Bandai Namco Holdings ADR (OTC:NCBDY) is facing internal shifts in its Japanese workforce following recent reports of project cancellations.  Despite a strong release from its latest anime-based game, Dragon Ball Z: Sparking! Zero, which sold over 3 million units within 24 hours, Bandai Namco Studios is reportedly cutting down on staff indirectly and halting multiple projects due to declining demand. Workforce Struggles And Voluntary Exits Accor…

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Inside Bandai Namco's Workforce Struggles: 100 Staff Members Quit During Project Overhauls - BANDAI NAMCO Hldgs (OTC:NCBDY), Nintendo Co (OTC:NTDOY)

Bandai Namco has cut games and staff (Bandai Namco) Bandai Namco has become the first Japanese publisher to lay off developers this year, although their approach is very different to Western companies. We’re still not at the end of the year and already over 13,000 people have lost their jobs in the video games industry in 2024. The reasons for this are many and complicated but the simplest explanation is that companies hired too many people duri…

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Amid workforce cuts.Bandai Namco Holdings — the conglomerate of which video game publisher and developer Bandai Namco Entertainment is a part — is reportedly making a swathe of cuts to its workforce, which includes cancelling or pausing a number of projects.According to a report by Bloomberg (paywalled), a Nintendo-commissioned project is among the cancelled titles, alongside games based on the anime properties One Piece and Naruto.Read the full…

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Bandai Namco has reportedly cancelled several titles and is cutting its workforce

VIDEO game publisher Bandai Namco Holdings is cutting its workforce after cancelling several titles due to lacklustre demand, according to people familiar with the matter.

Inside Bandai Namco's Workforce Struggles: 100 Staff Members Quit During Project Overhauls - BANDAI NAMCO Hldgs (OTC:NCBDY), Nintendo Co (OTC:NTDOY)

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