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DarkZero
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Silver Customer
"Takara Buys Atlus"
, posted Thu 16 Oct 02:06
According to this GameSpot article, Takara has chosen to buy out Atlus' remaining stock and move from the position of majority shareholder to parent company.
This makes me wonder about something. Takara become a majority shareholder in Atlus in April and now they've decided to make Atlus a subsidiary just six months later. Has Atlus done anything impressive in the last six months beside releasing Disgaea in the US and watching it become a cult hit with modest financial success? I can't think of anything else, so I wonder if Takara will have any interest in more US ports in the future.
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exodus
1355th Post
Red Carpet Executive Member
"Re(1):Takara Buys Atlus"
, posted Thu 16 Oct 02:07
and takara is owned mostly by Konami. uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh consolidation.
Luisinan
503th Post
New Red Carpet Member
"Re(2):Takara Buys Atlus"
, posted Thu 16 Oct 02:25
quote: and takara is owned mostly by Konami. uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh consolidation.
Takara is owned by Konami!?!?! Truth? Truth!?
Yet we still don't have a decent Transformers game from a Japanese developer. The new G1 games is getting terrible reviews everywhere. While the Activision Armada game looks better and better everyday.
is the world backwards? Since when did American's get good at making non-FPS/RTS/Sports console games?
quote: According to this GameSpot article, Takara has chosen to buy out Atlus' remaining stock and move from the position of majority shareholder to parent company.
This makes me wonder about something. Takara become a majority shareholder in Atlus in April and now they've decided to make Atlus a subsidiary just six months later. Has Atlus done anything impressive in the last six months beside releasing Disgaea in the US and watching it become a cult hit with modest financial success? I can't think of anything else, so I wonder if Takara will have any interest in more US ports in the future.
The entire SMT series pretty much.
Right now Altus Japan and Atlus US have almost no connection to each other. Have no idea if this will change under the new ownership. Likely nothing will change at all.
quote: According to this GameSpot article, Takara has chosen to buy out Atlus' remaining stock and move from the position of majority shareholder to parent company.
This makes me wonder about something. Takara become a majority shareholder in Atlus in April and now they've decided to make Atlus a subsidiary just six months later. Has Atlus done anything impressive in the last six months beside releasing Disgaea in the US and watching it become a cult hit with modest financial success? I can't think of anything else, so I wonder if Takara will have any interest in more US ports in the future.
The entire SMT series pretty much.
Right now Altus Japan and Atlus US have almost no connection to each other. Have no idea if this will change under the new ownership. Likely nothing will change at all.
Atlus traditionally has a very strong amusement machine division, for print club and the like. They're quite a big company really, I'm surprised to see them engulfed by Takara. Consolidation: It's what's for dinner.
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Radish
1802th Post
Silver Carpet V.I.P- Platinum Executive
"Re(3):Takara Buys Atlus"
, posted Thu 16 Oct 10:55
quote: According to this GameSpot article, Takara has chosen to buy out Atlus' remaining stock and move from the position of majority shareholder to parent company.
This makes me wonder about something. Takara become a majority shareholder in Atlus in April and now they've decided to make Atlus a subsidiary just six months later. Has Atlus done anything impressive in the last six months beside releasing Disgaea in the US and watching it become a cult hit with modest financial success? I can't think of anything else, so I wonder if Takara will have any interest in more US ports in the future.
The entire SMT series pretty much.
Right now Altus Japan and Atlus US have almost no connection to each other. Have no idea if this will change under the new ownership. Likely nothing will change at all.
Atlus traditionally has a very strong amusement machine division, for print club and the like. They're quite a big company really, I'm surprised to see them engulfed by Takara. Consolidation: It's what's for dinner.
Soon all the game companies will merge into Nintendonysegatlusquenikonaapcom.
"Takara Buys Atlus" 
