Nintendo buys out Monolith Software

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Segatron Genesis... call me the wizard.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6169813...stnews;title;0

Namco Bandai Games today announced on its Japanese Web site that it is selling its majority interest in developer Monolith Soft to Nintendo. According to the publisher, Nintendo has acquired 80 percent of the company's shares.

Namco Bandai is considering the sale as a way to strengthen its relationship with Nintendo and is not entirely ending its involvement with Monolith Soft. Namco Bandai will retain 16 percent of the developer's shares and will continue to count the studio among its partners. Best known as the developer behind Namco Bandai's Baten Kaitos and Xenosaga series of role-playing games, Monolith Soft is also currently at work on Nintendo's Disaster: Day of Crisis for the Wii.

This more rpgs for the wii.
 
Monkey on Crack said:
Trust me you are going to see more and more things disappear cause companys are getting bigger and bigger. Wich sucks.
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Usually when a company merges with another, or is bought out by another, the only things that "disapear" are the items/services that simply do not sell. Is that bad? Maybe for a select few people. But if the unpopularity of an item triggers it's demise, is that a bad thing? Rarely yes. Mostly no.

Bottom line is that Nintendo will benefit from this. We will start seeing more titles that otherwise wouldn't be on Nintendo's systems. And when one developer goes away, another one comes and takes it's place.
 
Dart said:
Usually when a company merges with another, or is bought out by another, the only things that "disapear" are the items/services that simply do not sell. Is that bad? Maybe for a select few people. But if the unpopularity of an item triggers it's demise, is that a bad thing? Rarely yes. Mostly no.

Bottom line is that Nintendo will benefit from this. We will start seeing more titles that otherwise wouldn't be on Nintendo's systems. And when one developer goes away, another one comes and takes it's place.
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I don't think that was his point. It sucks when one company gains the power microsoft or EA has. They buy up successful companies (i.e westwood) and everything becomes "how many games can we sell?" and how good a game is becomes secondary. This hasn't happened yet with Westwood, but there are things about smaller game developers that are often better.
 
Homicidal Cherry53 said:
I don't think that was his point. It sucks when one company gains the power microsoft or EA has. They buy up successful companies (i.e westwood) and everything becomes "how many games can we sell?" and how good a game is becomes secondary. This hasn't happened yet with Westwood, but there are things about smaller game developers that are often better.
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Don't forget Criterion...
 
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