hmm...

[racketboy]

wow

hehe things change fast

either that or people don't give reliable news

 

[Tony Skyrunner]

Originally posted by racketboy@May 7, 2003 @ 09:44 PM

wow

hehe things change fast

either that or people don't give reliable news

:agree Now I'm really confused

 

[mtxblau]

When the rumours of Sega and Sammy merging came up, stocks went down. As soon as Sega and Namco was mentioned, the stocks went back up.

Most analysts think the Namco / Sega merger makes the most sense - they'd corner the diminishing arcade market and be formidable in the console market.

EDIT - Two days till the deadline, too.

 

[racketboy]

deadline?

 

[Mr. Moustache]

From: SEGA World Weekly

Over the past few weeks Sega has been making a choice on which of two companies to merge with. On one hand they had Namco, who would merge and develop everything under the "Sega" brand from then onwards. On the other hand they had Sammy, the maker of popular arcade games where the player can win prizes, and pinball machines. The president of Sammy would take over as the president of the new merged company, and while their games aren't as exciting as Namco's, Sammy is almost constantly making a nice profit.

No doubt after many shareholder meetings, Sega have announced that they intend to merge with Sammy. While Sega has a debt of 80 billion yen (US$674 million), Sammy has a value of 133 billion yen (US$1.1 billion). True, it's not as exciting to us gamers as a merge with Namco would have been, but it does help ensure a future to the company, and to the characters like Sonic the Hedgehog.

Sega will have finished their audit of Sammy's financial ecords before the May 9th deadline that Namco set, and after that the merger will move even further ahead.

 

[cww80]

Originally posted by racketboy@May 7, 2003 @ 10:55 PM

deadline?

http://www.gamespot.com/all/news/news_6026451.html

 

[racketboy]

well I guess it's back to only MS and EA rumors.

 

[Nadius]

namco withdraws

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?t...storyID=2704903

 

[ratfish]

Woh, it's the war of the news posts!

Here's my rendition of what happened at the SEGA/Sammy/Namco merger conferences (translated from Japanese of course):

Yu Suzuki: Greetings gentlemen, and welcome to the new SEGA headquarters, located 1,000 meters below the earth's crust. Hopefully we can now get down to business. As you know, SEGA has decided, because of strong market loss, to choose another company to merge with. We have brought you here today because you have been selected by us, after a rigorous search for the perfect company to merge with.

Sammy representative: Sammy is honored to be chosen by SEGA.

Namco representative: Namco is also honored to be chosen by the most honorable SEGA.

Yu: Perfect. Now, you must fight to the death, and SEGA will merge with the last standing person. BEGIN!

Sammy: Prepare to die!

Namco: AIEYIEYIEYIEYAAAAHHH!!!

DOUBLE KO!