The major Japanese publishers have been talking consolidation amongst themselves for over a year now. At first I thought a Square-Namco union would be the first move, but it seems Square managed to gain the favor of Enix and of course jumped at that instead.
Well, it looks like talk of a Square-Enix merger has finally prompted Konami to make its move on Namco. A new Konami-Namco union into a "KoNAMco" of sorts should be formed in partial reaction to this.
The resultant merged entities from Enix/Square and from Konami/Namco would then be two, decently strong Japanese publishers. Between these two new companies, they will hold a sizable percentage of the market. I can see them fairing well against and also complementing each other pretty well. Sometime down the road, in the future, I wouldn't be too surprised to see the two allying and then perhaps merging all together into one company eventually.
Well, it looks like talk of a Square-Enix merger has finally prompted Konami to make its move on Namco. A new Konami-Namco union into a "KoNAMco" of sorts should be formed in partial reaction to this.
The resultant merged entities from Enix/Square and from Konami/Namco would then be two, decently strong Japanese publishers. Between these two new companies, they will hold a sizable percentage of the market. I can see them fairing well against and also complementing each other pretty well. Sometime down the road, in the future, I wouldn't be too surprised to see the two allying and then perhaps merging all together into one company eventually.
