If they do, there can be some Atlus characters in SSB4.

God no. Altus has given me some of my favorite gaming experiences. Demon's Souls, Catherine, Persona heck they were behind Disgaea, my favorite SRPG series ever. I'm sure I'm missing other games too, Shin Magami for example. Sure, some of those games have been platform exclusive BUT it'd be best if they remained a 3rd party developer / publisher. If not then I guess I'm buying a Wii-U. Lol.

If namco gets them say good buy to western releases...

Another one of these?? -_-

"There’s even a deal going on right now that when you buy and register both SMT IV and Fire Emblem Awakening on Club Nintendo, you receive $30 in eShop credit. Sure this could just be a small marketing reference to SMT x Fire Emblem that is maybe going to be finally revealed in the near-future, but at the same time, Nintendo has never advertised a 3rd-party game alongside one of their high-profile franchises. It seems almost too much of an ambitious move for Nintendo."
That's NOT surprising in any way, shape, or form. Of course when you're gonna have a crossover with another IP, you're gonna treat it with respect, right?? Look at the Playstation Store deal back in April for PSASBR. Because Raiden, Big Daddy, and Dante were in the game, MGS games, Bioshock games, and the DMC HD Collection got special discounts. Well, what happened at E3? Why wasn't MGSV showed off at the Sony Conference, and called PS3/4 exclusive? Why didn't Sony buy Ninja Theory? Why wasn't Ken Levine on stage to tell us that Irrational Games and Sony struck a deal for PS4 exclusivity??

TL;DR Just because Nintendo does a freaking promotion with SMT doesn't mean sh!t. Nothing. Zero. Nada. Nothing special. Might as well have also ported MGS4 to the Wii in like 50 discs for $1000 when Snake was announced for Super Smash Bros Brawl
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i can't believe what people are saying here: "if Nintendo buys Atlus, it will destroy Persona..."

that logic is just so immature. if the only way -- and i'm not saying it is -- to save Atlus is for Nintendo to buy it, would you rather have Atlus die out into obscurity, than have a company Nintendo buy it? for what, simply because you believe Nintendo will "destroy" the Persona series? jeez...

now, should Nintendo buy Atlus? if it would help Nintendo come up with more good RPG's, and perhaps bring the Persona series to Nintendo, then yes, they should buy it.

however, and this is for those who think i'm only up for Nintendo here -- a big HOWEVER, i believe what's best is for Atlus to remain 3rd party. i would prefer it if neither Nintendo, Sony, nor Microsoft (especially) buy Atlus. in fact, I wouldn't even want EA to get a hold of this company. the fact is, their IP's are enjoyed by many from different consoles, and keeping them 3rd party means having more people enjoy the games. but bringing their usual "exclusive" titles to other consoles would be great (go multiplatform) -- yes i'm saying Persona on Wii U, or Catherine on the 3DS.

I hope they can remain a 3rd party studio, however I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft tried to buy them as it would be an instant 'in' to the Japanese market and would be a blow to Sony and Nintendo.

Like many people, I would rather Atlus stay a third party developer/publisher. Because I don't know if many people know this, but a lot of the games Atlus brings over weren't developed by them, they just got the publishing rights. Meaning if they were bought out buy another gaming company, say goodbye to a lot of great niche games no one wanted to bring over besides Atlus.

BUT... if it did happen, if Atlus was bought by Nintendo. I would get over it. I would rather have an first party Atlus than no Atlus.

I would like to see it happen just to witness all the fanboy drama. The bitter tears would flow like wine.

But cynicism aside, I'd rather see them buy Sega, and that's probably not going to happen either.

my god another dumb ass story about Nintendo buying atlas would u people just shut the hell up if sony or nintendo buys atlas us gamers will suffer because one will keep the other company from selling on there hardware i would go crazy if persona 5 ends up on wiiu or the 3DS and not on the ps3 or the psvita... come on people think before u post theses stupid story's.....

You're all delusional, as soon as Nintendo buys it, it will never be on a Sony or ms machine ever again

Nintendo should die, go third party stop with garbage hardware.

They sucks with home consoles, they barely won once in 4 generations and wiiu s definition of fail platform.

Stick to handhelds , and make stuff for other home consoles.

Sooner they get this it ll be better for them

I think it's cool everyone sticks up for their company of choice but last I heard is that Nintendo pushes creativity and makes studios better. Lets look at Rare bought by Microsoft and we all know how that turned out.

Now lets look at how Nintendo feels about Retro.

“Certainly we do feel that we want to leverage the capabilities of Retro Studios further, because as we've seen from the Metroid games, they’re a very capable studio.”

From that statement sounds like they believe in their developers and instead of stopping them will push them to do better.

Heres what a former Rare employee said.

Phil Tossell, a former Rare developer who’s now working on Wii U and iPad game Tengami, has revealed that the team really enjoyed working closely with Nintendo, as most of the team composed of Nintendo fans. Tossell says that there was a severe culture clash between Rare and its current employer, Microsoft. He said that as time past the culture at the acclaimed studio changed and it felt more like Microsoft and less like Rare.

