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SEGA Sammy acquires Index (Atlus) for 14 billion yen, now a subsidiary of Sega
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EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Something I've learned over the years is that enthusiast gamers can too often be militant and hyperbolic when it comes to change. Both Atlus and SEGA have a rich, admirable history of collaborations and partnerships with other developers, pursuing new series' and genres aimed across a wide spectrum of tastes.
We should view this partnership as yet another exciting step in the world of game creation. Who knows what their combined visions will conjure for our favourite franchises, and what surprising sequels we may see!
We should view this partnership as yet another exciting step in the world of game creation. Who knows what their combined visions will conjure for our favourite franchises, and what surprising sequels we may see!
HellsimusPrime
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Yeah i bet thats the reason.
ArcaneFreeze
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How would Nintendo kill the Persona series? They've been very supportive of SMT theres no reason to believe they wouldn't support Persona equally especially given its standing. The only way Persona would be killed would be all the butthurt people who refuse to buy it for being on a Nintendo system. SMT transitioned well from Playstation to Nintendo theres no reason to believe Persona wouldn't have done the same.
charlequin
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Right, I think this is a pretty good summary of the bull and bear case on this scenario. (I personally think the likely realistic scenario is closer to the bull case, but we'll have to see.)
Namco were actually pretty high on my list of candidates, heh.
fvng
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Because that series sells like shit here. Why does this concept elude people?
Let's be fair: Sega-Sammy sucked in the 00's. But recently they've been pretty good. They gave Arc back the Guilty Gear IP. They haven't done too much with their PC developers, something SEGA (-Sammy) never had experience in before.
I'd say this is more a "wait and see" before doing the doom and gloom dance over the next year or two for Atlus and their titles.
I'd say this is more a "wait and see" before doing the doom and gloom dance over the next year or two for Atlus and their titles.
Femmeworth
Banned
You're just hoping this leads to Atlus working with Bioware. Can't fool me, EatChildren.
BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO
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Something I've learned over the years is that enthusiast gamers can too often be militant and hyperbolic when it comes to change. Both Atlus and SEGA have a rich, admirable history of collaborations and partnerships with other developers, pursuing new series' and genres aimed across a wide spectrum of tastes.
We should view this partnership as yet another exciting step in the world of game creation. Who knows what their combined visions will conjure for our favourite franchises, and what surprising sequels we may see!
I'm crying
Mutanthands
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Something I've learned over the years is that enthusiast gamers can too often be militant and hyperbolic when it comes to change. Both Atlus and SEGA have a rich, admirable history of collaborations and partnerships with other developers, pursuing new series' and genres aimed across a wide spectrum of tastes.
We should view this partnership as yet another exciting step in the world of game creation. Who knows what their combined visions will conjure for our favourite franchises, and what surprising sequels we may see!
Oh god, my eyes! It burns!
CA Australia was relatively successful. Their games sold more than most Atlus games do.
Not worthy.
Seriously, I don't see a single issue with SEGA/Atlus releasing their games on a 3DS/other platform not sony. What makes it so blasphemous? Does it just boil down to fanatical preferences or something?
I'll buy MegaTen/Persona on anything. Here's hoping SEGA can deliver.
Palette Swap
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XSEED doesn't port games to PC.
HellsimusPrime
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So when is Chie coming to Project Diva?
Something I've learned over the years is that enthusiast gamers can too often be militant and hyperbolic when it comes to change. Both Atlus and SEGA have a rich, admirable history of collaborations and partnerships with other developers, pursuing new series' and genres aimed across a wide spectrum of tastes.
We should view this partnership as yet another exciting step in the world of game creation. Who knows what their combined visions will conjure for our favourite franchises, and what surprising sequels we may see!
Lost it when I saw Shadow, good god
BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO
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Every SMT except nocturne has been on nintendo, nocturne just happens to be worse selling mainline SMT too.
whoa whoa, kids are in here.
Shalashaska161
Member
Sega better localize stuff. Otherwise I think they'll be a decent owner.
