Looking at the performance of New Super Mario Bros. Wii a New Pac Man might not be such a bad idea. But yeah, Namco is in trouble they can't seem to adapt to the new market. Their 'hit' titles not called Tales are far and few in between and since they're merged with Bandai no one would want to pick them up for cheap. I think it's just one of those companies that could use new management. They've got some valuable IP's and they're not doing nearly enough to take advantage of that. Instead they just release another five Tales games and call it a day.OutlawSamurai said:
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Namco Has Large Losses, Blames Everything But Tekken, Cuts 10% Staff,Reveals New Plan
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OutlawSamurai
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2DMention said:
a new Xenosaga, Tales of, new RPG franchise...
+ Ace Combat 7, Soul Calibur 5, Death to Rights & of course a new KLONOA
Guileless
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OutlawSamurai said:
I got my money's worth out of RR 6 & RR 7. Unfortunately for Namco and good taste, nowadays people would rather race for virtual money to trick out their Civics and sit through some ridiculous story where you're the new guy in town who has to prove himself against the multi-ethnic toughs who own the city by outracing their leader while you woo the girl in a tube top who drops the flag.
~Devil Trigger~
In favor of setting Muslim women on fire
We need another Urban Reign
A Twisty Fluken
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Pacman CE is the best thing they've done this gen, more or less.OutlawSamurai said:
OutlawSamurai
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[Nintex] said:
Pac Man HD will sell 5 million copies first month:lol :lol :lol They got decent IPs but bad managment just like SEGA
sixteen-bit
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<3A Twisty Fluken said:
Mayor Haggar
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~Devil Trigger~ said:
Honestly, a HD Urban Reign with online and co-op?
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Space Runaway
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Namco's been going downhill since the Bandai merger. Hopefully something good with come from all this though.
Going only by US ltd sales, every iteration until 6 hit a million or just about.
Edit: Not counting handhelds version of course. Though DR PSP is still ahead of T6 PS3+X360 in US sales as of Dec but that should change soon if it hasn't already.
Linkup said:
Going only by US ltd sales, every iteration until 6 hit a million or just about.
Edit: Not counting handhelds version of course. Though DR PSP is still ahead of T6 PS3+X360 in US sales as of Dec but that should change soon if it hasn't already.
OutlawSamurai
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Guileless said:
EA definetly made their money in Need For Speed Underground just when the whole Fast and Furious fad took off. EA definetly made the right decision with good managment. Fast forward 3-4 yrs and Namco releases Ridge Racer 6/7 which is crap in my opinion. EA definetly got my money since NFSU series was way better then RR 6/7
sixteen-bit
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Tekken was a phenomenal seller in the past. The series peaked saleswise with Tekken 3, which sold over 6 million copies worldwide.Linkup said:
OutlawSamurai
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wrowa said:
Fighting games peaked 10 yrs ago with Tekken 3... time to move on to FPS Namco
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
It's okay, they got a new Dead to Rights game coming out soon.
OutlawSamurai
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cjelly said:
Besides me and you who on earth knows about this game:lol
Their net loss was $350 million USD, not $1.4 million. Also, their expected profit was $95 million. Just how small of a company do you think Namco is? :lol
Edit: Those are projections, too. I don't really get what your arrows are pointing to.
Edit2: Ohhh, these are revised projections, not an earnings release. Sheesh.
Edit: Those are projections, too. I don't really get what your arrows are pointing to.
Edit2: Ohhh, these are revised projections, not an earnings release. Sheesh.
Respect the Tales franchise better outside of Japan and you got me. Besides translating titles that already exists properly I could go for HD 2D Tales game and a 3D one on the PS3 as long as it characters and story dont make me cringe Namco! A few fables that adult gamers could digest as well in the gameplan. Keeping the Japanese language track at bare minimum.
Chemo said:
Namco should start investing in new franchises instead of beating their old warhorses to pulp. It's clear that there's no real future in series like Ridge Racer, Tekken and Ace Combat anymore. They've been cruising on their past successes since the PS1 and seem to be unable to do something different. Sure, there'll be a lot of fans here for new entries in the series but since each new game sells less than the previous game why bother?
velvet_nitemare
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Parl said:
They got paid, so they won't crap on Tekken. But they probably lost some goodwill with retailers after that.
MightyHedgehog
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Aside from their niche JRPG lines, when was the last time Namco felt like they were positioning a big new title as something to look forward to? Their release list feels old, like *yawn* last gen retreads and sequels. Where's the interesting new stuff to look forward to? Seems like, to me, Pac-Man CE was the last fresh-feeling thing coming out of them...and that's simply a great remix of an old game...a small title for DD.
I AM JOHN!
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Whatever happened to that Splatterhouse remake? It's been almost a year since they took it from BottleRocket and gave it to the team that made that horrible Afro Samurai game.
ThatCrazyGuy
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DR2K said:
If this is true, there's gonna be alot of cheap copies floating around for a while. Must piss off the retailers.