Tecmo to Merge with Koei

Filed in archive News on September 6, 2008

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One hot item of news from the past week was Tecmo's possible merger with Dynasty Warriors developer Koei. 1up editor James Mielke hates the move, and seems to think it will devalue all of Tecmo's intellectual property by serving them up as endless spinoffs and "me-too" sequels. This, of course, is because of the Dynasty Warriors problem- that game is everywhere, with about 1000 sequels on the market.

However, the tidbit that is most interesting to Wii fans is news regarding the Rygar game they were porting to Wii. Way back in 2002, Tecmo developed a action adventure version of their 8 bit classic Rygar for the PS2. They budgeted $500,000 to port it to Wii, but it went so badly that they ended up spending triple that. If they were really gonna spend a 1.5 million, why not make something that Wii owners actually want, like maybe a WiiWare 2D Rygar game? Or maybe just save your money and, you know, not need to be bailed out by other companies!