To further elaborate, Sega and Atlus have had a pretty damn solid history, with Sega Japan originally releasing many of their games over there.

Further more, Yakuza 5 is the first one we haven't gotten, and ever since the first one their sales have been declining title by title. The first Valkyria did well, but 2 did very poorly here. It's not so much SEGA has a history of not releasing Niche titles, it's that those niche titles rarely do well over here.

Hell, look at them taking a chance on Hatsume Miko (YEs, I probably butchered that name. ). Sega actually has a pretty bitching history of taking chances on Niche titles, it just also comes with them not selling well enough to warrant sequel releases.

Just doing what I can to ease the dread, no need to let all the negativity pre-emptively wreck what could be a good thing. ;P

Also, one last mention, ATLUS has had a hell of a time even getting their games released over in Europe, and given Sega has a big reach there it seems the European audience will get more access to Atlus titles.