Bandai and Namco to merge

[Jasonkhowell]

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/05...s_6123385.html

Comepared to the Sega/Sammy merger, thats a good one. Hell, I even confuse Bandai games with Namco ones from time to time, so it sounds pretty good.

[Paulo]

Umm cool... but where does that leave the bandai toys and other things...

[SuperGrafx]

I'm all for it! :)

[KIT786]

Didn't Nintendo own a large chunk of Bandai shares?

[Zilog Jones]

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

Sega & Namco: Good games
Sammy & Bandai: Cack games :-D

[Yakumo]

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

[Mr. Casual]

Does that mean we might see more Neo Geo action figures one day?

[GaijinPunch]

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.

[AntiPasta]

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

[subbie]

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

[XerdoPwerko]

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

[Evangelion-01]

i heard bandai is buying out namco, so is not a merge xD,but my sources could be wrong "crappy spanish site"

[Perkunas]

i heard bandai is buying out namco, so is not a merge xD,but my sources could be wrong "crappy spanish site"

They are wrong, the official source is talking about a joint holding company.

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

[GaijinPunch]

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

Bandai Namco holdings will be established on 09.29.05, which will alot to current shareholderss 1 share for each share of Namco, and 1 share for each 1.5 shares of Bandai. The seperate shares will stop trading on 09.22.05.