NISA (western publishing arm) is doing OK I think, its the Japanese main branch that is having a harder time. Also, a lot of games that you see in the states under NIS tag are localized publishing deals,  and have nothing to do with NIS JPN.

I would love for Nippon Ichi to merge with another company or be bought out by a big company. They would be able to release better games and more money to fund there games, the company has great potential.

I still think Marvelous and N1 would make for a good merger... if, y'know, both weren't financially in the toilet. :/

they should merge.... in the whole of my adult life, i though merger was the only solution...

I'm still surprised that people are blaming the PS3, being that Last Rebellion bombed. Which is to be entirely expected for a bad game. It's not really different from how a lot of bad games have been doing lately. (and to add that Last Rebellion was never dubbed in Japanese!)

Silly investors. If they used VGChartz, they would have dumped their stocks a while ago.