ATLUS' Future

ATLUS' Future
	ATLUS' extraordinary general meeting of stockholders had been held on April 13, 2010. I want to introduce some points from that.
	ATLUS is famous for its RPG series "Persona" and "Megami Tensei". Also, it used to localize other Japanese companies' games into English and launch them overseas, "Demon's Souls" is an example.
	How about the general meeting of stockholders?
	Basically, ATLUS will become Index Holdings' wholly-owned subsidiary. ATLUS will retreat from the stock market.
	But the company itself would still exist.
	Well, to some extent.
	To some extent...
	That depends on Index Holdings, maybe it would be demolished and absorbed by Index Holdings, or maintain the present situation. Depends on Index Holdings' decision.
	I see.
	How about its future?
	The answer from the questioning section is quite long, but we should look into it. The question is what is the present position of ATLUS in the industry, what is your target, how about the recent rise in stock price of SNS and the future trend. Mainly stuff inside Japan huh. "At the end of December we are No.12. Hudson and Koei are higher than us. That chart is determined by sales of game, ATLUS' sales was 0.6 to 0.7 million, Hudson was 1 million. If you hit million your position rise. According to data at the end of March we are No.13. Spike replaced us. We want to be Top 10 in the future because this is an oligopolistic market. Even if the market is niche, we need to be Top 10 to survive. Recent news are saying SNS ans smartphone make the market active. GREE's aggregate market value had exceeded SQUARE ENIX. This means we can't survive by console games only. Becoming Index Holdings' wholly-owned subsidiary, we will have more channels like PC, mobiles, smartphone etc. We will make use of our content to improve the stock price. We have used to console game, but never develop mobile games. In the future, we will make use of Index Holdings' powerful mobile content to release our software. Also, Index Holdings has an animation studio. We will make games from its characters and content. Mobile online game is also our target."
	Hudson is famous for "Bomberman" series, and Koei has "Warriors" series. Spike don't have killer title but maintaining a good sales. SQUARE ENIX is of course the maker of "FINAL FANTASY" and "Kingdom Hearts" series. GREE is an Internet company providing service similar to Facebook. And MADHOUSE is that animation studio owned by Index Holdings.
	This is it. We should pay attention to the result of ATLUS' business in the coming future.