“I think most of the people who worked at Rare at the time were Nintendo fans and we loved working closely with Nintendo. Rare was also a close knit family and so it was something of a shock to suddenly become part of such a huge organisation as Microsoft. There was a severe culture clash which perhaps did not become apparent at first as Microsoft mostly allowed us to continue as we had always done.”

“However as time passed and there were staff changes at MGS, together with Tim and Chris (Stamper) leaving, the culture changed and it began to feel more Microsoft and less Rare. While Rare continues to put out high quality games, for me it lost some of the spark that had made the company special.”

Last but not least lets look at a company bringing one of the highly anticipated games of 2014 to the Wii U Monolith Soft has praised Nintendo and here is an excerpt from a interview not to long ago.

Speaking in an internal interview series, translated by Siliconera, the company revealed that many of its staffers had concerns about the idea of moving to Kyoto, but that all of these worries had now dissolved. It appears the developer is quite happy in its new home and says that meetings with Nintendo have increased drastically since the move.
Monolith Soft has been in Kyoto now for about a year, and Nintendo has been actively consulting on its work and has consistently provided feedback with ideas on how to make things better. The developer said it was amazed by Nintendo’s ability to work together as a team, and believes it’s a major asset to producing quality games. Seeing this teamwork has inspired Monolith Soft to bring the same culture to its own development practices.
Designer, Shoko Fukuchi, says that the developer now makes people feel included by doing things like asking programmers for ideas - something that did not happen in the past.
Monolith Soft says it now has a new outlook when developing games. The team at the studio are working closer together not only as co-workers, but as a family with the common goal of developing fantastic games.

In closing to all those that accuse Nintendo of toning a companies ideas down they should do some research first.

I hope a third party company gets Atlus that way all three 1st party companies and gamers benefit. However you can tell the author of the article clearly wants Nintendo to buy them because he says things like Sony most likely won't buy them because of their track record over the last few years in which they sold some buildings and shut studios down. Those are true facts but yet he failed to mention in that same time frame Sony spent money on purchasing Gaikai and expanded some of their 1st party studios like Naughty Dog, Santa Monica, and Sucker Punch. So though they shut down some studios they in a sense replaced them with another team within existing studios.
He did bring up good points regarding reasons on why Nintendo could end up purchasing them though.

One more thing I doubt Nintendo would ruin the Persona series.

Atlus should really be a stand alone studio in my opinion. They can produce greatness on every platform.

Playstation has SMT:Digital Devil Saga, Nocturne, Persona and Catherine and more. All gems.

Nintendo has SMT:Strange Journey, SMT IV, Etrian Odyssey, Trauma Center, Devil Survivor and more. (Only played Strange Journey and Trauma Center, but I really liked those.)

Xbox has... uh, Catherine. Really good game.

And even PC had SMT:Imagine.

For Atlus to go under exclusivity would be bad news. I for one would not buy a Wii-U, even if Persona 5 goes exclusive to that console.

I firmly believe that Atlus future is in 3rd party multi-platform. They're too great of a developer for exclusivity.

The best thing for Atlus is to be autonomous. However, if they must be purchased by one of the big three, Sony is definitely the most attractive choice as a gamer. I'm not saying that Nintendo would censor or water down Atlus' more provocative games, but if they owned Atlus I wouldn't bet against it. With Sony there is absolutely no chance that would happen, and we know Sony gives their studios a lot of freedom and creativity.

Again, I'd like for Atlus to remain third party so as many people as possible can play their games. All I'm saying is IF you have to choose between the big three, Sony is the best choice by far.

yes I agree, nintendo should buy atlus, WE NEED A WII U VERSION OF TRAUMA CENTER PLEASE!!

F*ck that. Could you imagine? New Super Persona U, rated E 10+? That's exactly what we'd see is Shitendo got their hands on that studio. Sony all the way or bust.

I dont see why Atlus and Nintendo would be a bad idea (besides the exclusivity). Nintendo needs to jump on the opportunity.

Nintendo need to buy Atlus simply because the Wii U need more games

Nintendo is most certainly going away with a piece of atlus. Index corporation owes a large number of people and nintendo is on the list and one of the most owed to aswell and near the top of the list making them one of the creditors. http://www.dualshockers.com...

Just like if you were to go bankrupt and have no money the bank will take what you have if you maxed your credit cards to make up for what you owe them.

I would be dumb for Nintendo to pass-up the chance- if possible.

I don't understand why people think nintendo ruined Bayonetta, but the series was dying and Nintendo saved it, and not to mention Nintendo let Platinum do what they want to Bayonetta 2 so to say Nintendo ruined it is wrong unless you mean it's because nintendo bought it, but there is still the valid point that nintendo saved the series, i'm just happy Microsoft may not buy it, because i dont wanna see them kill Atlus like they did to rare, i can careless if sony buys Atlus because i'm getting a ps4 and own a wii u