ATLUS' Many Different Development Teams 

Hearing team maniax made soul hackers 2 is weirdly satisfying in a way. A couple years ago i wrote a review for soul hackers 2. At the time, due to how P4G, P3P, and P5R were all hitting steam around the time it came out, i wrote it felt like it was made by whoever else was in the office not busy with persona PC ports. Hearing it actually whoever wasnt busy with SMT5 is mind numbing that i was right, if not just a little off the mark.

I hope their outsourcing some Shin Megami Tensei Spin offs and Maniax is working on SMT 6 or SMT mainline cross over related related.

Good educational video man, kee up the good work! :)

Maniax wasnt soul hackers 2, the tms team is seperate from the main team, SH2 was headed by the EO division

Team maniax is a name used for the developer team in the japanese promotion of some games, namely Nocturne Maniax, Raidou and IV, in particular games that have Kazuyuki Yamai as the director. To my knowledge non of the recent atlus games have used that name for their developer teams (in particular V and SH2), neither have any of the other games they made like etrian odyssey. Before the Maniax version of Nocturne I'm pretty certain the name didn't exist, they called themselves Maniax because that was the first game they made. I wonder why some people still use that name for that studio, I think it's because of wikipedia.

needed this clarification thanks

Fantastic video, thank you! Now I know more about Atlus' studios! Are you gonna be covering SMTVV when it's out in a couple of weeks?

I want Team Maniax to open a studio at Nintendo like Bandai Namco did and make more games like Tokyo Mirage Sessions.

I hope the mystery PS2 remaster game turns out to be DDS.....I would love a DDS1+2 collection.

Usually I don’t do this, but I had to sub because you discuss all the games I care about

While this is true I would say that most of the younger talent and workers get moved around a lot. The director and producers and head programmers stay on the same team though.

This feels like what gamefreak does with every Pokémon game are done by different teams

I wonder what Team Maniax is working on right now.

Continue the grind, you'll find your audience soon 💪

I subbed because I want to cheer you on man keep up the good work that was very informative

"I definitely did not forget these" don't worry, everyone forgets those

So which is the group that works on the idea of making persona animes

Not many people realize that sadly 😅, Even when talking about rockstar

I am much more interested in SMT and non-Persona Megaten games.

I mean this explains why some of the games play differently

Does Atlus own Vanillaware or just publish for them? I always thought they were a part of Atlus, but then when Unicorn Overlord came out, it was stated that Atlus wanted a PC port but Vanillaware said they wouldn't do it. If Atlus owned them, couldn't they just make them do it, or at least commission a porting to studio to make the ports? Why is Vanillaware the only Atlus studio that refuses to allow its games on PC? It's just weird.

Isn't vanilla ware also a studio that atlus owns or something like that??!?!

I hope Atlus works with Arc System Works again so we can get Persona 5 Arena

The team that made soul hackers 2 should be put in jail, we need a remake of that game, one that is not as boring and grindy as that one

And yet, none of them have made a decent game in like 10 years. Hee ho.

First?