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Bandai Namco Makes Takeover Bid for Gundam Sponsor Sotsu
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With Bamco owning the license, hopefully there won't be regional locked games for the franchise.
The best one.
i want a hd remake/remaster of this, this was suppose to come in the west then it was canned
How does this fare for the Breaker series? I mean, New Breaker was shit but I was hoping for redemption.
I will always love the dramatic irony of the strongest Gundam in all series being used as a washing machine.
I could do without breaker for a long while but I think the only games getting made are going to be crossovers like it for a long time.
I love that series a ton but you're probably right. As long as the games are good, I just miss proper Breaker.
I'd love if the whole series got new MG kits, especially Devil and Master.
Isn't there something preventing them from doing this?
Also, it should be Sentinel.
Considering how manga and anime licenses tend to work, I could believe it. However, the fact that it gets love in almost everything else
makes me believe that isn't the case. Build Fighters has had Crossbone representation a few times and they are mainstays
in most of the games as well.
It's been over five years since Side Stories came out on the PS3. We've gone an entire console generation without a single player Universal Century Gundam action game. That's sad and nuts.
Wasn't the toy sale for G pretty bad? I think that's doesn't help. Best you can do is Robot Damashii
They did, Bandai bought Sunrise back in 1994. This also caused the creator of Gundam Yoshiyuki Tomino to leave Sunrise at the time. He came back to Sunrise in 1998 mainly because the next anime he created after leaving Sunrise was the infamous Garzey's Wing.
The article seems to have misread Sotsu's wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sotsu. The wikipedia article says that Sotsu has a relationship with Bandai Namco and in particular with the Sunrise subsidiary which the author thought meant that Sotusu owned Sunrise when it just means that Sotsu helps produce various Sunrise anime.
Sotsu is an advertising agency that has produced several Sunrise anime including Gundam, but Sunrise owned the IP, and when Bandai bought Sunrise back in 1994 that means that Bandai gained the Gundam IP then.
Here Wikipedia list Sunrise as being a subsidary of Bandai Namco
Yeah, that's what I thought. I particularly remember the Tomino stuff, because it's hilarious.
I think it is due to the rights being shared between multiple producers originally. Bandai Namco owned part of the Gundam brand, while Sotsu owned another part of the rights, thanks to helping fund/produce several Gundam shows. Sotsu has been listed as a copyright holder for Gundam as far back as I can recall. I figure that Bandai Namco and Sotsu have had a very friendly relationship this whole time.
This was basically Tomino's response to Bandai buying Sunrise back in 1994