If you have been living under a rock and didn’t know that SEGA bought out Atlus’ parent company Index Holding last year, now you know! In a recent interview with Famitsu, Atlus CEO Naoto Hiraoka and representative director and president Yukio Sugino talked about all things Atlus including their relationship with SEGA.
One of the topics was next generation consoles and Yukio Sugino went on to say:
“Compared to Atlus, Sega are on a much bigger scale [as developers], and our respective know-how is completely different. They’re much more advanced than us when it comes to tools and middleware.”
The exciting part is that later, the CEO of Atlus, Naoto Hiraoka stated that they had a meeting with SEGA CCO Toshiro Nagoshi about the future games Atlus plans to release. I would have love to be a fly on the wall during that meeting.
“That’s right. The other day, we held a briefing session with Sugino and myself on Atlus’ side, with [Yakuza producer, Sega CCO Toshiro] Nagoshi and others from Sega to discuss our title line-up for the next three years, where we talked about things such as, ‘Ah, with that kind of lineup, we can do this and that.’”
They talked about how collaborations on joint projects is difficult for two companies and since SEGA and Atlus know what they are doing well ahead of time it just makes these things easier. Don’t be shocked if we see some sort of cross-over game similar to Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem.
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Is that character on the left meant to be the Atlus mascot? ‘Freeze’ something he’s called?
His name is Jack Frost. Yeah, he is basically Atlus’ mascot.
http://megamitensei.wikia.com/wiki/Jack_Frost
So does this mean Yakuza 5/Ishin or something like that could finally be ported over?
Maybe even PSO 2? (I know this isn’t made by Toshihiro)