QuoteNamco Bandai has emerged as Japan's most powerful games company in this year's edition of Toyo Keizai's Corporate Power Ranking list. Nintendo has taken a large tumble down the rankings, however.
It follows Nintendo's shares tumbling 18% after it announced a projected profit loss.
Here's a shortlist of where the key game companies appeared among the list, which spans all industries:
126th – Namco Bandai – Last year's position: 442nd
157th – Broccoli – Last year's position: not ranked
173rd – Nihon Falcom – Last year's position: 215th
292nd – Sony – Last year's position: 163rd
318th – Capcom – Last year's position: 701st
363rd – Sega – Last year's position: 133rd
363rd – Marvelous AQL – Last year's position: not ranked
390th – Tecmo Koei – Last year's position: 451st
567th – Konami – Last year's position: 355th
1647th – Nintendo – Last year's position: 219th
QuotePositions are determined by a company's growth, profitability, safety and scale, with a score of between 500 and 1000 determined for each category. The sum then decides a company's final ranking. The list features 2,000 companies in total.
Well Nintendo did make some risky moves lately, but I would've never expected such a huge fall.
It only takes 1.
Quote from: Hakudamashi on January 20, 2014, 06:10:49 AM
It only takes 1.
It only takes 1 Iwata.
Nintendo fell over 1000 positions while Namco Bandai went up like a rocket.
Nintendo's shares also fell about 18% after announcing another quarterly loss.
Other companies that fell hard as well are Capcom, Konami and Sega.
All three suffered from dissapointing sales.
Meanwhile Sony and Tecmo Koei made up some ranks with hit releases like the PS4 and/or Dynasty Warriors 8 as well as successful reconstructing in both companies.
To be fair, while Nintendo's shares did reach as low as an 18% drop they ultimately ended up with only a 6% drop at the end of trading. Bad, but not as bad.