Tales of Studio in debt.

[Tobi]

The site is in JP, but:

http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/4784/talesstudio.png

http://blog.esuteru.com/archives/516469.html

http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/4784/talesstudio.png

[MF Perm tha Fineass]

maybe if they make a good game they'll be out of debt

[BadKarma]

maybe if they make a good game they'll be out of debt

Inb4 Domon

[Kurokikaze]

I thought Tales of Vesperia was a great game and did well. :X

[Tobi]

Instead of only releasing ToV on X360, they should have released it on both PS3 and Xbox at least, instead of localization on xbox, and JP onri for PS3. I feel it would have been alot better if it was Multi-Plat from the start, or maybe just kept it on PS3 from start.

[Parshias]

They might try releasing some of their games outside of Japan. I hear people buy video games out there.

[Tits]

They might try releasing some of their games outside of Japan. I hear people buy video games out there.

QFT

[Fhloston]

Hopefully an English article will be up soon. Have a couple of friends always bragging how much better the Tales Of games are than the FF series, will be funny to see their reactions.

Not slamming the series though since I have never played myself. I've heard it's pretty good. >_>;

[sruon]

SE would have been bankrupt long ago if it wasn't for XI.

Tales of games are great, I'm hoping for an english article soon that will explain what's going on.

[Antithesis]

They might try releasing some of their games outside of Japan. I hear people buy video games out there.

Maybe they will try to advertise too.

[Elcura]

Why am I not surprised?

[Xno Kappa]

They'll probably just stop pumping them out like an RPG Madden.

[Xno Kappa]

Because Tales of Legendia was pretty freaking terrible.

[Kyo]

SE would have been bankrupt long ago if it wasn't for XI.

lol

[Antithesis]

Seems like SankakuComplex (lol) already published an article:

Tales Studio Near Bankruptcy – Tales Series Doomed?

Tales Studio, the Namco Bandai subsidiary responsible for the long running Tales series of RPGs, has been revealed to be in dire financial straits.

The company is 100% privately held by Namco Bandai, so its public reporting of accounts is limited, but what it has published recently is none too promising:

These figures essentially show an annual loss of 1 million dollars and an accumulated debt of 21 million dollars, exceeding their total assets – the company will either go bankrupt, “restructure,” or go cap in hand to Bandai bosses begging for more cash based on promises of future success – which may be problematic considering the size of the loss they are dealing with themselves.

An alternative might be a re-absorption into Namco Bandai, although this would not guarantee any success in actually tackling the decline of the franchise.

Even amongst Japanese RPGs the Tales series stands out as being devoid of innovation and consisting of little more than an interminable series of rehashes, remakes and spin-offs. Whether the company’s decline can be arrested before bankruptcy or dissolution seems doubtful considering its parent company is hardly managed any better.

(NSFW) http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2010/0...series-doomed/

[Insanecyclone]

Bring the 2nd Tales of game on psp to NA and Vesperia ps3 to NA and money will roll in. I'll buy both in a heartbeat.

[Charismatic]

No commercials in the west, half the games (possibly even more, really) not released in the west.
No surprise there.


bad business decisions = losses

[BRP]

No commercials in the west, half the games (possibly even more, really) not released in the west.
No surprise there.


bad business decisions = losses

I was about to say this. They don't seem to want american money.

[Antithesis]

Filthy gaijin money. It means nothing to them.

[Gekii]

No commercials in the west, half the games (possibly even more, really) not released in the west.
No surprise there.


bad business decisions = losses

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