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Namco Bandai Named Most “Powerful” Japanese Game Company, Sony Drops Sharply, Nintendo Collapses

Every year Japan’s prominent business and economy magazine Toyo Keizai publishes the New – Corporate Power Ranking where it grades Japanese companies on four parameters: growth, profitability, safety and scale.

Namco Bandai was the first ranked between video game companies. Sony dropped sharply, while Nintendo literally collapsed by more than 1400 positions in the overall ranking.

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MultiConsoleGamer3749d ago

Very happy for Namco Bandai. I love me some Pac-Man!

Magicite3748d ago

More RPGs please! Tales games FTW!

djplonker3748d ago

I agree who needs a decent ff game when there is tales games!

Spenok3748d ago

Absolutely. Just picked up Tales of Xillia on the PSN for $10. Already excited for Xillia 2 :D

Magicite3748d ago

Tales are great on its own, but they cant replace Final Fantasy ever.

RandomGamer3748d ago

I agree and unlike like Square Enix with Final Fantasy Namco Bandai doesn't always try to change the formula so much they alienate large portions of the fan base .

GameNameFame3748d ago (Edited 3748d ago )

Well. I just check stock. Sony market cap is over 17 billion dollars.

Namco Bandai is 4 billion... So Sony is over 4 times bigger. Not sure if the author read 4 billion in yen or something lol. Kinda bad journalism. Namcos stock have been rising though.

Still,completely false article. Author needs better homework

Skip_Bayless3748d ago

PS4>PS3 , so this subjective ranking system is gonna change come next year :)

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truefan13748d ago

Are they including the complete Sony company? I can understand if they are including the other struggling departments, but if its ps4 only why did it fall? ps4 has had a pretty successful launch with sales and reviews, so why the drop?

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Snookies123748d ago

@R0ver0ff - If they're 'betting everything on the PS4', then they're going to be absolutely fine. That thing is taking off.

Gamer19823748d ago

Its the complete Sony company yeah. Not just gaming division even though the article is slightly misleading but they put Sony in there as they do make games. It doesn't say SEJ it says Sony. So that includes there TV and entertainment divisions which have taken massive hits over the past few years especially there TV department thanks to warehouse floods and 3D not taking off etc..

ShinMaster3748d ago

@ R0ver0ff

That's a good bit of stealth trolling right there.

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Chrono3749d ago

Namco is probably one of the few old Japanese video game companies that are still doing as good as before or even better.

Concertoine3748d ago

Most of it probably isnt even games too...
They own all those animes and stuff.

YellowTempes3748d ago

And they're doing a great job for all their products, that's for sure.

mewhy323748d ago

Nintendo is really in need of some redirection.

Volkama3749d ago (Edited 3749d ago )

With great power comes great.... earning potential?

Good for them keeping up with the industry where others are struggling to adapt.

RIIIIIIIDGE RAAAAACER

Silly gameAr3749d ago

Grrrr, Heeey! This isn't a TitanFall or X1 article! What are you doing here?!

Volkama3748d ago

Hi!

I stick to articles that interest me :) Titanfall and X1 are on that list (on separate lines, as I'm getting Titanfall for the PC), but there are many other things on it too!

Japanese companies of influence are only moderately interesting though, so perhaps I should leave.

MrWonderful3748d ago

with great power comes releasing more of the Tales series outside of the East.

mii-gamer3749d ago

Nintendo has a safety rating of 998 which is almost close to perfect. But Nintendo's growth is poor, which is expected since the 3DS has been selling steadily well while the wii u has been struggling. Nintendo only needs to work on the profitability this year (which will be hard) to get back to the where they were in 2012.

Good find Abriael

abzdine3748d ago (Edited 3748d ago )

no surprise about that, Namco have been delivering for the past years.
I don't know what's wrong with SCEJ

ZodTheRipper3748d ago

Read this
http://kotaku.com/how-sonys...