Looking at Etrian Odyssey III from the same banned site, a game from about the exactly the same time, it apparently sold 91k vs VCII's 86k. That may not seem like a huge difference, but the EO games (before Untold anyway) had very little dialogue, text or VA. They likely cost considerably less to localize. I wonder what could have been done with VC if Atlus had their hands on it?
I'm throwing money at the screen, but it is doing nothing.
chrominance
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Do we have figures on whether any Atlus franchises reliably sell better than either? Persona seems reasonable to expect, but what about the others? Plus, Atlus might have gotten away with smaller profits as a small company; now that they're part of Sega, who's to say their general strategy won't suddenly change to fit that of the parent corporation? Atlus franchises that made it over before like Devil Survivor may suddenly fail to meet whatever unknown minimum sales expectations Sega has for all its series.
That said, I suppose Sega did greenlight Hatsune Miku. So maybe their "core franchises only for the West" approach from 2012 has changed.
Nintendo doesn't really have any of their first-party studios make games like Persona do they? It seems their first parties usually stick with G and PG style content.
ReturnOfTheRAT
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Catherine and Dragon's Crown were very good to me.
All I can do is to hope for the best.
All I can do is to hope for the best.
BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO
Junior Member
I hope you didn't think this was funny.
S/Catherine/Trauma Center: Under the Knife 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10.
old
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Not good news. Look at how Sega royally fucked up Valkyria Chronicles in the West. They moved it from a successful outing on the PS3 to the PSP, a platform any halfwit knew meant failure in the West, then saw VC2's Western sales sink. To top off their idiocy, they released VC3 on PSP as well and didn't even bother bringing it to the West.
They had a golden JRPG brand loved by critics and gamers alike, and with good sales to boot. And SEGA fucked it up.
Now those morons are in charge of Atlas.
They had a golden JRPG brand loved by critics and gamers alike, and with good sales to boot. And SEGA fucked it up.
Now those morons are in charge of Atlas.
Um...
Anyway.
Sega had no confidence in 7th Dragon, even though it was made by some Etrian folks. I think that about wraps it up for Etrian over here.
alfredofroylan
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Sir, you're a horrible human being. That is the most horryfing thing I've seen this day..... thank you,Something I've learned over the years is that enthusiast gamers can too often be militant and hyperbolic when it comes to change. Both Atlus and SEGA have a rich, admirable history of collaborations and partnerships with other developers, pursuing new series' and genres aimed across a wide spectrum of tastes.
We should view this partnership as yet another exciting step in the world of game creation. Who knows what their combined visions will conjure for our favourite franchises, and what surprising sequels we may see!
Hero of Legend
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Actually, a GOOD Sonic RPG by Atlus on 3DS would fucking own.
charlequin
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By taking a franchise that sells into a very specific market, and whose selling points are heavily connected to a certain type of console production values, and handing it over to a platform-holder that does not (and will not in the foreseeable future) have a successful console?
If your analysis of that is that people are "butthurt," you basically don't have a clear enough picture of the situation to talk about it.
Alright, maybe I'm just being overly optimistic/naive, but I don't get all the doom and gloom about this. Atlus USA is, I'm pretty sure, a profitable branch that has made it's bread and butter off localizing great games. Atlus has a great team that appears to be able to pull profit off niche localizations too.
Sega presumably wants to profit off this acquisition, so why dismantle a system that is working? If anything this could lead to localizations of Sega titles we may not have seen beforehand, utilizing the efficient/cost effective resources Atlus already has in place.
Sega presumably wants to profit off this acquisition, so why dismantle a system that is working? If anything this could lead to localizations of Sega titles we may not have seen beforehand, utilizing the efficient/cost effective resources Atlus already has in place.
BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO
Junior Member
I'm pretty sure the games that they bring over are already on PC. They just localize them.
It's funny how Square Enix years ago would've been miles ahead the top option for many fans. My how times have changed.
HellsimusPrime
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fvng
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I was personally hoping for the same as well. More experimental concepts like Catherine. I'm all RPG'd out
Dragon's Crown brings up an interesting point. The unfortunate casualty here will certainly be ATLUS the niche game publisher, rather than developer. Internal stuff will be fine, but their external work has been really enjoyable. Will be sad to see it go.
Laughing Banana
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