coyotino [he/him]@beehaw.org to Gaming@beehaw.orgEnglish · 3 months agoSony has acquired 2.5% of Elden Ring publisher Bandai Namco in a ‘strategic partnership’ | VGCwww.videogameschronicle.comexternal-linkmessage-square6linkfedilinkarrow-up117arrow-down10
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minus-squarebrsrklflinkfedilinkarrow-up13·3 months ago“Elden Ring publisher”. This is a weird way to describe Bandai Namco. Especially in relation to Sony that already owns 14% of From Software and 10% of Kadokawa (who owns most of From Software).
minus-squareDoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 months agoThey got to do what most fans will recognize and click on. A fuck ton of people know what elden ring is so that increases familiarity
minus-squarecoyotino [he/him]@beehaw.orgOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months ago“Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero publisher Bandai Namco” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.
minus-squareDoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 months ago“Katamari Damacy publisher bandai namco”
minus-squarexylol@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoI guess since its a gaming article they have to show why bandai has any relation to gaming
minus-squarebrsrklflinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-23 months ago… What about the Namco part? Ridge Racer? Soulcalibur? Tekken? Tales of Whatever? Freaking PAC-MAN?
“Elden Ring publisher”. This is a weird way to describe Bandai Namco.
Especially in relation to Sony that already owns 14% of From Software and 10% of Kadokawa (who owns most of From Software).
They got to do what most fans will recognize and click on. A fuck ton of people know what elden ring is so that increases familiarity
“Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero publisher Bandai Namco” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.
“Katamari Damacy publisher bandai namco”
I guess since its a gaming article they have to show why bandai has any relation to gaming
… What about the Namco part?
Ridge Racer? Soulcalibur? Tekken? Tales of Whatever? Freaking PAC-MAN?