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Masaya Nakamura (中村 雅哉, Nakamura Masaya, December 24, 1925 – January 22, 2017) was a Japanese businessman and the founder of Namco.He was the company's president up until 2002, where he took a ceremonial role in its management.
Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. [a] is a Japanese multinational video game publisher, and the video game branch of the wider Bandai Namco Holdings group. Founded in 2006 as Namco Bandai Games Inc., [b] it is the successor to Namco's home and arcade video game business, as well as Bandai's former equivalent division. [3]
Bandai Namco Holdings Inc. [a] (commonly known as Bandai Namco [b] and formerly Namco Bandai until 2015, also known as Bandai Namco Group, [4]) is a Japanese mass media and entertainment conglomerate founded in 2005 by the merger of Namco and Bandai. The company specializes in toys, video games, arcades, anime, restaurants, and amusement parks. [5]
Bandai is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bandai Namco Holdings and heads its parent's Toy and Hobby Content Strategic Business Unit (CSBU). Bandai is among the largest and most profitable toy companies worldwide, alongside Hasbro and Mattel. The company focuses on creating unique and innovative products for its consumers, and to bend established ...
Former Namco Bandai Games (Bandai Namco Entertainment) headquarters in Shinagawa, Tokyo. On January 4, 2006, Namco Hometek was merged with Bandai Games—Bandai America's consumer game division—to create Namco Bandai Games America, absorbing Namco America's subsidiaries and completing Namco and Bandai's merge in North America.
Bandai Namco is best known for its video game franchises; Pac-Man is its highest-grossing franchise with over US$12.8 billion by 2016, [3] while Tekken is its best-selling franchise with over 49 million copies across multiple platforms. [4] By the late 2010s, Bandai Namco was the largest toy company by revenue and the eighth-largest video game ...
Katsuhiro Harada (原田 勝弘, Harada Katsuhiro, born June 10, 1970) is a Japanese game director and producer for Bandai Namco Entertainment. He is best known for his work with the fighting game series Tekken .
In November 2007, Namco Bandai Holdings announced that Banpresto's video game development would be merged with Namco Bandai Games, with the latter assuming control of all Banpresto-owned franchises. [27] The merge took place on April 1, 2008, with Banpresto being reorganized as a producer of toys and prize machines for Japan. [27]