namco bandai: weak PS3 sales to slow growth

http://www.sharewatch.com/story.php?storynumber=405737

"PS3 did not make a good start, which will make the transition from the old game console to the next generation system more prolonged than we had earlier thought," Takasu said.

Because of sluggish sales, Namco Bandai plans to release only 23 titles for PS3 in the current fiscal year, compared to 24 games to be sold to Microsoft Corp's Xbox360 and 37 titles to be released for Nintendo Co Ltd's Wii console

http://www.sharewatch.com/story.php?storynumber=405737

"PS3 did not make a good start, which will make the transition from the old game console to the next generation system more prolonged than we had earlier thought," Takasu said.

Because of sluggish sales, Namco Bandai plans to release only 23 titles for PS3 in the current fiscal year, compared to 24 games to be sold to Microsoft Corp's Xbox360 and 37 titles to be released for Nintendo Co Ltd's Wii console

jrpgliker

I wonder what kind of titles namco is going to release? 

Namco has made a lot of garbage over the past couple of years. I have little interest or faith in them anymore...not like I ever did.
majadamus

yeah the gundam and ridge racer titles lately have been half ***ed. ace combat 6 doesnt impress me at all and now that they have sold the xenosaga developer to nintendo all they pretty much have left is the tekken and soul calibour series. namco is becoming a trash developer.

[QUOTE="majadamus"]Namco has made a lot of garbage over the past couple of years. I have little interest or faith in them anymore...not like I ever did.
InfamousC

yeah the gundam and ridge racer titles lately have been half ***ed. ace combat 6 doesnt impress me at all and now that they have sold the xenosaga developer to nintendo all they pretty much have left is the tekken and soul calibour series. namco is becoming a trash developer.

Agreed, but I still like Katamari too.

who honestly cares?

Namco is one of the worst developers around and only pathetic biased japanese people will buy there games 

[QUOTE="InfamousC"]

[QUOTE="majadamus"]Namco has made a lot of garbage over the past couple of years. I have little interest or faith in them anymore...not like I ever did.
RossRichard

yeah the gundam and ridge racer titles lately have been half ***ed. ace combat 6 doesnt impress me at all and now that they have sold the xenosaga developer to nintendo all they pretty much have left is the tekken and soul calibour series. namco is becoming a trash developer.

Agreed, but I still like Katamari too.

I forgot about Soul Calibur. That's the only good thing they got going for them right now. Katamari Damacy was a good 20 bucks spent.......I guess. Soundtrack was weird...but, decent at least.  

who honestly cares?

Namco is one of the worst developers around and only pathetic biased japanese people will buy there games

Huxley_00

..ya, the Japanese are keeping Namco on life support.  

http://www.bandainamco.co.jp/en/ir/financial/pdf/en_20070509_2.pdf

Net sales rose 1.8% to 459.1 billion yen, while operating profits rose 18.4% to 42.2 billion yen.

FY2007.3 Top 10 Game Titles
PS2 Dragon Ball Z Sparking! NEO (1,175,000)
PSP Tekken Dark Resurrection (1,001,000)
NDS Tamagotchi Cornershop 2 (871,000)
PS2 Tekken 5 Platinum (737,000)
PS2 Naruto: Ultimate Ninja (650,000)
PS2 Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny II Plus (531,000)
PS2 Super Dragon Ball Z (466,000)
PS2 Ace Combat Zero (444,000)
PSP Dragon Ball Z Shin Budokai (415,000)
PS2 Soul Calibur III lower-price (404,000)

FY2008.3 Forecast
PS2 - 34 Titles (5,991,000)
PS3 - 23 Titles (2,859,000)
360 - 24 Titles (1,213,000)
Wii - 37 Titles (4,143,000)
PSP - 18 Titles (2,338,000)
NDS - 78 Titles (8,101,000)
Other - 2 Titles (555,000)

Namco needs to shut up and get Tekken 6 rolling out.MantiCore2K8

Yeah, outside of fighting games and Katamari, they haven't been that impressive lately. Tekken : DR on the PSP is probably the best looking handheld game EVER. It's solid. But all those Pac Man World games are feeling rehashed and dull. Dead to Rights sucked. All those Museum games, ugh.

Time to get it together Namco. Maybe, just maybe you can recover from Death By Degrees and make some Tekken and Soul Calibur spinoffs worth a ****

FY2008.3 Forecast
PS2 - 34 Titles (5,991,000)
PS3 - 23 Titles (2,859,000)
360 - 24 Titles (1,213,000)
Wii - 37 Titles (4,143,000)
PSP - 18 Titles (2,338,000)
NDS - 78 Titles (8,101,000)
Other - 2 Titles (555,000)

-cnc-

Wow look at all those DS games!

