Comment on Bandai Namco to shut down Reflector Entertainment
paultimate14@lemmy.world 1 day agoBandai Namco bought this studio in 2020. It’s been over 6 years. In that time period (and, in fact, the entire history of this studio), Reflector produced one (1) game. Which was a pretty terrible flop.
I get it. I hate to see stuff like Microsoft buying up a ton of studios and then shutting them down, even after they make successful games like Hi-Fi Rush. In cases like that it definitely seems like the bug corporation is more interested in eliminating potential competition than actually creating new products. But sometimes a studio is just actually bad and needs to be liquidated.
Katana314@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I might argue that 6 years isn’t a tremendous amount of time for a company. Given those failures, it could be that it’s still better for the publisher to stop paying the studio’s losses, but still let anything left go to general auction. Yes, a poor break for the company, but that would be the loss accrued from a bad buyout.
That would mean that buyout/slash isn’t a viable method to gain someone’s patents, or kill competition.