Miku is on PS3 nad I think Persona would get PS3 ports before it gets PC ports and tbh, I don't even see that happening. I also think the western branch at Sega was responsible for JSR and nights, so if they want to do it maybe... I don't see it happening though.
US LTD wise Catherine was 60/40 in favor of PS3 and P4A up front was 65/35 in favor of PS3.IIRC, P4A and Catherine all sold like absolute shit on 360(in both Japan and the West, maybe Nirolak could back me up on some numbers?), and they were only multiplatform because the engine they were using is(Catherine used gamebryo and P4A used whatever engine arksys was using, plus it was a fighting game) and they wanted to test the waters in the west. Those games sold like 3 copies on 360 and the are building their own engine for P5, not saying it's impossible but don't be surprised if you don't see P5 on 360, let alone PC. And knowing Arksys, the new persona fighting game won't make it to 360 either(the new Blaze blue and Guilty gear aren't touching the platform).
Oh okay, my bad
It's fine to be pessimistic and all, but right now you're this close to tinfoil hat conspiracies.
sörine;82496709 said:
It's using business logic, at least what we've observed with other mergers in the past: Sega has a US branch. Atlus has a US branch. And typically you don't need to have two US branches for your company, and with Sega being the bigger company buying Atlus they may see Atlus USA as redundant and wipe them out, retaining a few of the staff if we're lucky, and given how often good localization can be undervalued there's the possibility they'd fail to see ANYONE there worth keeping. If Atlus USA were a significant development house that'd probably be a different story, much like why SE had 0 reason to eliminate Eidos Montreal just because they formed Square Enix Montreal, but they may look at what Atlus USA has and just go "we have this already."
Didn't the Ys games do really, really well as well?
Yeah, at those numbers it's definitely worth the porting, even if there was the possibility that some chunk of them would've just gotten on PS3 instead.
That's true, it's way easier to push 200k of something at $5 than at $50. Most likely Ys is a better example, and Trails will probably be the true test.
That basically confirms that it's a temporary name used to hold the Index business transfer until they finalize the details of the move. Could they be eventually changing the name back to Atlus?
How is this a worst case? One of my few serious complaints about Atlus is that they won't sell me an English smartphone port of old SMT games!
Admittedly this happens even on more successful platforms (we cared so much about Innocent Sin on PSP due to missing out on it during the PS1 days and same for Soul Hackers, and whether or not Yakuza 5 comes here Kenzan won't), but VC IS unique there in that it did fairly well on PS3, then... moved to PSP anyway. And poisoned the well in the US with a sequel that was pared down and had a rotten scenario, even if the core gameplay was still pretty good. I'm not against going to handheld, but it is maddening to have a series do well on a platform that's actually relevant here, then leave for a platform that isn't either due to apathy or piracy reaching a critical mass and subsequently get passed over.
People assume SEGA had 140 million to spend on a whim or something.
They could do ads I guess.