The 23 PS3 and 24 360 games is very intyersting though. You wouldn't imagine Namco making many exclusive 360 games (I know there is an exclusive Naruto game in the works) so one would imagine that most of those are the same games on both platforms.

[QUOTE="-cnc-"]

FY2008.3 Forecast
PS2 - 34 Titles (5,991,000)
PS3 - 23 Titles (2,859,000)
360 - 24 Titles (1,213,000)
Wii - 37 Titles (4,143,000)
PSP - 18 Titles (2,338,000)
NDS - 78 Titles (8,101,000)
Other - 2 Titles (555,000)

cakeorrdeath

Wow look at all those DS games!

The 23 PS3 and 24 360 games is very intyersting though. You wouldn't imagine Namco making many exclusive 360 games (I know there is an exclusive Naruto game in the works) so one would imagine that most of those are the same games on both platforms.

[QUOTE="MantiCore2K8"]Namco needs to shut up and get Tekken 6 rolling out.TekkenMaster606

Yeah, outside of fighting games and Katamari, they haven't been that impressive lately. Tekken : DR on the PSP is probably the best looking handheld game EVER. It's solid. But all those Pac Man World games are feeling rehashed and dull. Dead to Rights sucked. All those Museum games, ugh.

Time to get it together Namco. Maybe, just maybe you can recover from Death By Degrees and make some Tekken and Soul Calibur spinoffs worth a ****

And you had to bring up Nina's worse spin off of a game ever? Tsk. Namco should really do the 3 version Soul Calibur again with 4. A console getting an exclusive character. And you have seen Ace Combat 6 right? The game looks verra nice. A must buy for me. And Tekken 6? Eh. I just have this feeling that Tekken 6 is going to roll on by as another Tekken 4. It'll go multiplat but I'm going to dread playing on that stupid craptastic 360 controller. I'm a d-pad player, not an arcade stick player. And if Tekken 6 is not online, I'll give up entirely on the Tekken series after 6. I need some bloody competition instead of this lame local types I got around here. They can't handle my Xaioyu skills.

And you had to bring up Nina's worse spin off of a game ever? Tsk. Namco should really do the 3 version Soul Calibur again with 4. A console getting an exclusive character. And you have seen Ace Combat 6 right? The game looks verra nice. A must buy for me. And Tekken 6? Eh. I just have this feeling that Tekken 6 is going to roll on by as another Tekken 4. It'll go multiplat but I'm going to dread playing on that stupid craptastic 360 controller. I'm a d-pad player, not an arcade stick player. And if Tekken 6 is not online, I'll give up entirely on the Tekken series after 6. I need some bloody competition instead of this lame local types I got around here. They can't handle my Xaioyu skills.

hotdaisy18

The 360 d-pad is not as bad as a lot of people make it out to be.

In any case, after these results, Tekken 6 on 360 is pretty much a done deal.

But they better make it online.

[QUOTE="hotdaisy18"]

And you had to bring up Nina's worse spin off of a game ever? Tsk. Namco should really do the 3 version Soul Calibur again with 4. A console getting an exclusive character. And you have seen Ace Combat 6 right? The game looks verra nice. A must buy for me. And Tekken 6? Eh. I just have this feeling that Tekken 6 is going to roll on by as another Tekken 4. It'll go multiplat but I'm going to dread playing on that stupid craptastic 360 controller. I'm a d-pad player, not an arcade stick player. And if Tekken 6 is not online, I'll give up entirely on the Tekken series after 6. I need some bloody competition instead of this lame local types I got around here. They can't handle my Xaioyu skills.

Yellow_Rose

The 360 d-pad is not as bad as a lot of people make it out to be.

In any case, after these results, Tekken 6 on 360 is pretty much a done deal.

But they better make it online.

It can be a pain if you're trying to land 3 electric wind godfists with Kazuya. Here's hoping for a PS3 converter.

[QUOTE="Yellow_Rose"][QUOTE="hotdaisy18"]

And you had to bring up Nina's worse spin off of a game ever? Tsk. Namco should really do the 3 version Soul Calibur again with 4. A console getting an exclusive character. And you have seen Ace Combat 6 right? The game looks verra nice. A must buy for me. And Tekken 6? Eh. I just have this feeling that Tekken 6 is going to roll on by as another Tekken 4. It'll go multiplat but I'm going to dread playing on that stupid craptastic 360 controller. I'm a d-pad player, not an arcade stick player. And if Tekken 6 is not online, I'll give up entirely on the Tekken series after 6. I need some bloody competition instead of this lame local types I got around here. They can't handle my Xaioyu skills.

hotdaisy18

The 360 d-pad is not as bad as a lot of people make it out to be.

