Tekken and Pac-Man owners Bandai Namco announce major restructure with investment from Sony

Also soon to merchantability a workplace to Nintendo

Change is afoot astatine Bandai Namco Holdings. They've announced a company-wide restructuring effort that extends from their film, artifact and arcade lines to their videogame label, Bandai Namco Entertainment, owners of Pac-Man, Tekken, Soulcalibur, and Ace Combat, among others.

Effective from 1st April – no, I don't deliberation this is simply a precise aboriginal April Fool's joke, it's a fiscal twelvemonth happening – the reshuffle volition impact "personnel changes astatine the departmental caput level", successful the words of AnimeNewsNetwork.

Osamu Sarudate from the Bandai Namco Entertainment NE accumulation section portion 1 volition go enforcement serviceman of the paper concern division, portion the paper concern division's wide manager Koji Tezuka is taking implicit the Gundam division, and Yuzuke Minagawa is present enforcement serviceman of the CX parkland concern division. The institution are besides renaming oregon re-organising respective departments and divisions.

As ANN recap, Sony agreed past twelvemonth to bargain 16 cardinal shares successful Bandai Namco for astir $464.5 cardinal - 2.5% of the company. Nintendo, meanwhile, announced successful November past twelvemonth that they would instrumentality implicit Bandai Namco Studios Singapore successful a stock transportation agreement. BNSS are a enactment workplace who worked with Nintendo connected the caller Kirby Air Riders.

Bandai Namco are among the companies who've chopped backmost successful the aftermath of the Covid stay-at-home roar period. They got escaped of implicit 100 unit successful the play April 2024 to February 2025, having cancelled respective games successful February 2024. In October that way, it was reported that absorption had fundamentally forced unit to discontinue by moving them into rooms wherever they had thing to do. So far, nary layoffs person been announced successful the people of this week's projected restructuring.