On one hand I don't see much benefit in Nintendo owning what is primarily a toy & anime company besides maybe for Amiibo later down the road, on the other hand Nintendo owning Digimon is too hilarious to not allow Nintendo to buy Bandai.
Here is one ' I need to learn Japanese moments' as seems most of the info is in Japanese. The other that was one of iwata big moves and very pushes forward by the board. Meaning they have a plan, a very big one
Plus a lot of licenses too, plus sunrise and others as animation studios.
He's referring to the toy rights which includes video games. Not actual ownership of the IP. Toei owns both Super Sentai and Kamen Rider.
Yes to the toy and game rights. But the distribution rights are shared between Toei and TV Asahi.
Nintendo and/or Sega making games and toys based on Cowboy Bebop, Gundam, and Code Geass? Count me in!
DAMN we opened the pandora box with that last one... regardless Getting Banpresto, sunrise and Bandai own toys facilities are massive acquisition and that was a time Nintendo was hellbend expanding into general entertainment (kirby anime, f zero one too, the animal crossing anime ended up a movie,a failed SMB movie too)Nintendo and/or Sega making games and toys based on Cowboy Bebop, Gundam, and Code Geass? Count me in!
But wait! Why stop there? According to this list:
It's possible that Nintendo would also get the game rights to Sailor Moon, One Piece, Naruto, and DRAGON BALL!!!List of Bandai Namco video game franchises - Wikipedia
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Yes, you heard me right. Dragon Ball would be an honorary Nintendo property as far as merchandising goes. Sleep well, folks!
My thoughts exactly on whats happening.
Technically speaking Nintendo was using their pokemon profit(Q Fund wast their SNES one BTW) for their Attempted takeover of Bandai, after that they barely tried, seems that left a bad taste on Iwata and the board(remember Nintendo as a public company have a board, we not only have the Yamauchi but big investor like bank of japan, nomura securities, jp morgan of japan, ,etc) , wonder if that is why they just stock swapped for monolith and never bothered try to salvage Midway, THQ or Atlus
I would leave Monolith for last(they were 2006-7 OTL) but your idea, as I said before, was Baten Kaitos 1 and 2 that showed to Nintendo that those guys were so talented worth download their bamco stocks rather than allow them to be killed and put into tales or anime licenses(fun fact...they did made an anime license for Nintendo, the Dragon ball RPG of Dragon Ball: Attack of the Saiyans, done by the current Monolithsoft Kyoto team(ie the zelda team))
Nintendo and/or Sega making games and toys based on Cowboy Bebop, Gundam, and Code Geass? Count me in!
But wait! Why stop there? According to this list:
It's possible that Nintendo would also get the game rights to Sailor Moon, One Piece, Naruto, and DRAGON BALL!!!List of Bandai Namco video game franchises - Wikipedia
Yes, you heard me right. Dragon Ball would be an honorary Nintendo property as far as merchandising goes. Sleep well, folks!
Hell, there might be a case for Gacha-styled Amiibo cards by the end of the Wii years due to Bandai's Cardass imprint. The money that comes in is enough to make Disney grit their teeth like Stannis Baratheon.
Like an evolution of the e-reader? That would be interesting, especially as would be cheaper once NFC chips are everywhere. Another would improve amiibo early too.
That is a good start, still i have a more massive idea for amiibo even if never would happen anyway
Amiibo was already happening earlier (2010) ITTL since Tim and Chris Stamper apparently had the idea back during the N64 days but now Bandai is probably gonna make it happen even sooner.