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[Ponn]

SEGA buying them and getting them to work on a traditional, turn-based, offline Phantasy Star 5... that right there would prove the existence of God.

Except it is still Sega so it would be a browser game and never localized.

Please let it be anyone but Sega.

 

[InsaneZero]

SEGA buying them and getting them to work on a traditional, turn-based, offline Phantasy Star 5... that right there would prove the existence of God.

SEGA buying them and getting to work on a F2P touch-based mobile action game named Phantasy Star 5 would prove the existence of God as interpreted by SMT.

 

[Lunar15]

It doesn't matter if the company who buys them isn't a game developer: In fact, it's a pretty common situation. Even Activision was owned by a media conglomerate.

Atlus makes and publishes games. If that's what makes that division money, the holding company would want them to continue doing what they're doing. Just because it's not some familiar gaming name doesn't mean they won't make video games.

 

[jcm]

It doesn't matter if the company who buys them isn't a game developer: In fact, it's a pretty common situation. Even Activision was owned by a media conglomerate.

Atlus makes and publishes games. If that's what makes that division money, the holding company would want them to continue doing what they're doing. Just because it's not some familiar gaming name doesn't mean they won't make video games.

This isn't necessarily true. Even if Atlus is marginally profitable, if they tie up lots of capital in order to turn that profit its conceivable that an Index buyer wouldn't want to keep them around, or would change them so much that they effectively cease to exist.

It's very possible for a buyer of Index to have no interest in continuing game development and publishing for consoles and dedicated handhelds. It's a risky, expensive business.

 

[Nirolak]

It doesn't matter if the company who buys them isn't a game developer: In fact, it's a pretty common situation. Even Activision was owned by a media conglomerate.

And I mean that was such a success, with Vivendi trying to gouge money out of them to the point they had to go from being cash rich to having over a billion in debut in order to buy themselves out of the situation.

 

[QaaQer]

Which Japanese corporations or companies have enough war chest money to spend on acquisitions is now the question.

Aside from the CE dinosaurs, Japanese Corps are like Corps all over the world: sitting on mountains of uninvested cash.

 

[QaaQer]

And I mean that was such a success, with Vivendi trying to gouge money out of them to the point they had to go from being cash rich to having over a billion in debut in order to buy themselves out of the situation.

Activision is no longer owned by Vivendi?

 

[Sir_Crocodile]

Activision is no longer owned by Vivendi?

As of September.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/ho...ounces-Transformative-Purchase-Shares-Vivendi

 

[QaaQer]

As of September.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/ho...ounces-Transformative-Purchase-Shares-Vivendi

Nice. & thanks for the link.