Nacon Declares Insolvency, Leaving Titles and Hardware Under Threat

[Famine]

This is the discussion thread for an article on GTPlanet:

Nacon Declares Insolvency, Leaving Titles and Hardware Under Threat​

French developer, publisher, and gaming hardware manufacturer Nacon appears to be in dire straits, as what was an evolving financial crisis at the company and its parent has rapidly escalated today...

 

[kjb]

Wow. I wonder if EA get back the WRC license or will Milestone get it? I know it is still early but wow. I guess we have to see how things play out. I do think we will see more game companies scale back on the scale of their 3A games. Gameplay and story should be the main goals not picture perfect graphics

 

[Johnny Caisse]

I wonder who would get TDU Solar Crown License if it gets transferred.

 

[MroczMR]

I wonder who would get TDU Solar Crown License if it gets transferred.

There is not much racing game studios left to be honest.

 

[Ryan81]

Looks like they've been sticking their fingers in too many pies....Become too greedy.

 

[mekonrider]

They seemed to pretty much just output slop anyway.

 

[GBalao888]

I wonder who would get TDU Solar Crown License if it gets transferred.

Genki

 

[Miroku]

Genki

Nah....if they do more stuff it will be Tokyo Xtreme Drift series.

 

[Tomo 427-MS]

Would be great if by some miracle Eden Games had another crack at it with budget and time.

 

[lancia delta hf]

I wonder who would get TDU Solar Crown License if it gets transferred.

Would be a good title for milestone to pick up.

 

[MroczMR]

I had a worring thought recently.

Maybe I am panicking a bit, but it feels like there are less and less game studios focused on racing games.

First was sony closong evolution studios amd studio liverpool

EA getting their hands on Codemasters, which endded up as F1 studio only scraping all great brands they made from rally games, grid etc

Then EA pulled the plug from Need For Speed franchise

Then Turn 10 bearly exist now with Forza Motorsport on hold

Now Nancon is also close to being shut down

Srill we don’t know how Straight 4 will recover after PmR fiasco amd Rennsport devs after their game fail

Those who remained and for now are pretty safe are Polyphony, Playground games, ivory tower, kunos, reiza, iracing team, raceroom team and milestone. That is worrying i think…

 

[m355y]

Nacon never did themselves any favours with their PR and attitude towards their customers that’s for sure. But we need dedicated racing game studios, or else what are we actually going to talk about on here? The weather? Hopefully they survive this.

 

[Fezzik]

Traxion says it is pushed back to May.

 

[Famine]

We’re postponing NACON Connect.

 

[Carpocalypse]

On steam, most of the titles are 75 - 90% off, if you're looking for a time to pickup the WRC games or something, now's the time.