| TheSource said: It seems like just a little while ago that... Acclaim, Activision, Bandai, Bioware, Blizzard, Enix, Pandemic, Namco, Sammy, Sega, Square, Take Two, Ubisoft were all essentially controlled by different people. But in the last 5 years or so... Sega and Sammy consolidated Bandai is partially owned by Namco Square and Enix merged Activision and Vivendi Games (Blizzard) merged Bio Ware and Pandemic have been bought out by EA (and Microsoft previously) EA likely will buy Take Two EA own something like 30% of Ubisoft Acclaim went bankrupt
The biggest 3rd parties to seem unaffected (either buying or getting bought) are Konami, Capcom, THQ, Koei, Majesco, and a few others, but even they participate to a degree. |
SquareEnix bought Taito, Konami owns Hudson, Sci acquired Eidos and now SCi/Eidos is in financial trouble, Atari and Midway are both in bad water, Majesco is recovering from big/medium budget games failure ( es : Psychonouts ) using low profile titles like Cooking Mama, Takara and Tomy merged.
“In the entertainment business, there are only heaven and hell, and nothing in between and as soon as our customers bore of our products, we will crash.” Hiroshi Yamauchi
TAG: Like a Yamauchi pimp slap delivered by Il Maelstrom; serving it up with style.