In any case, after these results, Tekken 6 on 360 is pretty much a done deal.

But they better make it online.

It can be a pain if you're trying to land 3 electric wind godfists with Kazuya. Here's hoping for a PS3 converter.

Slow growth, i see no growth at all for PS3 anywheregreg_splicer

 :lol:  They are selling about 125,000 in the U.S. Xbox 360 & Wii has twice those sales.

Its over... namco bandai are releasing: ONE more game to the 360 than the PS3, we are doomed!Stumpt25

 I'm wondering if these titles will be released at the same time? Most likely Namco is making them on the PS3 1st, as it would probably be almost impossible trying to convert the game from the 360 to the PS3 without a lot of technical difficulties.

[QUOTE="Stumpt25"]Its over... namco bandai are releasing: ONE more game to the 360 than the PS3, we are doomed!blackace

I'm wondering if these titles will be released at the same time? Most likely Namco is making them on the PS3 1st, as it would probably be almost impossible trying to convert the game from the 360 to the PS3 without a lot of technical difficulties.

What? why? :?

Why would it be more difficult to convert one way than the other? 

[QUOTE="-cnc-"]

FY2008.3 Forecast
PS2 - 34 Titles (5,991,000)
PS3 - 23 Titles (2,859,000)
360 - 24 Titles (1,213,000)
Wii - 37 Titles (4,143,000)
PSP - 18 Titles (2,338,000)
NDS - 78 Titles (8,101,000)
Other - 2 Titles (555,000)

cakeorrdeath

Wow look at all those DS games!

The 23 PS3 and 24 360 games is very intyersting though. You wouldn't imagine Namco making many exclusive 360 games (I know there is an exclusive Naruto game in the works) so one would imagine that most of those are the same games on both platforms.

Don't forget we've got Ace Combat 6 and Katamari both currently coming to the 360. Yes, a lot of the Namco games will be PS3 / 360 multiplatform. I haven't seen many series just jump ship to the 360, rather they all seem to want to stradle both systems, to have a huge install base to work with. 

[QUOTE="blackace"]

[QUOTE="Stumpt25"]Its over... namco bandai are releasing: ONE more game to the 360 than the PS3, we are doomed!cakeorrdeath

I'm wondering if these titles will be released at the same time? Most likely Namco is making them on the PS3 1st, as it would probably be almost impossible trying to convert the game from the 360 to the PS3 without a lot of technical difficulties.

What? why? :?

Why would it be more difficult to convert one way than the other? 

The better path, according to Factor 5, is going from the PlayStation 3 to the Xbox 360

If you create first on the PS3, it is pretty easy to port it to the 360.

http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2007/04/qa_with_factor_5_chief_julian_eggebrecht.html

[QUOTE="greg_splicer"]Slow growth, i see no growth at all for PS3 anywhereblackace

 :lol:  They are selling about 125,000 in the U.S. Xbox 360 & Wii has twice those sales.

i dont see whats so funny. if you look at namcos sales projections they exspect to sell on ps3 almost double what they exspect to sell on 360 even though they are releasing one less title on ps3.

[QUOTE="Yellow_Rose"][QUOTE="hotdaisy18"]

And you had to bring up Nina's worse spin off of a game ever? Tsk. Namco should really do the 3 version Soul Calibur again with 4. A console getting an exclusive character. And you have seen Ace Combat 6 right? The game looks verra nice. A must buy for me. And Tekken 6? Eh. I just have this feeling that Tekken 6 is going to roll on by as another Tekken 4. It'll go multiplat but I'm going to dread playing on that stupid craptastic 360 controller. I'm a d-pad player, not an arcade stick player. And if Tekken 6 is not online, I'll give up entirely on the Tekken series after 6. I need some bloody competition instead of this lame local types I got around here. They can't handle my Xaioyu skills.

hotdaisy18

The 360 d-pad is not as bad as a lot of people make it out to be.

In any case, after these results, Tekken 6 on 360 is pretty much a done deal.

But they better make it online.

It can be a pain if you're trying to land 3 electric wind godfists with Kazuya. Here's hoping for a PS3 converter.

Actually all you need to do is shave down the rim around the Dpad. There is a page on Neogaf that explains it and it takes like 20minutes. 

Anyways...Tekken 6 multiplatform Comfirmed? Or Sony Money Hats....Take your pick^^