Namco Bandai Shifts Video Game Development to Japan After Flops
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Namco Bandai Holdings Inc., creator of the “Tekken” and “Ridge Racer” video games, will shift the development of new titles back to Japan after half of its software was unprofitable last year.
“We found the quality and development speed of titles made for us by the overseas studios to be lacking,” President Shukuo Ishikawa said in an interview in Tokyo yesterday. “Foreign studios can still propose and develop games, but our Japanese staff will control the process more closely.”