Nippon Ichi? More like Nippon Maru.

[Bebpo]

I did the math and it would cost about 4 million USD to own a 51% controlling share in N1.

...gonna be a few years before I can afford that  :'(

[Bebpo]

That's why you start up a small company and propose a cash for stock merger at a set price

[magus]

maybe they will merge with someone else! i vote gust,they are cool,they get my approvation

[Bebpo]

fuck no. 

The reason they got into this mess in the first place (and took a hit on their image) was by associating themselves with the "little rpg devs" like Gust, Idea Factory, Hitmaker.  N1 is in a whole different league than those guys and they really shouldn't have published any of the other companies stuff in the first place.  I mean publishing a Hitmaker PS3 game?  Wtf were they thinking.  I just have this feeling on a "buddy" level N1 likes to stick with these guys because they were all in the same position back in the day.  But N1 has gotten out of the gaming gutter and it's like Bruce Wayne associating with his hobo friends.  I hate to be a dick but he should cut them off and hang with the big rollers instead.

[Third]

I've never played a NIS game. They looks so weird and archaic. And there are too many numbers on the screen.

[magus]

I've never played a NIS game. They looks so weird and archaic. And there are too many numbers on the screen.

oh they are quite simple,you kill stuff until you are level 4000 and then deals 34564527 of damage to anything that moves

[Bebpo]

duckroll says they actually didn't go public until 2007.

It seems like they did fine on their business model but then after the success in the USA they thought they could make more money by self-publishing in the US instead of licensing out to Atlus USA.  So they needed cash to form NIS (which turned out to be a horrible horrible company) and to BRANCH OUT BY PUBLISHING SHITTY GAMES FROM OTHER DEVELOPERS (also turned out horrible for them; Last Rebellion expectation = 30k sales, real sales = 3k).

If Atlus JPN bought them it wouldn't be so bad.  They'd ditch the shitty other dev publishing, close up NIS and just have ATLUS USA bring over their games, and everything would be good.
MS would be silly because MS has zero interest in niche <100k 2d games for X360.

[Mr. Gundam]

They really weren't worth ¥36,200 a share, were they? WERE THEY?

YES

http://beginnersinvest.about.com/cs/investing101/a/012903a.htm

I understand the stock market and the splitting of shares, etc. I'm still baffled that a puny little company like Nippon Ichi was trading at roughly $330 a share.

[Joe Molotov]

They've only issued two shares.

[demi]

And there are too many numbers on the screen.

THOSE NUMBERS CONFUSIN ME AS MUCH AS THEM WORDS I JUST DUN UNDERSTAND

[treythemovie]

This is very good. Bye bye crap games!

And hello crap anime! 

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-02-11/nis-america-licenses-toradora-as-its-first-anime

[Mr. Gundam]

This is very good. Bye bye crap games!

And hello crap anime! 

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-02-11/nis-america-licenses-toradora-as-its-first-anime

They're also going to release the Persona -Trinity Soul- anime...

[Bebpo]

Yeah, at this point I give up.  This is like jumping off the empire state building cutting your wrists and then shooting yourself before you hit the ground. 

[Mr. Gundam]

Yeah, at this point I give up.  This is like jumping off the empire state building cutting your wrists and then shooting yourself before you hit the ground. 

Pretty much.

[Mr. Gundam]

From Andria Sang:
http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2010/02/12/ps3_disgaea/

Posted Feb 12, 2010 at 23:43, By Anoop Gantayat

Nippon Ichi is having some big financial problems, and now expects to incur a loss of many zillions of dollars this next fiscal term.

Posted today at the Nippon Ichi corporate site as part of a earnings statement, the above visual promises a new PS3 entry in the Disgaea series as part of Nippon Ichi's strategy for the coming fiscal year.

The graph shows total shipments of the Disgaea series through the current fiscal year. Including Disgaea 1 through 3 and all related series, Nippon Ichi has sold 1.6 million Disgaea games. In the chart, blue indicates domestic sales and purple overseas sales.

The statement mentions a number of measures that Nippon Ichi plans on taking in order to recover.

It's aiming for a more focused lineup in the hopes of improving quality. For the year, the company plans 8 new game releases (the new Disgaea game included). Of these, six are original titles.

The statement blames externally developed titles as one of the reasons for a drop in quality. The company plans on decreasing its reliance on such titles greatly.

Finally, the company plans on targeting overseas markets. It will focus on the PlayStation 3 and North America.

Nippon Ichi's actual loss forecasts for the year, announced last week, aren't quite a zillion dollars, but are are still pretty high. While the company originally expected operating income of 30 million yen, it now expects an operating loss of 299 million yen. Sales are expected to reach 1,131 million yen, down from initial forecasts of 1,788 million yen.

[Bebpo]

The statement blames externally developed titles as one of the reasons for a drop in quality. The company plans on decreasing its reliance on such titles greatly.

good