Seems that companies buying out other companies seems to be common place lately. Mostly in the West but there are still examples like Enix eating square and Taito. But Guess who'll buy who can be unpredictable but if you say EA you're pretty much right. A friend of mine and closet Nintendo fanboy keeps telling me Nintendo should buy sega and NO reason I give him as to why it can't happen and won't happen sastisfies him. But I think it would be fun to look at who's joined up with who Hudson-Konami EA-Almost everyone Square-Enix-Taito Sega- Sammy Namco-Bandai. Who else? I also need some ammo for my arugment against Nintendo buying Sega. I know it won't happen as Sega eventually wants to get into hardware again someday. But He needs absolute reasons why this won't and can't happen. I mean we can never say but.....I highly doubt this.
I remember reading it in a magazine somewhere I swear I did hear Somebody at Sega saying they wanted to do Hardware again.
SEGA has no reason to enter into hardware. They re a company, focused on making money just as any other. They don't work for the fans
That's true but who knows what might happen in the future. Depends on if the industry will grow more or crash again.
I also think that the longer Sega waits, the less viable entering the hardware market will become. As time goes on, people forget about the hardware they've made in the past and they lose their corporate identity as a hardware producer. The vast majority of their demographics probably have no knowledge of anything beyond the current generation. I think a Nintendo-Sega merger is quite possible, especially with all the games they've been codeveloping and the fact that a very large number of Sega games have been coming out for Nintendo systems. Sega has been facing some crappy sales from what I understand, so at some point they might not have enough money to sustain themselves unless they're absorbed by a larger company (like Nintendo). Well, Sega-Sammy that is.
Don't believe anything you read. Except in this case, when everyone knows: They aren't making hardware. They don't even exist anymore, for all intents and purposes.
I think there would be alot of clashing with in the rankings. Sega always did a different style from what Nintendo did. the games they do for nintendo seem to be in a nintendoish style while the purely sega stuff goes on the other systems. Really......can you imigine playing Virtua Fighter 6 with the wii mote?
SEGA merging with nintendo? They have very different policies on how to make games. SEGA wants to follow the EA model of business, whereas nintendo is still focusing on quality, not quantity and frequent titles/brand abuse.
This is true. I would hate to see the Sega of today make a console. It would probably be a complete disaster. In so far as the original post, I predict that EA will probably buy 2K at some point.
That's the funniest thing I read today, they couldn't whore Mario out more if he was wearing a short red skirt, a tight halter top, fish nets and high hells and was standing on the corner of a rough neighbourhood under the watchful eye of pimp miyamoto. :lol: Out of the big players, be interesting to see if Koei buy anyone out, in their history they bought out a company that made word processing software, they are also one of the oldest software companies there and have grown massively in the last 5 years.... Capcom are ripe for a take over, in the last couple of years they have shut down many studios and cut developement teams to the bone, still making money but for how long? What about Pachinko and Pachislot companies? Well Sammy bought Sega, and Azure toyed with SNK (and ironically SNK Playmore are a top ten pachislot maker now...), Twenty One own Tecnosoft, Fields part own the D3 publishing company (and now own a large share of the US Vicious Cycle Software). Be interesting if Sankyo, Sanyo Bussien and Heiwa (3 of the 5 major players not to have a finger in the pie of the software market) buy a medium sized software company. In terms of entertainment sales in Japan, Nintendo are ahead of the pack followed by... Sega Sammy, Namco Bandai, Konami, Sankyo, Square Enix, Heiwa and Capcom (source http://www.segasammy.co.jp/english/ir/pdf/ir/annual/segasammy/2007_02.pdf)
Personally I recon that Microsoft should take some of its huge bank accounts and buy up as much of the japanese companies (more specifically the companies making the games that the japanese gamers are buying) as it can. If it cant buy (or cant afford to buy) companies, it should throw enough money at said companies to secure some 360 exclusives. Microsofts #1 problem is that it doesnt have the games that japanese gamers are buying and playing. Buying some japanese games firms (Capcom? Namco? Square Enix?) would be a good way for Microsoft to get those games (and get those games exclusively on the 360)
I'm sure said nintendo fanboy would want Capcom to be owned by Nintendo. But I think Nintendo is content to roll around in it's scrooge mcduck money bin than start buying people out.........they aren't Microsoft and there are still people in the west that view them as huge assholes. I suspect Microsoft will start buying out tha Capcoms and Konamis of Japan at somepoint.
Sega making new console hardware ? Not likely. MS buying a publisher in Japan i.e. Capcom is not a wise decision. That's like buying a studio in Hollywood you don't really get anything other then the assets. Whereas EA does the samrt thing with a lot of it purchases and it's going after engines and the like that can be licensed. They are still evil but it makes more sense then just buying a "brand".
If anyone bought sega it'd be Microsoft. They've been pretty buddy buddy since the Dreamcast days. Sega doesn't have to publish crap all the time and with Microsoft's money they can work their craft again. We might just get Shenmue 3 out of the deal.
