Tales Studio being fully absorbed by Namco Bandai

[jkipp82]

Tales of Absorption? Tales of Dissolution?

Namco Bandai announced this morning that it plans to absorb the Namco Tales Studio, producers of the company's successful Tales series, on January 1, 2012. No reason was given for the move.

The Tales Studio is a wholly owned subsidiary of Namco Bandai formed in 1986 as Wolf Team, changing its name in 2003 when Namco became the majority shareholder. It has since been the lead studio of the publisher's flagship RPG series.

It's not like Namco Bandai is planning to get out of the Tales business, since the publisher just raised its financial forecast based on the success of Tales of Xillia.

[CloudStrife7x]

i really hope they will release Tales of Xillia in North America, good share jkipp :)

[Paprika]

i really hope they will release Tales of Xillia in North America, good share jkipp :)

yeah ditto after getting into the tales series so recently (Vesperia) I really enjoyed its style and system,

[BurstFired]

if they do not release ToX in america i would seriously consider moving to a different country. Why? because thats just what people like me do. Good day.

[Original Boss]

I really loved tales of vesperia some may think its a bit childish but i like games like that plus the anime/cartoon style games are always great to look at especially if your a fan of anime such as myself

[longy999]

I'll be happy if they just release some more Tales games on the 360, Vesperia was awesome and is so far my favourite RPG game. There seems to be a couple more games in the pipelines but nothing for 360 :-(

[Serious_M]

Tales of the ending ? LOL

[Paprika]

I really loved tales of vesperia some may think its a bit childish but i like games like that plus the anime/cartoon style games are always great to look at especially if your a fan of anime such as myself

People who say it's childish has not played it and judging it by its anime style graphics. For a JRPG game it was quite dark (That politician Yuri killed is first to come to mind) and quite mature in its handling.