You forgot someone.

Nintendo? Crapcom?..Sony? oh God,... not M$.

You're right, I missed Square-Enix and Ubisoft!

I wasn't counting hardware producers given that GungHo don't have their own format and the insinuation was any software company would require 5m+ sellers to be relevant.

"but they success isn´t rooted in many long established 5Million+ selling franchises..."

The fact that so few publishers do have established successful 5m+ franchises to rely on shows how off point that particular part is.

Capcom haven't had a 5 million seller this generation other than the 2008 PSP Monster Hunter Freedom Unite (2008), Konami have only had MGS4 (2007), So they're not franchises they can continually rely on and a long time ago in gaming standards. I suppose there's also Bethesda but their sales are predominantly Elder Scrolls related, one could say they are all now "one trick ponies" as far as breaking 5m sales :p

This I agree with. The argument as a whole strikes me as unpersuasive.

That is certainly true.  It is a strange situation, and I am not even sure how much say Index will have in the matter.  Getting busted for fraud and then having to go into bankruptcy is probably going to limit their choices on what to do.

Why should Nintendo buy Atlus. There is a good chance that whomever buys them will support multi platforms. Nintendo can save their money.

Can't link as I'm on my phone. But there was a news post somewhere that 20 companies have budded for Atlus and one of the bids is over $200m. It also outed SegaSammy as one of the bidders but did not confirm anyone else nor who has got them at this time.

I think SEGA getting them would be pretty funny given all the Nintendo murmers from people.

Happy that Atlus ain't gonna die then.

benefits áre very high. i Would love for nintendo to buy them