Capcom. I rather my Personas on playstation.

Capcom, because Atlus has very little that I'm interested in, and Nintendo could work wonders with Mega Man.

I'm torn, Monster Hunter, Mega Man, Street Fighter and Devil May Cry would make great additions to the Nintendo franchise.

But then again Atlus also has some strong IPs in the RPG genre with Shin Megami Tensei/Persona, Etrian Odyssey and... I think Power Instinct. Ok, so in terms of IPs, Capcom is the better grab but I REALLY like SMT/Persona and EO.

But really, I would prefer Nintendo just buy out ALL of Sega, from Sammy, so they get ALL of the Sega franchises, plus the Atlus ones all at once. But Sega Sammy gets money off the mobile division and their pachinko machines, so Nintendo would probably save more money buying out Capcom then trying at absorbing Sega, unless some deal was set that Sammy sold off Sega to Nintendo while retaining rights to use the IP for the pachinko/arcade divisions.

It is a shame that the Japanese government wouldn't let Bandai Namco and Nintendo merge a while back, while it would have been a multimedia colossus, it would have been AWESOME to have Taki in Smash Bros.

I think Nintendo could probably do a lot of good things with the Capcom franchises, especially things like Mega Man and Street Fighter. They're very gameplay focused and very much pick-up-and-play kind of games.

On the other hand, Nintendo would be possibly the worst company to buy Atlus. Atlus is heavily story focused, not kid-friendly in the slightest, and very liberally minded, whereas Nintendo is completely gameplay focused, family-friendly, and extremely conservative. There is no chance Atlus could discuss it's sexual, psychological, and religious themes under Nintendo's watch, and there's absolutely no chance Arioch and Marra would be allowed to continue to exist.

Realistically, I don't think either will be bought, since Capcom would be too much of a financial risk for Nintendo, and I think Sega is quite content with keeping Atlus for the time being.

Because stuff like Bayonetta 2, Eternal Darkness, Fatal Frame, Conker's Bad Fur Day totally didn't happen.
Edit: also the Mother series.

StarOcean said: Oh god no. Neither. They're in no position to aquire any big dev right now. People are begging for Metroid and Animal Crossing on top of F-Zero and a billion other IPs Nintendo hides in the closet that isn't Mario, Pokemon, or Zelda and are getting nothing. Perhaps if Nintendo changes next gen my opinion will change, but as it stands they don't need any more IPs that they'll just sit on

1) They sit on those properties because they generally lack the resources to make the more niche stuff, especially in the HD age. Not that anyone could have seen that coming from a mile away, of course.

2) I'd hardly say Animal Crossing is hidden in the closet. Nor Metroid for that matter, but I know this site in particular has some obnoxious and oblivious folks who will argue otherwise, so I'll avoid that one for the moment.

Atlus because I like their JRPGs

All of those games were third part with the sole exception of Conker's Bad Fur Day, which was kind of second party (Nintendo owned 49% of Rare).

Mother is an exception, sort of. Mother is weird.

I'm looking more at what happened to Monolith. Sure, undeniably their gameplay was better under the ownership of Nintendo, but Xenoblade lost almost all of the complex sexual, psychological, philosophical, and religious depth that made Xenogears iconic.

Atlus is pretty much old Monolith, excpet the writing is much, much better.

Also, fanservice is not the same thing as exploring complex sexual, psychological, and religious themes.

Altus already supports Nintendo a lot, and the quality of their games is superb 9 times out of 10.

Capcom on the other hand has issues with certain franchises and they only seem to support Nintendo occasionally (mostly with Monster Hunter). I think it would be mutually beneficial, as Nintendo would help them build up the quality of their games, and in return they would get a new batch of IPs that can help sell their systems (Resident Evil particularly would be huge).

I would rather they buy Atlus as I enjoy their games more,
BUT Capcom would be the more profitable idea.