When Atlus explicitly state on their official website and on Twitter that the consumer games business of the Atlus brand will live on as well as previously announced titles, I'm not going to think of potential hypotheticals that go against that.
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Atlus Japan: Atlus brand will carry on
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When Atlus explicitly state on their official website and on Twitter that the consumer games business of the Atlus brand will live on as well as previously announced titles, I'm not going to think of potential hypotheticals that go against that.
If they get bought out or there's some parent above them, it doesn't matter what say Atlus has.
AranhaHunter
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Under a different parent company, sure.
dark_prinny
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Then why would they mention anything at all now when what they stated last week is that they would give fans an update on their situation when they can? We don't know what's happening behind the scenes, so I'll take their official word on it than peoples' guesswork.
Eh. I wouldn't put too much weight on their words at this moment.
If 1) index closes for good 2) creditors sold company department by department and someone buy Atlus
whatever Atlus says at this point doesn't means anything.
It's not even an update. Nothing has changed since last week and what they said today. What they said today was a given and obvious. It's a non-news.
Dragon1893
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Well that's a relief.
Even if someone buys them, I don't think they're stupid enough to cancel P5. lol.
I think it means plenty, given that they're a company actually involved. Unless they're straight up lying or giving empty promises, which I don't think they are.
It's nothing of substance other than their word, no. But that word is what I have to go on. Last week, they said that their previously announced games' development would be unaffected (Atlus USA said the same) but they did not give any statement regarding the status of their company. Now they've come out and said that the Atlus brand will continue, so I have no reason to think otherwise.
XiaNaphryz
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It's typical PR speak for this situation. It was also said that things would "go on as normal" immediately after the Disney purchase of all the Lucasfilm companies for example. We all know how that turned out.
Some people were still worried that Atlus may be closed indefinitely or that games would be canceled, so...
I remember that. Though, I prefer the innocent before proven guilty stance, so I'll take their word for it until things actually explode.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Innocence has nothing to do with it, it's just logic. They'll continue to operate as normal. If they end up being sold off to another company, they'll also continue to operate as normal until whoever buys them out decides what to do with them. If they don't get sold off, they halt development due to lack of funding.
Wait... what points of mine are you refuting here?
All I'm saying is that Atlus said that their brand would live on and that the development of their current games will be unaffected by this mess, so that's what I believe.
lastflowers
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very good to hear. It would be sad to see Atlus dramatically affected
The teams being intact and still working on full games is what I'm really worried about. Also, I would think that saying they are continuing with business as usual is something they kind of need to say as long as they are looking for a buyer, isn't it? Kind of like saying it will be business as usual until things change.
I wanna believe, though.
I wanna believe, though.
WrenchNinja
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Well Atlus had a good run.
Seth Balmore
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XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
What people are trying to say is that given the uncertainty surrounding them, such a stance is very short-term and shouldn't be indicative of anything long-term.
lol that is awesome xD
Any platform holder owning them would be awful for fans who might not be interested in the platform that buys them.
I don't want to buy a Wii U.
super-famicom
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Good to hear. Hope Persona 5 will be released someday.
Can we not go down this route in this thread too?
I wouldn't mind if Atlus went independent again, I think they can do it.
SatelliteOfLove
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drtomoe123
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The sooner the better. Some of us have been waiting since 2008.
I dunno what made some people think that P5 would come out right after 4. There was like a 6 year gap between P2 to 3, and they didn't have any remakes/ports of 2 or anime series/movies within that timespan either.
BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO
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NO thanks
That would be terrible.
Is this old?
ATLUS Mother Company Owes a Lot of Money to a Lot of People, Including Kadokawa and Nintendo
http://gamesjournaling.blogspot.de/2013/07/atlus-mother-company-owes-lot-of-money.html
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ATLUS Mother Company Owes a Lot of Money to a Lot of People, Including Kadokawa and Nintendo
http://gamesjournaling.blogspot.de/2013/07/atlus-mother-company-owes-lot-of-money.html
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Not inherently a nightmare situation (some of the other third parties or, say, Microsoft would be), but far from ideal. Atlus games vanish from PSN so third party games are lost and first party games need to be ported, and who knows how often they'd reliably localize.
Given the debts they have to other entertainment companies I wonder how far fetched the idea of Aniplex getting them to be their gaming division would be? Not sure that'd be great either though, especially given their treatment of US anime releases.
dark_prinny
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Andrefpvs
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Izanagi!
He actually posted a thread just about that.
I wonder why they owe SEGA some dosh
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