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Surprisingly high price. Does Atlus have any IPs that actually sell well?
They bought Index as whole not just Atlus and yes Atlus IPs do sell well considering their budgets.
Surprisingly high price. Does Atlus have any IPs that actually sell well?
Damn, Sony could have bought them. As a future PS4 owner, I want Atlus' games on the PS4.
It's almost like the PSP has been dead in the West for several years.
I actually think either Sony or Nintendo would've been about equally bad in different ways
Something something, Konami, something something Hudson.
Lol i laughedOne of these things isn't like the other...
More likely SEGA USA turns into ATLUS. Kill the localization teams at SEGA, hand all of SEGA's Japanese titles other than big ones like Sonic over to Atlus to handle. Makes way more sense. SEGA has a shit reputation in the western release of Japanese games, as you can see from this thread. Ridding themselves of that trouble and handing the keys over to one of the most well regarded brands around makes so much sense. Also, Atlus knows how to make money on small games. That skill is super valuable.
It hasn't been all roses, Sega shut down Secret Level, Sega Racing Studio and Creative Assembly's Australian studio. The studios they tend to leave alone seem to be the ones who make PC or smartphone games.Yes. Read Charlequin's posts.
sörine;82428905 said:It hasn't been all roses, Sega shut down Secret Level, Sega Racing Studio and Creative Assembly's Australian studio. The studios they tend to leave alone seem to be the ones who make PC or smartphone games.
Seriously, name a bad thing SEGA's done that would be equitable to the ATLUS side. I'm a huge Yakuza fan, but even I'll admit that those games are huge localization efforts. The work that needs to be put into those games far exceeds all but the biggest ATLUS titles. Heck, even the Persona series is probably an easier job. Valkyira Chronicles 3? Again, pretty damn large game and on a dead platform. It's almost a guarantee 2 lost them money. PSO2? An MMO is the BIGGEST of localization efforts. Add on top of that the fact most of the US fans that would play it are already playing and paying via the english patch.
ATLUS games make money, in the US as well. Even their niche titles, like the EO games, do quite well for the size of the franchise. As long as that doesn't change, things are going to be just fine.
SEGA has released 8 niche jrpg titles in the last 3 years, none of them was released in the West.
[PSP] 7th Dragon 2020-II (SEGA) {2013-04-18}
[PSV] Phantasy Star Online 2: Special Package (SEGA) {2013-02-28}
[PSP] Shining Ark (SEGA) {2013-02-28}
[PSP] Shining Blade (SEGA) {2012-03-15}
[PSP] 7th Dragon 2020 (SEGA) {2011-11-23}
[PSP] Phantasy Star Portable 2: Infinity (SEGA) {2011-02-24}
[PSP] Valkyria Chronicles III (SEGA) {2011-01-27}
[PSP] Shining Hearts (SEGA) {2010-12-16}
It's on the list of games published by Atlus, my mistake it's the Saturn and PS1 version.One of these things isn't like the other...
Mostly. If I was Japanese I wouldn't worry at all, but Atlus USA is the new variable in these SEGA buyouts. The best case scenario is something akin to Hudson that actually works in the long term due to Atlus being generally more successful and viable. Worst case scenario may in fact not even be Sega making them mobile developers, but letting Atlus Japan be left alone and run like they are, but to destroy Atlus USA and fail to localize all but the biggest Atlus games. Then not license them period so we can't even get the smaller ones through companies like XSEED, Aksys, or a hypothetical new company formed from Atlus USA staff. At least when stuck to mobile there'd be a good chance of Atlus staff leaving and going to other companies or forming new ones, who'd then have fresh chances for their games to be localized.
In the U.S.?Well, I dont see how this could be a good thing for Atlus except maybe better marketing for their games.
Sega has left some of its acquisitions alone, like Creative Assembly, so hopefull this will be one of those cases.
Still though, scary.
I don't know anything about Yakuza but Valkyria Chronicles 3 would probably not be any bigger than the titles Atlus has recently localized and would have been far from the last PSP game released in America.
And if the localized MMO Tera has been so successful, I don't see how PSO2 wouldn't have been.
It's on the list of games published by Atlus, my mistake it's the Saturn and PS1 version.
Why couldn't it be Nintendo?
SEGA's in a financial slump right now, Could they afford to budget a game like Persona 5?
I don't want Atlus associated with the failure that is Sega.
Why couldn't it be Nintendo?
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I find it funny how so many people in here are freaking out about Sega Sammy making Atlus work on mobile games when Index pushed the mobile whoring out of Atlus IPs pretty hard.
I'm being sarcastic they've been mind bogglingly inactive on 3DS for anything but Sonic, some music games, and Puyo.
I believe Sony has some investment in the Persona series.
The only worse companies would've been Nintendo or Microsoft... This is really bad news. Today's Sega is not company I grew up with and respected.
No surprise when all except one are PSP games, and then a Vita game.
Well, at the very least they're not flat-out ignoring it
Is that a NO due to you know some facts or NO due to "NO I DON'T WANT PERSONA ON 3DS!"? Hahaha.
And it's not necessarily Persona 5, but maybe Persona-related spin-off?
Huh, really, in what way?
Is that investment completely blocks anything and everything titled 'persona' to appear on anything outside Sony platforms? Even something like spin-offs?
PSO2, never for...forgotten already.
Why couldn't it be Nintendo?
SEGA's in a financial slump right now, Could they afford to budget a game like Persona 5?
I don't want Atlus associated with the failure that is Sega.
I would buy persona on any platform it's on, even ios.
Good bye niche Atlus game. Hello, Japanese Learning Course.