Short version: They were struggling with the PS3 and their old fashioned approach to game development but the future looks promising thanks to some internal restructuring done by the former head of Sony Santa Monica.

abzdine3748d ago (Edited 3748d ago )

i still think it's strange we haven't seen any announcement other than Knack. Let's wait and see what they are up to but i really hope they release something for the oldschool fans.

thanks 4 the link

ZodTheRipper3748d ago

Well it's strange because you're wrong. They released Soul Sacrifice, Rain, Puppeteer, and Knack in the last 12 months. They are currently working on Destiny of Spirits, Soul Sacrifice Delta, Gravity Rush 2, Deep Down and The Last Guardian.

majiebeast3748d ago (Edited 3748d ago )

They are also working on freedom wars together with the developer of Gods eater 2. The rumoured Demons souls 2/spiritual succesor and probably some other stuff we havent heard of. Allan Becker is telling Fumito Ueda to get of his ass and finish Last Guardian.

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Sony Patents To Prevent You From In-Game Harassment By Reading Your Emotions

A new patent recently published by Sony wants to gather biometric data of gamers to track whether one is being harassed using AI tools.

Profchaos22h ago(Edited 22h ago)

I hope this is one of those patents that never comes to fruition.

I already dislike the fact you can pay a significant amount for a online service buy associated games and content on said service and get banned from that service over potentially a misunderstanding the bans are already handed out for flimsy reasons

I'd rather see money invested in a ban that simply removes the offensive players ability to communicate with unknown players allow them to continue party chats with friends but not with Joe blow on cod.

exputers18h ago

Agreed. Blizzard recently banned a college Overwatch 2 player who's dependent for saying "shit." Pretty harsh.

Profchaos3h ago(Edited 3h ago)

How rediculas really. You can't say a word that's allowed in most PG films and prime time TV but the game is based around killing the enemy team using guns, explosives etc.

It's just backwards.

just_looken5h ago

What your talking about is called block list

In 2006 a spaceship dropped of the playstation 3/xbox 360 i say that that generation was the last great gen with game functions/tech that has yet to comeback

Anyhow the playstation 3 if you block listed a id they could not talk to you in chatroom with either text or voice. But that was pre mind fucked 2018 when people were more human than sheep.

But hey gta 6 is coming out billion dollar budget without a single player custom character creator and without singeplayer coop off/online something saints row 1-3 had on the xbox 360.

z2g14h ago

Take my social security and bank account numbers too! Here’s a picture of my wife and our address.

phoenixwing14h ago

Cmon where's the pictures of your children. Don't hold out on them.

H914h ago

At this rate I feel Sony will eventually sell a room to play games in it where they can monitor your every breath

jambola10h ago

I genuinely get a bit worried sometimes when a friend says something that could be offensive In a party
Because I have no trouble believing some bans would happen when in a private party for saying something wrong

SegaSaturn66913h ago

I want them to censor erotic content by measuring my groin temperature so i dont get too distracted while playing black ops 2.

Popsicle13h ago

Terrible idea. Not only do I not consent to providing my biometric data, the potential for mishandling biometric data is almost a certainty. Positive stress and negative stress can produce similar changes in biometrics. Interpreting the precise emotion a person is feeling is not only invasive but could be easily misconstrued. I hope this never comes to fruition.

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Sony Could Increase Your Game's Difficulty If It Sees You Complain About It

Sony has recently published a new patent that wants to dynamically handle the games' difficulty and gameplay based on the player's emotions.

jznrpg1d 6h ago

This is something I might use. Sometimes I play some good games but they don’t have difficulty option and are a little too easy.

Profchaos1d 5h ago

Souls games will be like that players struggling make it harder

PassNextquestion1d 5h ago (Edited 1d 4h ago )

I think if used correctly it could work well

jambola1d 1h ago

cool idea
cool idea for horror games especially
the way it's explained here sounds like it could never be forced hopefully, so that's ok with me

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Nintendo's Massacre Of The 3DS And Wii U Is Finally Complete, Regrettably

Hanzala from eXputer: "The cruel hammer of Nintendo has fallen. Farewell, 3DS and Wii U, you surely brightened my life and many others; you won't be forgotten."