Forum - View topicNEWS: Namco & Bandai Closer Now To Merger
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Wyvern
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"Activate battle mode, KOS-MOS! The Gundams are attacking!"
Meanwhile, Spike Spiegel and Mistsurugi fight to the death. This could be so cool.... |
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TiredGamer
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The new company will be called Bandai Namco Holdings Inc. according to news sources.
Namco Hometek is located in San Jose, while Bandai America & Bandai Games are located in shared offices in Cypress (outside Long Beach). Depending on space and leasing, there's no way to know which will close. I'm of the opinion that Bandai will move their Bandai Games division off to San Jose to cut down on duplication (and maybe future combined efforts among programming teams). Most of Namco's distribution staff will likely either be moved down to Cypress or cut since Bandai is the logical choice for combined distribution. The "on-topic" matter for ANN is this: I doubt Jerry Chu and Co. will see many changes. Namco has the "Tales of..." properties, but the animation rights are spread out among ADV, Geneon, and Media Blasters right now. Future works may become Bandai Visual exclusives, and we may see more games for animated properties... but nothing earth-shattering. I think, overall, the merger will be good for creative output in terms of games and anime. |
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Wyvern
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Come to think of it, that probably also means Bandai will end up releasing the Xenosaga anime over here, huh? |
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TiredGamer
Posts: 246 Location: Florida |
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I'm sure licensing speculation belongs in a different thread, but I will point out to you that XenoSaga TV was produced by Toei and the music is being handled by Columbia. Since I know that Bandai has never licensed a Toei production, you'll have to wait for one of the others. My own speculation is that Geneon will stay away because of Columbia, and we will see either ADV or Media Blasters go for this title. I guess we'll find out this Saturday (Anime Expo). |
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ferrarimanf355
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tiredgamer- Namco Hometek is actually based not in San Jose, but in nearby Santa Clara.
I just hope that this results in Bandai and Namco making games for the Xbox 360, that's all. Frame City Killer from Namco looks nice, but with the Playstation consoles (1, 2, and soon 3) getting the Tekken/Soul Calibur/Xenosaga/Ace Combat/Ridge Racer love... I feel lonely... 
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kusanagi-sama
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Why would Geneon stay away from Xenosaga because of Columbia? What did Columbia do to Geneon? |
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TiredGamer
Posts: 246 Location: Florida |
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If you search around for Namco Hometek, you will find they are variously listed as residing in San Jose and Santa Clara. Even HotJobs is confused (HQ listed in San Jose, jobs listed in Santa Clara).
Other than be a competitor to its Japanese parent company? Nothing... nothing at all... |
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ferrarimanf355
Posts: 159 Location: Seacrest County |
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Funny. Their mailing address is in Santa Clara. http://www.namco.com/contact.php I'd like to get a job there... don't know why, probably because I need a change of scenery... college sucks... |
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TiredGamer
Posts: 246 Location: Florida |
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Must've been a recent move (<2 yrs ago) since the World Wide Web is still confused... 
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Super Arrow
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I hereby dub this company...
BAMCO |
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Necros Antiquor
 Posts: 571 Location: Funny in a car crash sort of way |
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Eh, maybe Bandai with its solid marketing can convince Namco to release Soulcalibur III on all three consoles instead of just PS2 (because of Sony handing them a nice bag of money). I mean, Soulcalibur II did sell much better on Gamecube, and Xbox sales were almost as good as PS2 sales.
I'm still hoping for the possibility of a Soulcalibur anime, which, if done right and with an actual plot, could be very cool. Maybe it could start at the beginning of the franchise (Soul Edge/Blade) and spoiler[show Sigfried's transformation into Nightmare] or expand on the relationships between the characters. Maxi and Kilik are begging for an animated telling of their backstory. |
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ferrarimanf355
Posts: 159 Location: Seacrest County |
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Thank you! It's nice to see that someone else thinks this way! 
You're technically right about the 'Cube version of SCII outselling the PS2 version. In Europe and Japan, the PS2 version sold the best, but in the US, the 'Cube version outsold the PS2 version by 60K copies. The Xbox version sold 530K copies in the US. |
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Ataru
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Yeah I want to find out if they are ... nevermind. Yeah, Link had a hand in it, even if XBox had the better graphics and load. And still, to this day, I wonder why they gave the SC 2 spot for the PS 2 to Heihachi?  Atleast XBox had a reason why they used Spawn.
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ferrarimanf355
Posts: 159 Location: Seacrest County |
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My best guess is that the PS2 is home to Tekken, and Yoshimitsu is technically a Tekken character, even if the Tekken Yoshimitsu and the SC Yoshimitsu are two different characters... |
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TiredGamer
Posts: 246 Location: Florida |
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I'm sure this is, again, not exactly the place to discuss this...
The whole Namco/Sony deal over Soul Calibur III may be about Sony wanting a big title out this Xmas season. Remember that Xbox360 is coming out and it will be a slaughter if Sony doesn't push something out the door that's PS2-only and a big seller. Namco was also, apparantly, looking for a quick development cycle so they focused on the biggest of the current generation. Namco has already said that they are working on an Xbox360 and Nintendo Revolution version of Soul Calibur III. It's my opinion this was just a ploy to capitalize that last little bit on the current generation before it's eclipsed by the next. Next generation will definitely see multi-platform Soul Calibur (and with III on the newest Nintendo and Microsoft offerings)... My only question: when can we expect to see a Soul Calibur engine sporting Gundams?
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