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Bandai Namco (They publish Dark Souls) undergoes organisation restructure on April 2021 for global competitiveness, IP creation and stability
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Hope we still get ANY release of Super Robot Wars.
They've been quiet way too long
"Microsoft (they ruined Rareware) or Sony (they don't care about JRPG's) should buy Bandai Namco (they publish Dark Soul's)".
There is no reason. But for the Era take see the Sega and also Kadokawa thread for reference.
"Bandai Namco (creators of that game that shares the same nickname as a professional boxer) undergoes organization restructure....."
Namco Bandai, of Taiko no Tatsujin fame
Not much to say about the news, I guess. Where should I ask for a good JoJo game?
Just based on their history it'd point toward a collaboration project rather than an internally developed game. An open-world ARPG would be weird though since they're already doing that with Elden Ring. And unless From just bizarrely faceplants out of nowhere, the it's going to be very popular.
Oh no I guess this restructuring news means MS, Sony or Nintendo are going tom acquire them.
No this is just something all major Japanese corporations do at this time of the year because the new FY begins soon.
Oh, they are from Japan (where they make Dark Souls) and make games for consoles (where you can play Dark Souls).
There's something of a self fulfilling prophecy shit with all those japanese devs aiming for the west cause the home market is declining according to them (while in fact it's growing, but not thanks the platform they want to support...)
You say this like they didnt go and ape a Souls games while working with the people that make Souls games. I dont think they are gonna mind much if they add another one to the pile if it brings them money.
Besides you need to make something that is gonna attract people to your big budget game and ARPGs are still big sellers as far as I can tell.
Appreciate the meta, though looking at their IP list it's a bit disappointing that Dark Souls isn't in their major IP list and many of these IPs are more or less bound in Japan...
After not very good gacha rolls I call them Scamco these days :|
They could buy Sega this time lol
Slightly more seriously, Sony could buy them out and eliminiate more of the competition in the cross-media area (Lantis competes with Sony Music, Sunrise competes with Aniplex, their BNEI competes with Aniplex and SIE sorta).
Maybe Elon Musk will buy them out and get Sachiko on a SpaceX rocket
The 2nd Bandai Namco Entertainment Festival at Tokyo Dome "last weekend" was going to be totally awesome too...
バンダイナムコエンターテインメントフェスティバル 2nd
『バンダイナムコエンターテインメントフェスティバル2nd』開催！5月14日（土）・15日（日）ZOZOマリンスタジアム！！ 詳細はこちら⇒https://fes.bn-ent.net
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They're totally going to get rid of the Amusement division aren't they (following Sega yet again)
SegaSammy decided to sell Sega's Amusement Center business
SEGA SAMMY HOLDINGS Inc. (the Company) resolved to transfer a portion of the shares of SEGA ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD. (SE) held by SEGA GROUP CORPORATION (SHQ), a consolidated subsidiary of the Company, to GENDA Inc. (GENDA) at Board of Directors meeting held...
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Code Vein? I'd be surprised if it had a budget like the Souls game. I'm mainly talking about it'd be weird if they were going to make an open-world ARPG that's has an even bigger budget than ER, because there's no way that's not going to be one of their more expensive games (if not the most expensive by the time it launches). Because at that point you're getting into a situation where who exactly is going to develop that game? They obviously wouldn't trust just any developer with that kind of budget. They'd want to make sure that studio has a history where there's very little chance that it's quality isn't going to be questionable. Like From's pedigree tells them that they don't have anything to really worry about when it comes to quality.
Must be priming themselves to be acquired by Microsoft. That's the only explanation for a perfectly normal organisation restructure like this.
Maybe with this reestructure they can go and tell the spanish guy (cant say the name) that handles their ip to make shitty unfinished 3d animated shorts ripping off students to go an fuck himself with a big ass stick and get the fuck out.
I dont understand after every shitfest he has done (or better said hasnt lol) after the pacman short NB still gives him ips to work with every year.
Sorry, some personal stuff i wanted to vent off. But i really hope someday they actually stop lending him ips so he can stop using them to rip off students.
I dont understand after every shitfest he has done (or better said hasnt lol) after the pacman short NB still gives him ips to work with every year.
Sorry, some personal stuff i wanted to vent off. But i really hope someday they actually stop lending him ips so he can stop using them to rip off students.
Square Enix already owns taito though and they've only started reusing the taito name for console games recently (last couple years)
On topic: I hope this means they can release more quality games timely. The Japanese gaming market is shrinking so much and it's not hard to see developers struggling. Series that promise to have new titles keeps delaying: Tales, Digimon... (Add in Ace Attorney from Capcom...)
Square Enix can do a better job with promoting their Taito games.
It's growing. Bandai Namco in particular has posted growth YoY every year since 2015 and is pretty much at their most profitable ever right now.