SEGA to publish Atlus titles in the West

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SEGA to publish Atlus titles in the West

Post by Kaito-kun »

I'm sure this will please some people:

[Quote="Shopto.net News"]Sega’s announced today that it has signed a deal with Atlus, meaning that it will see the publisher distributing the company’s games worldwide in the future.


Atlus has some pretty great games under its belt, such as the Persona series and recent european release, Catherine.

The deal is due to take effect from April 2012 onwards, meaning you’ll no longer need to import these wonderful titles in order to avoid the usually lengthy delay.[/quote]

A playlist update will no doubt be required.

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Post by TCB »

That is good news; played Catherine and it's one of those games that..well to me, is what I didn't expect to like as much I thought I would. It's awesome, just awesome.

And more good music to expect.
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Post by Twinny »

Never played any Atlus title before (if I can remember) but it's nice to see a partnership like this rather than the one with Marvel and their sucky movie tie-ins...
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Not sure how I feel about this. Guess I'd better hope Atlus don't make any more PSP games!
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Post by Tru »

This is definitley good news in my book! Atlus create a whole bunch of unique games and RPG's, and SEGA RPG's are certainly thin on the ground right now, they should just go ahead and buy Atlus >_>

I've not actually played any of the Persona games, or Catherine, but they're definitely in my hit list. I had a friend at Uni that was pretty obsessed with the Persona and Yakuza games, actually, it's all he used to talk about! They also crated Lunacy/Torico on the Saturn, which was one of my favourite games back then.

There are a few Atlus games I've been interested in that didn't get released over here as well, like Radiant Historia on the DS. I don't think it's likely I will see them either, but it's still great that SEGA are stretching out!

Does this mean we can add old Atlus RPG's to the playlist? :P
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Post by Reknoc »

Hope they can give us first print runs as good as Ghostlight have.

Edit: Uh, where exactly has SEGA announced this?

All I see is Index Holding announcement that they're partnered with SEGA to help them release Atlus games in Japan. Can't see anything about this being a world wide deal and Shop-to offer no source to their "announcement".
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Post by Gonic »

Here's hoping for the persona 4 fighter
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Gonic wrote:Here's hoping for the persona 4 fighter
Atlus USA are currently teasing an announcement which looks to be the fighting game. Which is odd as the game isn't even out yet in the arcades let alone on the home consoles.
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Post by Matty »

And what about Square Enix?

pretty sure they were publishing/distributing some of Atlus's games anyway
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Post by Reknoc »

Matty wrote:And what about Square Enix?

pretty sure they were publishing/distributing some of Atlus's games anyway
Square-Enix has only published one Atlus game in Europe (Persona 4), though that is one more than SEGA likely will.
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