 3 Xenosaga games in order to avoid an M rating, didn't include the original VA on any of their US releases, didn't publish their games in PAL areas (with Nintendo doing it for Baten Kaitos there, and later with Origins in the US), and only localized one out of 4 DS games. And their current work on Namco's games is a consequence of their transition, with Namco originally holding a stake in them. A consequence I for one have no problem with, as I'm interested in said games...

In fact, I would even go further and say that Nintendo has easily being one of the biggest JRPG supporters of this past gen (which addmitely isn't a lot...). Not only they funded these new IPs and their usual releases of Pokémon, Fire Emblem and Mario RPGs, but they also brought back niche series like Golden Sun and Glory of Heracles, and published 3rd party RPGs in the West like Dragon Quest, Solatorobo, Inazuma Eleven and Children of Mana. And now they're publishing Bravely Default in the West and Shin Megami Tensei IV in PAL areas and Korea. It's actually quite ridiculous how little credit Nintendo gets from JRPG fans in general after all this while Sony gets praised for getting 3rd party JRPGs that have nothing to do with them, refusing to localize most of their own JRPGs (Wild Arms, Brave Story, Demon's Souls, Ore no Shikabane), and investing less and less on the genre.

PS: Monolith also helped on the development of Brawl and Skyward Sword, which is something to consider while evaluating their output.