Bandai and Namco To Merge 35
Entertainment company Bandai announced today that they've purchased game creator Namco and as of September of this year will be merging into a single company. From the article: "Bandai shares fell 2.5 percent to 2,335 yen as of 2:27 p.m. in Tokyo, after dropping as much as 3.8 percent. Namco shares rose 8.8 percent to 1,530 yen, headed for their biggest gain since November 2003. The companies' shares were suspended for the first one and a half hours of trading, following an earlier report of the merger plan by the Nihon Keizai newspaper."
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The fact you can just pickup the controller and a random character and seem to play reasonably is actually a good thing, it means the game is forgiving for newbies. But button mashing can only get you this far.
An experienced player will block impact or parry your attacks, cancel your throws, play mind games through fake moves or high mobility and throw so much pressure on you that make a mistake after mistake and even give him enough time to finish you off with style using some unblockable.
What
Fight for Life is so much better (Score:2, Funny)
Hmm (Score:4, Interesting)
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Are you aware of how big Bandai is? Nintendo trying to buy them out would be like Apple trying to buy Disney.
Bandai has huge entertainment assets for animation, live-action, toys, apparel, all kinds of things, as well as a gigantic international distribution chain. Now all that marketing muscle is going to be behind Namco's original video game properties as well as Bandai's licenses.
Just imagine... (Score:5, Funny)
The future is...wait a bit...not yet...now!
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Nintendo Games... finally? (Score:5, Interesting)
Dream on. (Score:3, Insightful)
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For every bandai share, owners will get 1.5 shares of the new company compared to 1 to 1 for the Namco shareholders. Nintendo happens to own a decent chunk of Bandai already, which means that it will own a decent chunk of the new company. So they don't need the money, but they've both already got major Nintendo partnerships
What this means to us. (Score:4, Interesting)
Either way prepare to read this line in the future:
Heihachi Vs San Goku!
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Merge? (Score:5, Funny)
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Rob
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Do the research on Banpresto's (Bandai subsidiary) Super Robot Taisen series some time. These consistently upset huge names in gaming to take the number one sales spot on all platforms. And if you're a mecha anime and strategy game fan, they are pretty fun. Mindless "gaiden" kind of storylines, but still fun.
Anyway, I'd say Namco fans have nothing to worry about. If anything, Namco's game development efforts will most likely take priority, given thei
Just one question: (Score:2)
Will the new company name be Namdai or Banco?
("Namco Bandai Holdings Inc." is so weak...)
Please vote for your favorite below:
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Bandriva.
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Nintendo
Finally, what we've always wanted. (Score:4, Funny)
Oh hell no... (Score:1)
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you know what this means (Score:2, Funny)