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Forums - Gaming - SEGA SAMMY Purchases Atlus (Index Corp) For 14 Billion Yen ($140 Million)

DevilRising said:
I still think it would have been a major coup if Nintendo had purchased them as rumored. But there could be worse outcomes, and while Sega hasn't had a sterling record lately, hopefully they'll handle Atlus properly.


Would be a tragedy if Sony brought them.



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BasilZero said:

LMAO!



Personic



It could be good or bad, like it would be in any case with anyone buying them.

Mainly if Sega Let's Atlus Continue Running Fairly Autonomously until they don't profit through Atlus USA it will be fine and games get localized.

I'm glad it's not a first party. The smartphone thing they already do, and everybody does it. It's stupid not to when comparing the risk and margins of those games compared to console games. They just have to still release good console/handheld games.



cheesecake said:

Personic


Ohhhh good one



Prepare for Persona: Total War.

On a more serious note, this is excellent news for the Japanese market.

Add SMT and Persona, among others, to Sega's impressive list of Phantasy Star, Shining series, Ryu ga Gotoku, Seventh Dragon, Vocaloid games... Now if they make another Sakura Taisen and Valkyria game it would be perfect.



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It could have been worse. A Western publisher like EA or Ubisoft could have purchased them.



Works for me.



It's just that simple.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Guess we will never see another Atlus game again.



Another purchase, been on a roll lately............. great work SEGA.

Now release a shit ton of games. make a killing financially, AND GET TO WORK ON SHENMUE III.



CGI-Quality said:
PigPen said:
DevilRising said:
I still think it would have been a major coup if Nintendo had purchased them as rumored. But there could be worse outcomes, and while Sega hasn't had a sterling record lately, hopefully they'll handle Atlus properly.


Would be a tragedy if Sony brought them.

Why is that?

Etrian Odyssey.

SMTxFE

Trauma Centre getting potentially killed off, the dev team being used to work on other stuff they dont want to.