>>176980
I'm okay with Sony buying them, as long as they don't cancel 3DS games.

>>176990
maybe not in production but any future stuff like maybe a port of Persona 4 to 3DS would be dead. No matter who buys someone is going to get fucked on games.

It would kinda make sense for Square to buy them, if they weren't in big financial troubles themselves. It seems a lot of Japanese game companies are really struggling these days.

>>176994
Pls no.

Square's RPG output has been terribad for the last few years.

>>177007
Their non-FF stuff is hit-or-miss.

>>177007
How many years are we talking? Because they've only put out like three or four RPGs in the last five years as far as I can remember. One of which was Dragon Quest IX, which was pretty keen.

>>177007
So long as they keep the Atlus infrastructure largely intact it really shouldn't matter who the parent company is.

>>177009
And massive over-budgeting isn't helping.

Was it really ATLUS's fault or the people that own them? They seemed to be running fairly stable and adequately.

>>177014
Atlus itself is doing fine, but the parent company isn't.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-08-05-sega-bids-on-purchasing-atlus
In case you didn't hear yet.

>>178944
This...could be good.

>>178952
It'll most likely be bad. Sega has a habit of shutting down for not meeting expectations and they have a bad localization trackrecord. I would rather some company that has nothing to do with video games and will let atlus breath acquire them then sega.

>>179005
> I would rather some company that has nothing to do with video games and will let atlus breath acquire them
I would fucking love to see Lowe's Home Improvement buy a video game dev.

>>178944
As a European I would be over the moon to finally see some Atlus games over here. Sega likes Europe. I like Sega.

>>178944
>Allegedly bids reached the neighborhood of about ¥20 billion (roughly £132 million, or $203 million), but it's unclear if this highest bid emanated from Sega or elsewhere.
>When pressed for comment, Atlus told me it had nothing to say at this time. I'm still following up with Sega, but expect a similar reply.

So what makes them think Sega even made a bid, if nobody is commenting?

>>179011
>According to a report by Japan Bloomberg (via DualShockers), about 20 companies bid on Atlus, including Sega.
Reading is tech.

SEGA Acquires Atlus

http://www.polygon.com/2013/9/17/4743136/report-sega-to-acquire-atlus-for-14b

Also the president of Atlus Japan said everything's going to continue as is, before we start doomsaying here. Not pointing fingers at you guys, but a few of the sites I lurk went mad when they heard the news.

We can go into full panic mode when and IF Sega starts to fuck up Atlus, which I don't think is likely.

Time to unclench our assholes. We made it. Now we begin the wait for the two fives: Persona V and Etrian Odyssey V.