{"id":1356,"date":"2009-06-10T18:17:11","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T10:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2009-06-10T18:17:11","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T10:17:11","slug":"japanese-games-industry-mergers-2003-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/06\/10\/japanese-games-industry-mergers-2003-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese games industry mergers (2003-2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently saw a reference to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.koeitecmo.co.jp\/\">Koei Tecmo<\/a>&#8221; and found out that Koei and Tecmo have merged. It looks like almost all the large Japanese games software companies now have two-part names (aside from Sony and Nintendo obviously).<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese games industry consolidation has been going for a while though. I made this diagram in order to visualise recent mergers:<\/p>\n<p><img data-attachment-id=\"1355\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/mergers_blog\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/mergers_blog.png?fit=480%2C250&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"480,250\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"mergers_blog\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/mergers_blog.png?fit=300%2C156&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/mergers_blog.png?fit=480%2C250&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/mergers_blog.png?resize=480%2C250\" alt=\"mergers_blog\" title=\"mergers_blog\" width=\"480\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/mergers_blog.png?w=480&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/mergers_blog.png?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The pairings seem fairly natural though&#8230; except for Square Enix buying Eidos&#8230; maybe they wanted to get into Europe. Also, from a consumer perspective, Taito seemed more suited to Namco Bandai.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve love to see a massive diagram showing the flow of money, ownership, licenses, staff, and intellectual property between games companies internationally. I started on something&#8230; but it became fairly overwhelming very quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently saw a reference to &#8220;Koei Tecmo&#8221; and found out that Koei and Tecmo have merged. It looks like almost all the large Japanese games software companies now have two-part names (aside from Sony and Nintendo obviously). The Japanese games industry consolidation has been going for a while though. I made this diagram in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/06\/10\/japanese-games-industry-mergers-2003-2009\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Japanese games industry mergers (2003-2009)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-lS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1356"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1360,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions\/1360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}