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

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

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…

Nintendo, One Piece, and Naruto games cancelled as Bandai Namco cuts staff

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…

Report: Bandai Namco To Cut Staff And Ax Multiple Games Based Off 'Naruto' And 'One Piece' Amid $144 Million Write Off

Bandai Namco is reportedly axing multiple games including those featuring characters from Naruto and One Piece amid a $144 million write off across its company. Bloomberg’s Takashi Mochizuki reported that these cuts are primarily hitting the company’s mobile game development, “Smartphone and online games have born the brunt of cooled sentiment, forcing Bandai Namco to […] The post Report: Bandai Namco To Cut Staff And Ax Multiple Games Based Off…

New One Piece, Naruto Games Reportedly Canceled by Bandai Namco

Some unannounced games in the worlds of One Piece and Naruto have supposedly been either paused or canceled entirely amid some larger shakeups at Bandai Namco, according to new reports. It’s been suggested that work on these unknown games is uncertain at the moment due to a underwhelming demand, and the games in flux apparently extend beyond anime titles, too, with a Nintendo project currently on hold at Bandai Namco as well. News of the state o…

Bandai Namco Reportedly Cancels Nintendo Project And Other Games

Bandai Namco may be the latest big gaming company to face cutbacks. According to a new report by Bloomberg, the Japanese publisher behind the fresh hit Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero, which sold 3 million copies in its first day,recently canceled a project it was working on for Nintendo, as well as other internal games,…Read more...

Bandai Namco Cancels Unannounced Nintendo Project Amidst Layoffs and Restructuring

This cancellation is particularly intriguing because it involves a project directly commissioned by Nintendo. Bandai Namco has a history of successful collaborations with Nintendo, including titles like “Super Smash Bros. for 3DS/Wii U” and “Pokkén Tournament.” The canceled project’s nature remains shrouded in mystery, leaving fans to speculate about what kind of game it could have been. Was it a new IP, a revival of a classic series, or perhaps…