Author Topic: Nintendo buys BANDAI's shares! (Read 5117 times)

Mario · « **on:** October 15, 2003, 08:57:10 PM »

http://www.gendai.net/contents.asp?c=010&id=6192

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Nintendo BANDAI purchasing plan

It is a large severe earthquake at the game industry. According to the information which our paper acquired Nintendo ‚Ì" BANDAI The purchasing plan" is progressing.
Nintendo also says BANDAI stock acquisition is accepted and "it acquires 1,280,000 stocks before the split-ups of stocks at the end of September" (public-relations person in charge). [ which BANDAI performed ] Sudden surfacing of this will be carried out in 2.6% of the number of stocks total [ published ] at the major stockholder of the higher rank of less than No. 10.

Nintendo has bought 128 million shares (2.8%) of Bandai, and is planning to purchase them. Dayum! They just crossed the Wonderswan and Digimon off their enemy list, they now have many franchises at thier disposal, Naruto, Gundam, Digimon, and tons more of that anime crap. This is big news!

EDIT: Actually maybe its just 2.6% of Bandai that they own now.

akdaman1 · « **Reply #1 on:** October 15, 2003, 09:12:35 PM »

what games have they made in the past?

Koopa Troopa · « **Reply #2 on:** October 15, 2003, 10:08:57 PM »

I know the name, and know it well, but nothing of any real import comes to mind. I guess Gundam is pretty popular?

PIAC · « **Reply #3 on:** October 16, 2003, 12:45:56 AM »

Bandai make DigDug and the popular DBZ Budokai (among other DBZ games), basically if its an anime game licence, Bandai have it.

a list of bandai's games (source IGN)

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #4 on:** October 16, 2003, 03:15:05 AM »

Well you do know that Ninty has that LE Red Gundam GC in Japan, don't you? I'm not surprised at this at all. Maybe they will bring Naruto over here

Pale · « **Reply #5 on:** October 16, 2003, 04:08:44 AM »

Just to clear some things up, bandai didn't make budokai, but they did make a bunch of the older dbz games....and they did make (or at least publish) the .hack series which i am really enjoying over on the ps2.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #6 on:** October 16, 2003, 04:27:31 AM »

OK, take this with a grain of salt. Famitsu believes that the buying of Bandai's shares could lead to something a little bit bigger...If you know what I mean...

The Omen · « **Reply #7 on:** October 16, 2003, 04:29:23 AM »

So they're exclusive to Nintendo now? Definately good for Japan...i don't know about here. Bring back Kid Nikki! I think bandai made it.

Fish · « **Reply #8 on:** October 16, 2003, 05:27:51 AM »

Gamefront.de says both Nintendo and Bandai says it's not true, atleast when I translate the article with systranbox.com, I might have screwed up the translation though.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #9 on:** October 16, 2003, 05:29:15 AM »

And we all know how many times Ninty has denied things that eventually turn out true, right?

Fish · « **Reply #10 on:** October 16, 2003, 05:37:50 AM »

*Me thinks of Rare*

Well, it dosen't take that long.

But could Nintendo in all honesty afford Bandai? I mean, it's not like they are a small company, they own tons of stuff, their last PS2 game already broke 500,000. Even if they could afford, would Nintendo be willing to pay hundres of millions, maybe even a billion $ or more for them?

BlkPaladin · « **Reply #11 on:** October 16, 2003, 07:53:32 AM »

The thing is they don't have to buy them Just purchase a big enough chunck. But personally I don't think they will do it. Because Bandai isn't only a game company they have a rather big and healthy anime publishing division. So unless Bandai is unloading their game division for some strange reason, it isn't Nintendo style to buy outright or get a company that does some thing more than games.

.... Though then again they now have the Pokemon company that does more than games so that could be changing.

Fish · « **Reply #12 on:** October 16, 2003, 08:01:22 AM »

Nintendo only own 30% of Pokemon company. Nintendo owns the licenses though, but they just let Pokemon publish them and PR things. Maybe they o the same to Bandai, buys 20-30% to get to be the boss and get the exclusives.

And I did some research, and bandai share costs 2850 yen, and 100% of Bandai would cost little less than 1.3billion. So Nintendo could afford them, but they probably will buy just little bit, if any. Reuters writes about this too, and they are pretty reliable.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #13 on:** October 16, 2003, 08:20:37 AM »

The chance of Nintendo completely buying out Bandai is so slim it's not funny. Ninty doesn't want Bandai's anime, they want their games...I think it's very likely we could get the .hack games, and I like that possibility

Fish · « **Reply #14 on:** October 16, 2003, 08:49:12 AM »

I read the Reuters article, and it says Nintendo has no intentions to acquire Bandai, they just bought those stocks because shareholders approached them. So might be Nintendo won't be buying any more shares. Though Bandai did say in that article that Nintendo was likely to be one of the top 10 shareholders of the comapny. Wonder is 2.6% really enough to be one of the biggest shareholders in such a huge company...

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #15 on:** October 16, 2003, 08:54:22 AM »

That's the thing. Since the company is so big, there are very few people that could own such a large amount of shares...

Though Ninty only has 2.6%, that 2.6% is made up of 128 million shares...Yeah, that is a LOT

CaseyRyback · « **Reply #16 on:** October 16, 2003, 10:12:09 AM »

I bet nintendo buys about 15 percent like Sony did with Square in order to secure a good amount of exclusivity and will boost sales big time in Japan

Berny · « **Reply #17 on:** October 16, 2003, 10:24:51 AM »

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Originally posted by: Bill
Famitsu believes that the buying of Bandai's shares could lead to something a little bit bigger...If you know what I mean...

OMG!!! NINTENDO WILL BUY SONY! THEY RAE PLANING 2 BOM M$ HQ W/THER SECRET WEAPON *whispers* teh Megaton Bomb!!!! HOLY CRAP!!!! TEH CONSOLE WARZ HAVE BEGUN!!!

joeamis · « **Reply #18 on:** October 16, 2003, 11:45:15 AM »

they will just buy that 2+% if they buy any, that way they can earn money from Bandai's success and ofcourse have access to bandai licenses. I'm not surprised because anime is really growing in the US, and Nintendo might be planning for this lucretive future.

Perfect Cell · « **Reply #19 on:** October 16, 2003, 09:31:49 PM »

I thought Iwata had said that Nintendo would not buy any company in the near future? Was Iwata lieing then? Odd really, why would Nintendo want Bandai? When Bandai makes their money off Anime, toys and Power rangers...

akdaman1 · « **Reply #20 on:** October 16, 2003, 09:50:11 PM »

i could see bandai helping out nintendo buy making the toys and making great games. greaat purchase but still no capcom.

Pale · « **Reply #21 on:** October 17, 2003, 06:18:42 AM »

All I can say is, can you imagine if a Ninty development team got their hands on a great anime license? For once we'd have a good game about one of the animes we all enjoy. I think that would rock.

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