Bandai and Namco to merge

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  1. Jasonkhowell

    Jasonkhowell Well Known Member

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  2. Paulo

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    Umm cool... but where does that leave the bandai toys and other things...
     
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    Didn't Nintendo own a large chunk of Bandai shares?
     
  5. Zilog Jones

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    Yeah, it's a lot like the Sega-Sammy merger:

    Sega & Namco: Good games
    Sammy & Bandai: Cack games :-D
     
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    Bandai were going to merge with Sega a few years back. All was looking good until one or the other pulled out of the deal. Probably would have been better than the Sega Sammy deal we have now.

    Yakumo
     
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    Does that mean we might see more Neo Geo action figures one day?
     
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    Bandai pulled out of that deal. I even remember a 3-4 page spread in Saturn Magazine, so it was very official. The newsbit I read referred to rumors of a Sega Namco merger which I had never heard of.

    Bandai puts out a handful of good games, but there's a LOt of turd ones to wade through.
     
  9. AntiPasta

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    I heard the intended Bandai-Sega merger killed off the Pippin... pretty sour that the merger didnt go through.
     
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    subbie Guardian of the Forum

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    Comming to a Japanese video game system near you.

    Its the all new Gundam transforming pacman game.

    Battle it out in space against the evil ghost federation!

    from Banco/namdai
     
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    XerdoPwerko Galaxy Angel Fanatic Extreme - Mediocre collector.

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    I SO want to play that Pacman game... Imagine the power pellets, dude!
     
  12. Evangelion-01

    Evangelion-01 Officer at Arms

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    i heard bandai is buying out namco, so is not a merge xD,but my sources could be wrong "crappy spanish site"
     
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    They are wrong, the official source is talking about a joint holding company.

    Edit: Mmm they're also talking about an aquisition...
     
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  14. GaijinPunch

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    Probably b/c of this (taken from this thread.

     
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