Very simple. Because devs like Atlus are making Nintendo and SEGA look like idiots that they can't compete in the same level of quality as Atlus.

Nintendo will never be able to make RPG games like Atlus so people bicker at Nintendo for lack of JRPGs even though they have Fire Emblem and Xenoblade Chronicles.

And Atlus was going to go bankrupt until SEGA bought them.

And please, if they go bankrupt, there's the saying "move on" are you seriously pitying their jobs when the jobs themselves aren't even well paid?

Heck even if Nintendo staffs were to be left, I would simply say that its time to move on. If I lose this job that I'm having right now, I have to accept to move on, that's life.

As for the reason, I just find it annoying that it exists simply because these niche devs only make games for a niche audience comparing it to SEGA and Nintendo who make games for all ages.

The other reason that people praise the hell out of Atlus because of them producing quality games...um...what about Nintendo?