Atlus' parent company going into bankruptcy

Why not SEGA? They were publishing their titles for a bit.

EDIT: Distributing them rather.

 

It's questionable whether Sega is in a good financial position to buy up companies again. I'd say wait to see if they sue GearBox over Aliens: Colonial Marines before considering them as an option.

 

Capcom or Konami I would say sounds the more likely candidates. Their style of games match Atlus' more than Nintendo or Sega.

 

It's like Marvelous or GungHo would pick them up; I'd prefer Marvelous. If anyone other than them is going to pick them up, should be Nintendo since they actually seem to respect Atlus. SEGA is not the right partner for them, look at Platinum.

 

SEGA worked out well as a partner until their financial situation got so lousy that they could not afford to fund Bayonetta 2. I don't think Capcom would be a good partner because of decisions they made in the past (R.I.P. Clover Studios) and Konami killed Hudson Soft so fuck them. Though if Konami revives the Bomberman series in a very positive way, all would be forgiven. Nintendo would be an interesting choice, but that would ruin their ability to make and produce games for non-Nintendo systems. As for Namco, I don't know enough about the companies (or Atlus in all honesty) to know if they would be a good fit together.

 

They barely release anything that isn't for a non-Nintendo system these days, just putting that out there. That's the only reason I think it's somewhat rational.

 

Persona 4 Arena was released for Xbox/PS3 last fall. I think Persona 4 Golden was on the Vita around that time too, or maybe I just learned about it late.

 

Betcha 2 dollars the current Capcom would try to make Persona into a AAA Western-style QTE-cinematic action game.

While still completely ignoring Breath of Fire.

As for Konami... Well, they could use a JRPG IP, I guess...? I dunno, though. They're a bit westernize-happy as well...

 

As opposed to SMT IV on 3DS, Soul Hackers on 3DS, Etrian Odyssey on 3DS, two Devil Survivor games in one year: One on 3DS and one on DS. I'm pretty sure there's more, but I must admit SMT, Persona, and Etrian Odyssey are the only games I really pay attention to; out of Atlus.

 

Now that my mind is on Persona 4 Arena, maybe Arc System Works will take the bait. >_>

Unlikely since they aren't exactly a huge developer, but it's an amusing thought.

 

So SEGA might buy Atlus? Is SEGA in decent enough financial shape to buy Atlus? o_O

 

That would be the worst fucking thing ever, though. Seriously, kiss any Western Atlus release goodbye.

 

Are there any publishers that sound like they would be a great fit for Atlus? From what I gathered, it doesn't sound like any publisher would work all that well because of all the obscure Japanese games they port to the U.S. On the plus side, at least SEGA wouldn't intervene on game development like EA, Activision, or Capcom would. Hell, SEGA as a publisher might cause Atlus to support the PC platform more since SEGA actually values PC gaming nowadays.

 

Their best bet would be a mega publisher like Marvelous or Gung Ho really. SEGA is a garbage company that doesn't release anything in the West, other than Sonic, due to "poor sales".

 

Is there a list of these 20 publishers looking to buy Atlus? I can't find a list anywhere.

 

There is no list unfortunately, Sega/Sammy was leaked by bloomberg, but that's it.

 

I'm not sure about that, seeing how there's still Atlus USA. Sega could actually use Atlus' localization team for Sega games.

Or they'll fire them because Sega can be dumb like that, we'll see.