Atlus, the company behind the Persona and Megami Tensei series, is to be dissolved due to its ongoing financial problems.
Atlus, a 100% owned subsidiary of Index Holdings, will henceforth be dissolved and its assets transferred to Index Holdings.
However, it has also been announced that future game releases by the consolidated company will continue to use the “Atlus” brand where appropriate – its history as a distinct entity is at an end though.
Index Holdings itself is better known for the usual execrable mobile phone and “social” games, and it is also the parent company of anime studio Madhouse. Although the merger is supposed to provide Atlus access to these “fortes,” it seems unlikely fans of major Atlus titles will find anything to look forward to in these competencies.
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i hope any future company which hold the franchise will give their best to the titles. Shin megami tensei is a good game.
This is the first article on this site to ever make my stomach feel bad. It almost felt like I was just told that a close relative just died... :(
Same here, as soon as i read the article title off to the right i was saying to myself slowly: "what the $#%^. . ."
Damn man... this just sucks.
Unfortunately, game making has a thin profit margin these days...
Atlus can use Madhouse, but vice versa as well. I'd love to see the games animated. It would provide a nice synergy effect for new games as well.
I can't help but say...To Atlus no Index...
*sighs sadly*
All kidding aside, this made me feel very sad knowing the people who made games I love like Sky Gunners and the Persona/Shin Megami Tensei Series have this tragic fate...
But I hope they will continue with the same awesomeness they put in their future games despite this...
unless your blizzard. (Captain Obvious signing off.)
04:12 yeah and pirating games really helps the company
I can't help but say...To Atlus no Index...
*sighs sadly*
All kidding aside, this made me feel very sad knowing the people who made games I love like Sky Gunners and the Persona/Shin Megami Tensei Series have this tragic fate...
But I hope they will continue with the same awesomeness they put in their future games despite this...
I'm guessing you're referring mostly to PC platform games? So true....
The contents of this article affirm that it is not a problem exclusive for a single platform...
That's so true...but it does amaze me how much $¥ a successful game does bring in...just that they cost so much to make. And for every one that is successful there are probably 2 or 3 costly failures.
From Atlus to Index Group?
Can't get a harder downgrade from catchy game company name to one of the least catchiest.
yeah, hope some large videogame developer/publisher would buy Atlus out like what Square Enix did to Eidos.
Yeah, and then we are back to some really crappy generic localizations. At least Atlus DID realize that the only ones that played their games were otakus and respected that.
If someone would buy Atlus, I hope it is Konami, and I don't trust it too much either, to be honest...
Sega buys Nippon Ichi, Atlus, Gust and Idea Factory.
????
PROFIT... or not really...
Dear God no!
If Sega did buy Atlus, Nippon Ichi and the rest, then they'd be in deeper shit. While the developers DO make great games, many of Sega's decisions regarding IPs and company managing have abyssmal in quality.
they deserve it after puuting out crap like persona 3. lol. NO TOWNZS!!!
...Somebody please tell me this is a fucking joke.
Man...I was really excited about Catherine and Persona 5 in the works...I'm hoping the game is still produced as scheduled, and only the name behind the funding changes...
It's interesting that producers of some of the best games find themselves in the most dire of financial straits...or even collapse. Atlus may not have had a list of AAA-selling games, but their production is far more than comparable to other developers...
I begin to wonder if this is less "Atlus will dissappear" than "Atlus will be absorbed by greater powers that be", as it has been happening to alot of developers lately. First it was the extremely high cost of production for this generation that was pushing developers together, perhaps now it's the economy?
X&V,
K.D.S.
interesting cause i'm on there mailing list and they haven't said jack
If they didn't make making a game so pricy they wouldn't have been hit this bad. Damnit I hope SMT will be ok.
NO! Crap! Atlus created, translated, and ported my favorite games!
Atlus USA just translated your favorite games and published it in the US, Altus created and ported your favorite games.
