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Who should get it?

Nintendo 231 43.34%
 
Sony 187 35.08%
 
Microsoft 21 3.94%
 
Squareenix 10 1.88%
 
Namco Bandai 28 5.25%
 
Capcom 3 0.56%
 
Marvelous AQL 30 5.63%
 
Other 22 4.13%
 
Total:532
Ssenkahdavic on 19 July 2013
badgenome said:
TheKoreanGuy said:

Agreed. They should go to EA! Just think of the possibilities...


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Krusnik on 19 July 2013
brendude13 said:
PosGamePlatformYearGenrePublisherNorth AmericaEuropeJapanRest of WorldGlobal
1 Demon's Souls PS3 2009 Role-Playing Namco Bandai Games 0.87 0.23 0.35 0.26 1.71
2 Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 PS2 2008 Role-Playing Atlus 0.34 0.08 0.36 0.04 0.82
3 Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 FES PS2 2007 Role-Playing Tecmo Koei 0.22 0.20 0.16 0.05 0.63
4 Odin Sphere PS2 2007 Role-Playing Square Enix 0.23 0.18 0.09 0.06 0.56
5 Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 Portable PSP 2009 Role-Playing Ghostlight 0.15 0.02 0.34 0.04 0.56
6 Catherine PS3 2011 Adventure Deep Silver 0.23 0.08 0.20 0.05 0.55
7 Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis GBA 2001 Role-Playing Nintendo 0.13 0.05 0.31 0.01 0.50
8 3D Dot Game Heroes PS3 2009 Role-Playing SouthPeak Games 0.31 0.06 0.03 0.08 0.48
9 Persona 4: The Golden PSV 2012 Role-Playing Atlus 0.14 0.03 0.27 0.02 0.46
10 Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 PS2 2006 Role-Playing Tecmo Koei 0.22 0.17 0.00 0.06 0.45

Atlus's 10 best selling games.

well looking at those sales figures doesnt look so attractive a prospect.....then again perception's a bitch. >_>



Ssenkahdavic on 19 July 2013
BasilZero said:
pezus said:

Capcom.

Persona 5 (2014)

Persona 5: Special Edition (2014)

Persona 5: Complete Edition (2015)

Persona 5: Sexy Edition (2015)

Persona 5: More Characters Edition (2016)

Persona 5: Because we can Edition (2018)

Namco

Persona 5 (2014 - Japan only)

Persona 5-2 (2015 - Japan Only)

Persona 5 (2016 - WW)

Persona 5-2 (2016 - WW)

Persona 4 HD (2018 - WW)

Catherine Rated R Version (2018 - Japan Only)

Persona 3 Yes We Can Edition (2019 - WW)

Shin Megami Tensei IV R edition (Somewhere in the next dimension)

Persona 5 Arena (2020 - WW Region Lock)

Persona 6 (2022 -Japan Only)

Square Enix


Persona 6 (January 2288)

Persona 6-2 (July 2289)

Persona 6-3: Persona's Returns (July 2299)

Persona 7: MMO (Jully 2025)

Persona 1-4 Remake: The series remade every year in HD until 2025



 

  

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mibuokami on 19 July 2013

God I don't want ANY of those company to buy Atlus, they're all inferior! I get Marvelous is the least offensive....




Xxain on 19 July 2013

I agree with Bad.. Gung Ho. What the Fuck was EA mentioned in this thread?

SEGA too



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Zelhawks37 on 19 July 2013

Nintendo. I want the SMT x FE game to happen. Or third party.



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tiffac on 19 July 2013

I would rather have Tecmo Koei, Gung Ho, Marvelous AQL or Nippon Ichi to buy Atlus. I would feel confident that they would continue to have Atlus do what they do best and then localize the game.



Michael-5 on 19 July 2013
McDonaldsGuy said:
Microsoft should do this to get a leg in Japan, but it won't happen. It'll probably be Capcom or another Japanese dev.

This is so weird... video gaming is soon to be limited to like only 5-6 third party publishers.

If Microsoft bought it, Atlus would go under...

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I hope Nintendo or Sony buy it, or at the very worst Square Enix. I don't know if Sony will though since the PS4 is coming soon, but exclusive Atlus support for the PSV could save it in Japan.

Nintendo has had a lot of financial trouble too, but again, exclusive Atlus support could kill off the Vita in Japan, and make 3DS/Wii U even more desirable. Nintendo needs some new IP's, and who better to supply them

Realistically, I see Sony or Square Enix Buying it.

Edit: Namco Bandai would make a good suiter.



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Otakumegane on 19 July 2013
pezus said:
Otakumegane said:
I don't think Nintendo will buy them, because they already have JRPG making 1st party studios. they're better off investing in some Western one and growing that.

I don't really think Sony will either, because they don't really have the $$, and Atlus is more of a handheld developer than a console one. (Looking at recent game releases)

I think Namco will take em, and we're never going to get the games localized.

Sony don't have the money?? The fuck. 

Atlus being a handheld dev is precisely why Sony should buy them. They could save the Vita with some exclusive RPGs

They certainly don't have the $$ to be buying up studios right now, what with the Vita not returning investment and the PS4.

I don't think what the Vita needs is more niche JRPGs. They have those already. People are calling the Vita a Persona 4 machine. They be already getting Dragon's Crown. (Vita should've had a GTA 5 spinoff to ride with the hype of GTA5, in all honesty I was expecting one to happen)

Not to say Nintendo will either though. Monolith Soft was an outlier. They didn't want to be absorbed when Namco moved HQ so they asked Nintendo for help. They not be needing to expand JRPG devs. More than that they be expanding EAD for Star Fox and Metroid (one can hope).

Yeah, but I don't think a company that recently cut it's profit outlook in games by 75% is going to be saying "lets buy a studio"

 

I'd like EA to buy them just for the sheer scale of the meltdowns.



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kupomogli on 20 July 2013
badgenome said:
Oh god. Please not Capcom

I don't think the games sell enough for Capcom to care.  If Capcom did have interest, I'd have to agree though. 

Breath of Fire is one of my favorite RPG series and I'm not really a fan of Capcom's treatment of the series.  While there was nothing wrong with development of the titles, every game in the series were nothing short of quality in my opinion, it's that Capcom's done nothing with the series for 10 years.  Breath of Fire Dragon Quarter was a new direction for the series, the first completely different game rather than just the somewhat big changes the series received going from BoF1/2 to BoF3/4, but it was still a great game.  So what that Dragon Quarter didn't sell well.  The graphics turned people off and people didn't like it because of the difficulty.  But nope, this is Capcom.  The sales for Dragon Quarter was practically the end of the series.  Breath of Fire 3 made everyone assume there would be future titles in the series, but we haven't seen or heard anything about another Breath of Fire in seven years.