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Namco Bandau game reports a fall in profit of around 63 percent
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solid2snake
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more useless DLC incoming?
Nibelung Valesti
Member
Japan saw the majority of the company's unit sales, with 1.7 million titles sold, while Europe was responsible for 1.39 million, North America for 740,000 and the rest of Asia for 113,000.
Fuck Namco. Where is our DAMN Namco-europe website????
THIS and THIS are shit.
Also, where is my Xenosaga ep.III PAL version? >_<
Smiles and Cries
Member
profit-age is the new sales-age I love this time of year 
most of the companies are posting losses though
most of the companies are posting losses though
el Diablo said:
Namco hasn't had much luck with their 'next gen console' projects:
"The PlayStation 2 platform was the company's best-selling console for games with 1.15 million units sold for it, followed by the Nintendo DS on 985,000 and the PlayStation Portable on 769,000."
That's pretty sad.
Nuclear Muffin
Banned
Yikes, another company posts bad news. At least is wasn't an actual loss
Guess that Wii shovelware wasn't enough to cover the cost of those PS3/360 games after all...
Guess that Wii shovelware wasn't enough to cover the cost of those PS3/360 games after all...
Nibelung Valesti
Member
Do something usefulNetto-kun said:Yet Europe have only gotten uuh...how many Tales of games?
http://www.namcobandaigames.eu/en/features/
Fill the form on the right and ask for the PAL version Tales of the Abyss/Innocence/Hearts and Xenosaga ep.III >_<
It's not as much betting on wrong horse (but that, of course, is also a part of the problem) as just not being able quality-wise with Western publishers, that's why they're getting slaughtered on 360. Look how much releasing SC4 in dry period helped the title, if it was released in October or November it would be ignored.Neo C. said:
GarthVaderUK
Banned
Anyone have a list of games they released in Q1 2008 and in Q1 2009?
szaromir said:
They should take a page out of Capcom's book. That's a company that knows what its doing. Namco got taken in by Microsoft's western promises and the PS3's slow start so they canceled/delayed the PS3 versions of a number of games and bet the bank on their 360 exclusives. Bad idea.
GarthVaderUK
Banned
Just noticed this:
Anyone have details on the other 'segments'?
Anyone have details on the other 'segments'?
SolidSnakex
Member
szaromir said:
It doesn't really need to be to make a big difference for them.
Son of Godzilla
Banned
el Diablo said:
Hurr hurr, hee haw.
Fun fucking fact:
The Idolmaster 360 was released in Japan in January 2007. Which is the period of time this fall is compared to.
GAF really does fail sometimes.
SolidSnakex
Member
szaromir said:
Isn't that exactly what they done? They've banked on the 360's success in Western territories to offset any loses that might occur from Japan. With NAMCO, some of their games are just much bigger in Japan than they are anywhere else. That's not going to change just because but they're hoping that it somehow will.
Toy Soldier
Member
Well, I'll be contributing to their cause next month. Active Life: Outdoor Challenge, here I come.
No, not at all. Releasing games on 360 doesn't really mean these games were made with Western gamers in mind. Eternal Sonata and Tales of Vesperia are just a type of games that were always niche in Western markets. That karaoke game looks like it was made for Japanese pedos, too.SolidSnakex said:
I don't understand why Namco would love Xbox Live because they can sell their pedocostumes or whatever. They could do the exact same thing on PSN. In fact, they might sell more pedocostumes than they do on Xbox, but for sure they would sell more pedocostumes in total.
AC6 should have been on PS3 by now too, but apparently that game sold pretty well. Sure was pretty.
At least Namco has visually stepped into next-gen. Remember their early next-gen stuff (excluding 1080p 60 fps RR, of course) like those Tekken 6 early screens? Yeouch.
edit: Namco is to blame for killing Tales by putting out 200 iterations a week all of varying quality, which in turn kills the brand name and also reduces general "give a shit" quotient of the average buying populace. Tales of Vesperia is going to sell like total ass (Tales' declining popularity in Japan coupled with Tales being an absolute non-starter in America, looking at Abyss). I can't even imagine who said okay to that game being next-gen and exclusive. They should have had a TOSE port team on that like ASAP. And a wii port team too.
AC6 should have been on PS3 by now too, but apparently that game sold pretty well. Sure was pretty.
At least Namco has visually stepped into next-gen. Remember their early next-gen stuff (excluding 1080p 60 fps RR, of course) like those Tekken 6 early screens? Yeouch.
edit: Namco is to blame for killing Tales by putting out 200 iterations a week all of varying quality, which in turn kills the brand name and also reduces general "give a shit" quotient of the average buying populace. Tales of Vesperia is going to sell like total ass (Tales' declining popularity in Japan coupled with Tales being an absolute non-starter in America, looking at Abyss). I can't even imagine who said okay to that game being next-gen and exclusive. They should have had a TOSE port team on that like ASAP. And a wii port team too.
SolidSnakex
Member
szaromir said:
But that's the type of games they make. I mean, I know Capcom gets a lot of praise for what they've done this gen, but they're making the types of games they've always made. They're just multiplatform now, but the style of games are the same. With NAMCO though, they make RPG's and quirky games (like Katamari), along with more mainstream Western games like fighters and racers. But many of the games they make just don't have a lot of pull in Western territories. That's not really something you change overnight.
Paracelsus
Member
klee123 said:
Vesperia and Sonata are just victims of PS3's "fucked up" development cycle. The "appeal to the western market" is just an excuse.
There are shitty port houses that do this kind of work cheap and fast (and shittily). I'd say Namco would have an issue with diluting their brand quality but....yeah.Paracelsus said:
I mean Vesperia is not coming out in January of 2007. The PS3 has been out for almost 2 years, so even assuming that they just absolutely could not get PS3 dev kits until two weeks ago, SOME people should be doing gruntwork like right now.