There Is Something Seriously Wrong...

[ECM]

Well, duh? What else are they going to tell their shareholders? That *they* fucked up?

Case in point: Namco has been going through a financial Armageddon for the last few years and they *still* haven't changed anything. At all. It's all Tekken, Soul Calibur, etc. along with the token cooking game on Wii.

In a sane world, Namco's shareholders would have burned the company to the ground by now because they're doing it wrong. (I would love to hear management's excuses for utterly failing to make a go of it on a platform w/ a massive userbase *and* cheap dev costs.)

Also: your catatar is freaking me out a little.

[elchevalier]

Yeah, well, Namco at least already cancelled the entire "games made by western developers, derp" thing. The rest is just playing it safe: Soul Calibur, Tekken and Tales of games sell? Let's release another dozen of each! What could go wrong?

Also, i've been doing the exact face that cat is doing a lot lately.

[ECM]

The thing is, they aren't selling that well, especially when you have an entity the size of Nacmo to support, so they're 'playign it safe'...by spending a gazillion dollars on 'safe' bets that aren't really, uh, all that safe.