Persona fans are watching with bated breath as Sega has stepped in to put Index out of its misery and rescue Atlus, although there are some lingering concerns about Sega Sammy’s interest in social gaming and pachinko…
Sega has concluded an agreement with the Tokyo bankruptcy court overseeing Index’s “rehabilitation,” which will see Sega subsidiary Sega Dream take control of Index – most notably key Atlus properties.
As Atlus the company was dissolved years ago by the disastrously acquisitive and now all but bankrupt Index corporation, technically all that is changing hands are the rights to the Atlus name and its various titles.
In particular, Sega will be acquiring the Atlus brand, the rights to Megami Tensei, Persona and Etrian Odyssey, along with the uninteresting hodgepodge of other companies Index acquired over the years.
However, the news is not all good as far as gamers are concerned – Sega is now Sega Sammy, a company as much concerned with seedy pachinko parlours as wholesome Miku worship.
Aside from video games, their business plans for the remains of Atlus already include using it to churn out social games and provide more IPs to milk in their gambling dens.
The “rescue” is proving as sensitive as ever:
“This could not get any worse…”
“Don’t expect anything good to happen to the Megaten franchise now.”
“Expect Megami Tensei 5 soon – on a pachislot machine!”
“I guess it all depends on how good Persona 5 turns out.”
“Terrible name… reminiscent of that console.”
“A dream bought with money.”
“Dream does not go well with Sega now…”
“The name is an ill omen.”
“A bad dream indeed…”
“At least call it Sega Atlus.”
“Atlus Tensei should be the name!”
“We can but hope they keep the Atlus name on.”
“They say the Sega Dream company was just incorporated for conveyance purposes, and that they will likely change the name.”
“It’s hard to believe what’s left of that company is in any shape to turn out decent games.”
“Atlus is the only part of Index worth anything. It’s the other divisions which are rubbish.”
“They better not mess with the Odin Sphere makers.”
“They would have been so much more compatible with Koei Tecmo or Bandai Namco. Sega Atlus is…”
“Let’s just hope Miku turns up as an angel in the Megami Tensei series…”
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omg... could it get any worse ?
They could accidentally set fire to something essentially made out of water....
More like they could accidentally melt what is essentially a diamond with their piss antics.
This is far too valuable a name for "Sega Sammy" to be dealing with, they should count their incompetence and sell it to a company who is actually capable of handling the burden.
Relax, its Sega, which leaves it broad enough for either a good team or a bad team to pick up development.
Now, if they say Sonic Team is working on it, then you can say "The end is nigh!"
Well at least it ain't Square
There is always a way to deeper layers of Hell.
Implying we haven't left Earth yet.
This is no hell, it's a disturbed plane of existence of humanity's own design.
Bah take your philosophical BS and shove it. I could care less if you believe in it or not or if your great grandmother is the tooth fairy or some other BS. If you can't prove your own point then you are no better than the ones that can't prove it does exist.
Now now, things could always be worse... Microsoft could've bought them instead.
Imagine how microsoft would force them to make the persona series into some sort of roid raging FPS game.
I, for one, am positive to this. As long as they don't stop western localization *coughharckyakuza5hurrrgh*.
I think if it was Nintendo or Microsoft it would be worse, imagine P5 as a Wii-U or Xbone exclusive.
I can't argue with you there. If there's anything I'm grateful for about Sega, they've always been one for supporting the Sony brand.
I actually would prefer to have to buy a Wii U or Xbone to play Atlus games as opposed to the will they / won't they crap you get with companies like Sega and Bamco. Especially with Sega quality actually becoming a thing these days. "All I wanted to do was play Persona 5 and it deleted my entire PC hard drive."
It doesn't matter. This just means anything that Atlus makes under the Sega umbrella will probably never see the light of day overseas.
Looking at you, Yakuza 5/HD Collection.
welp, no more English Persona game from here on out.
Time to learn japanese people!
I like learning japanese people.
Punctuation is a cool thing, too.
How do you learn Japanese people?
Just what we need, more pasty people randomly saying "desu"
@23:59 - I don't think you're qualified to respond to posts yet. Brush up on your reading comprehension.
are asians pasty?
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that is all.
It's over. Persona is dead.
Dreamcast 2 is near to completion MwAHAHAHA
(l ol jk but as a sega fanatic. Oh yeah)
I'm glad it's not EA Games
Sega is actually worse because they support region locking and there's virtually no guarantee anything gets localized under their horrid direction.
There's a reason why they have fallen out of the console heaven.
Atlus deserves none of this endless shit.
But under EA, they will want to join into the game development, which usually result in watered game experience. There are tons of small developers bought by EA, and the next thing is the games become lower in quality.
Red Alert is one example of the franchise that get ruined by EA. Apparently EA rushing the developer, and the game launched with full of bugs.
Very glad its not EA that take over Atlus.
+1
Didn't Index have Madhouse?
Could of been MUCH
Sega Sammy is a holding company, it's not the game company.
They bought stock... they're not touching ATLUS's operations.
You guys are so misinform. Sega Sammy is a holding company and they allow the companies they own (Sega, Sammy, and now Atlus) to do what they want. This isn't a bad thing.
I had to laugh when the author used the expression "wholesome Miku worship". I would hardly consider anything so bizarre as worshipping an imitation entertainer as "wholesome".
Why can't Sega be a console maker?
'Cause they already failed us.
hey, the genesis was pretty good! i still have mine with the sonic games, still play em too!
And people say that the American game industry is in dire straits these days...
... so will Phantasy Star Portable 2 Infinity finally come out under the Atlus label and voiced over by the Persona cast?
Well worth the wait, despite the eventual loss of the Colonel and Pizza Hut Gurhal.
Vocaloid songs in my next devil survivor and persona games?
why the hell not?!
Goodbye Persona...
"Let’s just hope Miku turns up as an angel in the Megami Tensei series…"
Cool! And also a new game. Personaloid!
Persona characters soon to be announced as DLC for Sonic & Sega Allstars Racing Transformed.
people getting personalities... pfff... the newest joke of the century
i guess i can wait another 25 years in real life before i get a persona which is actually competition ABLE
Could of been MUCH worst than SEGA. But that's how it always is anyway.. Atlus could of been acquired by Atlus and people would still complain, even if that doesn't make any sense.
They bought Index Corporation, not Atlus itself, just saying.
There is no Atlus itself!
It still exists as brand of Index Corporation.
Let me repeat. There is NO ATLUS ITSELF.
Then Madhouse is screwed, too.
“The name is an ill omen.”
In my language "Sega" can mean "handjob"... that's why the company here has always been called "seega".
What language is that?
Italy
I think you mean 'Italian'. Italy is the name of the country.