No kidding, I think I'd want to start up a small company after buying up Psikyo and Takumi talent. Psikyo vs. Takumi: The Shooting would be the first release. Then Sengoku Ace 3, then some startlingly original games. Either that or Mars Matrix 2.MadSteelDarkness wrote: Donate? Pffft. If I'm ponying up millions, those fuckers are working for me.
GRRRRRRR!sven666 wrote:ofcourse buying the majority of r8zing would make more sense 8
And even make back some money. Which you can use to take out a full page ad in average gamer magazine explaining how to play it right. With pictures!Fighter17 wrote: You can port other shmup developer games onto different system, you can also release American PCBs of their games, and you can work together with some publishers.
Heck yeah.icycalm wrote:Would you consider donating 1 or 2 million of your money to them to keep making them? I mean, what is 1 or 2 million out of 156?
Actually, that's a bloody good idea too.Fighter17 wrote:Like I said before, start a publishing company.
You can port other shmup developer games onto different system, you can also release American PCBs of their games, and you can work together with some publishers.
Elvis wrote:I think training the next generation of game makers is just as important as funding the current generation.
Meh.Rob wrote:And even make back some money. Which you can use to take out a full page ad in average gamer magazine explaining how to play it right. With pictures!Fighter17 wrote: You can port other shmup developer games onto different system, you can also release American PCBs of their games, and you can work together with some publishers.
The possibilities: endless!
No it's not. All you need is a trading account at a Japanese firm. I believe there's an Etrade Japan even. Just gotta get an account. There might be some restrictions for non-citizens, and more for non-residents, but there are for any market. Most restrictions can be thanked to the good old US of A as well. They're very thorough in checking for offshore accounts. A friend opened an ETrade Singapore account, and said it was like getting checked for colon cancer.Buying Japanese stock (or a Japanese Company) for a non-Japanese is virtually impossible. I suppose that if you had 156 million dollars, you would have the connections to open some doors, but I think its against Japanese law for a non-Japanese to directly own Japanese stock. (I had a friend in Tokyo try to buy some stock for me and was told to do so directly was against the law.)
RegalSin wrote:New PowerPuff Girls. They all have evil pornstart eyelashes.
I am not sure about the Renault situation. I just wanted to buy a very modest amount of stock in some Japanese companies. I was told I could not directly own the stock because I was not a Japanese citizen.Limbrooke wrote:I'd like to then know how Renault managed to buy out Nissan a while back. Based on non-foreign investment in Japanese established companies allowance, that right there is clear indicator of the opposite, unless it had something to do with Bankrupty filling, or near of on behalf on Nissan.
Who exactly told you this? Rule number one though: Don't believe anyone...especially Japanese salarymen. I had my wife call to get the exact details on the world-wide income tax* which applies to foreigners living in Japan. She called the tax department of the ward office, to which they told her no such tax exists.I was told I could not directly own the stock because I was not a Japanese citizen.
RegalSin wrote:New PowerPuff Girls. They all have evil pornstart eyelashes.
I highly doubt that. There are strict anticompetative laws preventing such things. ESPECIALLY when someone as big as Microsoft attempt to take out the current industry leader and biggest competitor (check the sales figures - Nintendo are making a heck of a lot more money than both Microsoft and Sony who barely break even from their expensive console production).neorichieb1971 wrote:Nintendo were offered 25 billion dollars in the cube/xbox era by Microsoft. Nintendo declined the offer which was very generous. Bill Gates could of just bought all the stock in the company for 25 billion
Bill Gates verbally went on record stating the money was on the table if Nintendo wanted it. On the condition that Nintendo scrap the cube project. Hiroshi Yamauchi took it to the Nintendo board and it was rejected on the grounds that Microsoft would take the company in a direction it was not willing to take.elvis wrote:I highly doubt that. There are strict anticompetative laws preventing such things. ESPECIALLY when someone as big as Microsoft attempt to take out the current industry leader and biggest competitor (check the sales figures - Nintendo are making a heck of a lot more money than both Microsoft and Sony who barely break even from their expensive console production).neorichieb1971 wrote:Nintendo were offered 25 billion dollars in the cube/xbox era by Microsoft. Nintendo declined the offer which was very generous. Bill Gates could of just bought all the stock in the company for 25 billion
