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Gashapon (ガシャポン), also called gachapon (ガチャポン), is a kind of vending machine-dispensed capsule toy manufactured and sold by Bandai. It originated in the 1960s [ 1 ] and is popular in Japan.
Bandai Spirits Co., Ltd. [a] is a Japanese toy manufacturer based in Minato, Tokyo, owned by Bandai, a subsidiary of Bandai Namco Holdings.The company manufactures and distributes toys and collectibles mainly aimed at adults, such as the Banpresto and Tamashii Nations brands, B-Train and plastic models such as Gunpla among others, which before 2018, were previously handled by Bandai as well as ...
Gacha games are video games that implement the gashapon mechanic. Gashapon is a type of a Japanese vending machine in which people insert a coin to acquire a random toy capsule. In gacha games, players pay virtual currency (bought with real money or acquired in-game) to acquire random game characters or pieces of equipment of varying rarity and ...
Bandai is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bandai Namco Holdings and heads its parent's Toy and Hobby Content Strategic Business Unit (CSBU). Bandai is among the largest and most profitable toy companies worldwide, alongside Hasbro and Mattel. The company focuses on creating unique and innovative products for its consumers, and to bend established ...
Bandai Namco Holdings Inc. [a] (commonly known as Bandai Namco [b] and formerly Namco Bandai until 2015, also known as Bandai Namco Group, [4]) is a Japanese mass media and entertainment conglomerate founded in 2005 by the merger of Namco and Bandai. The company specializes in toys, video games, arcades, anime, restaurants, and amusement parks. [5]
Bandai Namco is best known for its video game franchises; Pac-Man is its highest-grossing franchise with over US$12.8 billion by 2016, [3] while Tekken is its best-selling franchise with over 49 million copies across multiple platforms. [4] By the late 2010s, Bandai Namco was the largest toy company by revenue and the eighth-largest video game ...
[22] [23] Banpresto became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Namco Bandai Holdings upon the formation of Namco Bandai Games, [24] however the merge had little effect on the company itself. [22] The company reported considerable financial success following the merge in April, as its net income forecast exceeded the expected ¥ 1.6 billion to ¥ 2.1 ...
Namco Bandai Studios' headquarters in Shinagawa, Tokyo from April 2012 to 2015. It shared the building with both Namco Bandai Games and Namco Bandai Holdings.. Established on March 31, 2006, Namco Bandai Games was the amalgamation of Namco and Bandai's video game development operations being merged and consolidated into one company.