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List of all video game franchises by Bandai Namco Holdings
Bandai Namco Holdings is a Japanese holdings company, based in
Tokyo , that specializes in
video games ,
anime ,
toys ,
arcades and
amusement parks .
[1] The company was formed following the merger of
Bandai and
Namco on 29 September 2005, with both companies' assets being merged into a single corporate entity.
[2] The core video game branch of the company is
Bandai Namco Entertainment , formerly called Namco Bandai Games, which develops games for
home consoles ,
arcades and
mobile phones internationally. Bandai Namco is best known for its video game franchises;
Pac-Man is its highest-grossing franchise with over US$12.8 billion by 2016,
[3] while
Tekken is its best-selling franchise with over 49 million copies across multiple platforms.
[4] By the late 2010s, Bandai Namco was the largest toy company by revenue and the eighth-largest video game company.
[5]
[6]
Bandai Namco owns former developer
Banpresto , which operates as a toy company in Japan and was purchased in 2006,
[7] and acquired a 95% stake in
D3 Publisher in 2009.
[8] The company owns the video game assets of defunct developer BEC, which merged with Banpresto in 2011 to form
B.B. Studio .
[9] Bandai Namco also owns the video game rights to several anime licenses, notably
Dragon Ball ;
[10] in this instance, the first entry for these franchises will list the first game developed or published by Bandai Namco or a subsidiary company, even if the series did not begin at that time.
Franchises
See also
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