Chris Winkler writes "Index Holdings has increased its stake in Atlus to 62.24%. The company had previously held a 54.93% stake in the Shin Megami Tensei makers. Index cited expectations for further growth in the game business as a result of synergy effects with the group's mobile contents and anime divisions.
For its current fiscal year ending on July 31st, Atlus expects to post an operating profit of 549 million yen ($5.79 million USD) on sales of 20.64 billion yen ($217.63 million USD). While the company's game division has performed well, its arcade and amusement divisions have been struggling as of late. Atlus has recently released PlayStation Portable-based remakes of Persona and Growlanser in Japan."
"Atlus, the publisher of the ever-growing Persona franchise had registered a bunch of domains related to the Persona series. Keep in mind, companies register domains and trademarks all the time that they never actually act on. (Example: Sony’s glove controller for PS4) However, the series is continuing to grow with its fifth main installment shipping 1.5 units on PS4 — that’s a huge number for this once-niche RPG series. The series quickly gained traction after the release of Persona 3 on the PS2 — ever since then we’ve gotten a handful of remakes and spin-offs. Because I’m such a fanboy of Persona, I want to go through the list of domains and give my thoughts on what each domain Atlus has registered could be." -- PlayStation Enthusiast
Im all for it. This series as a whole is well thought out, entertaining to play, and made well. Keep em coming!
The digital PS3 version of Mass Effect Trilogy has dropped to $4.49. Odin Sphere, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha versus King Abaddon, Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga, Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2 and Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 are also on sale for $4.99 each.
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These are sales for the digital versions of those games in fact I have a backwards compatible PlayStation 3 and I still opted to purchase the digital version of some of these games simply because they ran faster and the actual PlayStation 2 versions cost a fortune.
Ironically I'm actually currently playing Persona 4 right now on my PlayStation 3
Persona 4 on eBay is only $15... that's not a fortune. Though I did purchase this digitally to save a few $$$.
@Rhyme- thats a good deal for that version. Its normally always $10 on PSN though.....
Mind you, I couldn't find it on Amazon for that price years ago when I was looking for it lol.
I found it on PSN simply by googling and finding out Atlus put a lot of their games on PSN and I ended up getting it on sale for like 5 bucks.
$4.50 for the Mass Effect Trilogy?! I would jump on that if I didn't already have the game. I also own all of these Atlus titles physically, and I think I did get the digital version of Persona 4 just to support the digital release/have it on my PS3, even though I think my PS2 is still the most authentic way to play it. Granted, Golden is the definitive version IMHO with maybe one minor point in favour of the original. Perhaps I should open up a Tracy Rooney vs. Erin Fitzgerald discussion right here for my own amusement, but derailing the Internet can't be that easy, can it?
Phoenix Down is hosted by Drew Leachman and Matt Quinn. Each segment focuses on an older game the duo decides upon with another member of the ZTGD crew or special guest. They play through and discuss the mechanics and how well it holds up today. It is the ultimate in backlog elimination.
The crew finally reach the conclusion to this MegaTen game.
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