With all of those craptacular strategy RPGs they've pumped out in the last 5 years, it's no wonder they went belly up.
WAT THE FUCKIN FUCK IS THIS?!
ATLUS CAN'T DIE!!!
IT'S MY SEC FAV AFTER SQUARENIX T3T
OH MAN, CAN'T BELIEVE THIS......*heart attack*
So...what does this mean for Catherine?
And what about Persona 5?
Damn it, the best things are always the first to go...
No shit!
ultimately it doesn't affect anything. more corporate shuffling really. games will still be made.
Fuck
Maybe my generations of games are dying...
Hironobu Sakaguchi don't do Final Fantasy anymore, and now Atlus go like this.
If i wasnt a man i would cry...
That's because he formed Mistwalker and their two traditional JRPG games were sales flops. The Last Story looks pretty good, thou it's on the underpowered Wii.
It's being merged, nothing bad is happening to atlus, you won't lose your waifu games.
Sensationalistcomplex indeed.
PROFOUND SADNESS
This kinda sucks, but merger!=death.
Atlus is definitely the best publisher in the US IMO. Let's just hope they keep pumping out great titles from Japan, because there's almost 0 other US companies doing it.
Gotta love the Sankaku spin on this story. I mean really.
It's not spin, Atlus as we currently know it is no more. Like the article said Atlus will be absorbed into the parent company and will continue to make games.
Directly from a site admin of atlus USA forums, "This is what Red and I are saying, over and over. Atlus is not becoming a mobile games company. The original story doesn't even say that. This is purely a corporate maneuvering so that Index, which is a mobile games company, has easier access to Atlus IPs. That's all."
They're fucked.
They have incompetent management in the parent company.
I hope I wasn't the only person who noticed that the diagram made no sense what-so-ever, other than the ATLUS name being crossed out.
I (unfortunately) have sat through PowerPoint presentations like this before.
I was the one who crossed it out.
They actually own an even more bizarre array of companies than included there - including a TV studio, a movie studio, a publishing company, an advertising agency and, strangest of all, Grenoble Foot 38, a French football team. You name, they want to buy it.
Apparently their CEO faced shareholder criticism over all these questionable acquisitions - he has since promised no major acquisitions for the time being.
Thanks to the Pirates
You don't even try to inform yourself better before posting stuff like that, huh?
Atlus had severe financial problems because of mismanagement at the top. Meaning, it's the old farts in the suits that drove the bandwagon into the mud.
Piracy destroying companies is just the most common and overused excuses of the last few centuries.
That's why i'm propagating to sack the managers when they fail so hard. If something goes wrong, you can bet that the "elite" was doing its best to ruin everything for the few normal, talented employees. This basic rule applies to every single institution on thjs planet.
Sack the managers and CEOs!
Note: "last few centuries" is correct. This goes back at least to the 1700s.
You guys don't read comments do you?
First I was shocked, but when I read that they are still going to make games my hope came back xD
first comment:"ATLUS! NOOOO!!!"
second comment:"they're still going to release Catherine :D"
third comment:"ALTUS! NOOOO!!!"
...I mean.. wtf? aren't you happy?
WHAT
Just check this link from the Atlus US Forum: http://www.atlus.com/forum/showpost.php?s=02721d73802cb60d56552aa1b2240dc5&p=215041&postcount=10 [http://www.atlus.com/forum/showpost.php?s=02721d73802cb60d56552aa1b2240dc5&p=215041&postcount=10]
"Don't worry, guys. This is just some corporate organizational maneuvering and won't affect anything we do."
thats the same like when the german invaded polland
Why does always the companies that make good games have problems? :(
Oh no =( What will happen to Shin Megami Tensei? Call me cynical but I don't think we'll be seeing any good SMT games in the future aside from what's already in the works.
hopefully this won't affect their releases here in the west.
we want more games like trauma series, shin megami, persona and such :)
oh man there goes demons souls 2...........