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Sega Merges With Pachinko Company Sammy

Posted by timothy on from the such-nice-names dept.

conform writes "The New York Times reported today that Sega Corporation (the Japanese parent company) has merged with Sammy Corp, a vendor of pachinko machines. The Sammy side of things are expected to dominate post-merger operations, and will likely shift Sega operational focuses back to the arcade market. Also, the end of the article notes in passing that SquareSoft has been aquired by rival RPG manufacturer Enix."

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  1. Re:Arcade Dead? by johny_qst · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I definitely do not agree that the arcade is dead. Are you familiar with how popular arcades and plinko arcades are in japan? Do you realize that there are countries other than the USA that are consumers of such machines? Maybe to slashdot the endnote about square merging with enix is bigger news, but arcades are far from dead.

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  2. Re:Does anyone care-not spam bate on purpose by amuro98 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, and you won't see those expensive machines in the arcades either...

    At least around here, the only arcades that are left are:

    * Dave & Busters - if you convert your credits back into $$$, you'll find you're paying $.50+ for most of their mis-maintained games.

    * Nickel City - Cheap old arcade games! Yay. Overrun by rugrats! Boo.

    * Putt Putt/go-kart places - A few newer machines, most $.50/game.

    * Sony Metereon - $2 to play DDR. No. No thank you.

    Arcades as I knew them from the 80s and 90s are dead. I used to pump $10, even $20 into machines, but why do that now? $20 will *buy* you some pretty good games, regardless of what machine you've got at home. And now with online play, there's even less reason to go to the arcades where you could play an online game for $3-7/session...