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Title: Koei to Buy Tecmo
Post by: Chessa on November 20, 2008, 03:16:13 AM
Following the decline of the Square Enix offer, Tecmo and Koei are now ready to merge.
 http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=17237

 In a stock deal worth approximately 20 billion yen ($207 million), Koei and Tecmo agreed to merge under a holding company in April 2009. Tecmo will exchange 1 of each of their shares for 0.9 shares in the new company, Tecmo Koei Holdings, while Koei would have a one to one exchange for their current shares.    


Both companies agreed to the merger after Tecmo declined the takeover bid from the larger company, Square Enix earlier this year. According to Tecmo, Koei will "give [them] a greater chance of boosting corporate value."    


Fierce competition within the gaming market alongside escalating costs for marketing and development have led game companies to seek alliances in order to decrease cost and increase profit.    


The companies are projecting that the merger will generate an operating profit of over 16 billion yen by the year ending March 2012 with sales reaching 70 billion yen.

Title: Re: Koei to Buy Tecmo
Post by: ThePerm on November 23, 2008, 11:28:05 PM
cool now square can buy koei, or nintendo
Title: Re: Koei to Buy Tecmo
Post by: ShyGuy on November 24, 2008, 05:12:05 PM
What does this mean for Itagaki.
Title: Re: Koei to Buy Tecmo
Post by: TheYoungerPlumber on November 24, 2008, 08:59:11 PM
It means he can sue a holding company with more money than Tecmo alone.
Title: Re: Koei to Buy Tecmo
Post by: Flames_of_chaos on April 01, 2009, 10:22:35 AM
 Koei Tecmo logo (http://www.koeitecmo.co.jp/img/index_p01.gif)
Title: Re: Koei to Buy Tecmo
Post by: Stogi on April 01, 2009, 12:19:11 PM
balls that's ugly
Title: Re: Koei to Buy Tecmo
Post by: NWR_DrewMG on April 01, 2009, 12:25:11 PM
CONFIRMED: Tecmo Bowl 2009 to feature teams consisting of legendary Shogun Warriors fighting for territorial control in ancient Japan, all new animations, and an exciting new turn-based passing game.  Look out for it soon!
Title: Re: Koei to Buy Tecmo
Post by: NWR_DrewMG on April 01, 2009, 12:28:06 PM
Also confirmed: Another joke about Shogun Warrior Princesses wearing bikinis.
Title: Re: Koei to Buy Tecmo
Post by: Ian Sane on April 01, 2009, 12:47:40 PM
So in the end is there only going to be like four videogame publishers?  We're becoming like the film and music industries.  It was probably inevitable but still a bummer.
Title: Re: Koei to Buy Tecmo
Post by: KDR_11k on April 01, 2009, 01:52:38 PM
Nah, as the old wood rots away new trees grow.
Title: Re: Koei to Buy Tecmo
Post by: Kairon on April 01, 2009, 11:00:06 PM
Quote from: Ian Sane on April 01, 2009, 12:47:40 PM
So in the end is there only going to be like four videogame publishers?  We're becoming like the film and music industries.  It was probably inevitable but still a bummer.

Not if Nintendo has its way! WiiWare, DSiWare... refusal to subscribe to business models that encourage giant company-ism... refusal to buy up companies left and right.
Title: Re: Koei to Buy Tecmo
Post by: TJ Spyke on April 01, 2009, 11:10:56 PM
Quote from: KDR_11k on April 01, 2009, 01:52:38 PM
Nah, as the old wood rots away new trees grow.

But there are not really any new major publishers. If I had to name the major publishers left: Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Square Enix, Sega Sammy, Namco Bandai, Activision Blizzard, Tecmo Koei, Disney Interactive, Konami, THQ, Ubisoft, Midway (for now), Capcom, Atari, Take-Two Interactive, Electronic Arts. I think that's it, pretty much everyone else would be mid-sized or small publisher. That is still more than the film industry and music industry though, both of which only have about 6 or 7 major publishers.
Title: Re: Koei to Buy Tecmo
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on April 02, 2009, 03:14:23 AM
It doesn't bother me much because Eidios has been declining for years. Most of the publishers who are getting bought up haven't really done anything great for quite awhile.